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About FTP Connection

Profile

The z/OS name profile is a name that you assign to your FTP Connection. The properties for each Remote System connection are saved under this name for easy access. The name can be up to twelve (12) characters long.

Choose an existing name from the drop-down list, or create a new name. To create a new name type the new name next to "z/OS name:" and it will be saved when you connect.

FTP site

FTP site is your TCP/IP address or the Domain Name of your z/OS FTP session.

Port number

Port number is the port number that JAVA uses on your local system. JAVA Port is 21. It cannot be changed.

TSO user

TSO User for signing into TSO on z/OS.

Password

TSO User password for signing on.

Codeset

Codeset is the character set/encoding that remote FTP on z/OS uses for data transmission.

FTP server translates mainframe files to the selected Codeset before sending it to Client. Pay special attention to the Codeset in use as it impacts the content of the received files.

Choose an option from the drop-down list. The default is the default of your local System, usually ASCII (Cp1252 subset of UTF-8 Uni Code).

Detect nonprintable

Check this box if you want FTP Client to detect potential non-printable characters when transferring files in ASCII.

When this box is checked, a message will inform you if bad characters exist in the file being transferred.

When this box is unchecked, files will be transferred without checking for valid characters.

Encrypted Connection(TLS)

Check this box if you want to encrypt FTP sessions and data transfer.

When this box is checked, transmission between the z/OS Server and the local client FTP server is encrypted.

When this box is unchecked, transmission between the z/OS FTP server and the Client server is not encrypted.

Caution with files that contain non-printable hex values

Proceed with caution. The files will be corrupted if you receive or send files that contain bad values. Example: File will be corrupted if the file contains hex values that FTP cannot translate from EBCDIC to ASCII.