| How To Pass the Real Data Set Name To The FTP Server: Please note that your FTP client always passes, or suggests, a server-side data set name with its GETs and PUTs requests. The server may ignore the client-suggested name or may actually honor it! It all depends on the view type: SAM & VSAM Specific views: The server ignores the client-suggested name because the real data set name is hard-coded in the view (i.e., admin coded TGT_FILE statement). Therefore, the user does not have, nor allowed, to pass a server-side real data set name with his GETs and PUTs. SAM & VSAM Shell Views: The server honors the client-suggested name (i.e., interprets it to mean the real data set name). The user can pass, and therefore point the shell view to, a real data set name in two ways, or methods: 1. Specify the real name with your GETs and PUTs. 2. Make the real name look like a subdirectory (i.e., modify your path). Either method can be acomplished with line-mode and GUI clients. However, I find that the first method is more convenient with line-mode clients, while the second method is more convenient with GUI clients. SAM VTOC and VSAM CATALOG views: The server honors the client-suggested name (i.e., interprets it to mean the real data set name) as long as the client-suggested name is within the confines of the MASK associated with the view. |