I'm wondering how well this software works with the IBM mainframe. I connected to it with the lftp command line program and issued an SYST command and it came back with:
215 MVS is the operating system of this server. FTP Server is running on z/OS.
I'm both uploading and downloading files.
Question 1: I think that the files that I'm downloading are in EBCDIC so if I set the FTPTransferType to ASCII will I get the files in ascii? Or is that the responsibility of the ftp server and not the client?
Question 2: Before uploading I'm issuing the command
quote site file=seq lrecl=130 recfm=fb tracks primary=5 secondary=10 blksize=13000
Presumably this should still work with FTPClient.quote(), right?
Question 3: The remote file name has to be in single quotes; e.g., FTPClient.put("localPath", "'remote.path.x.y.z'"); note that in the remote path there are single quotes inside the double quotes. Presumably this should also work just fine?
The history of my software is that originally I was using Jakarta Apache Commons Net but then our IBM server adopted the requirement for secure connections so at that time I kludged my software to generate its output into /tmp and then I upload it using lftp. I'm rewriting it and would like to get back to doing it all within my java code.
Thanks
