Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

[quote="Robert Sample"]Nobody has ever said, that I have seen, that you cannot initiate an FTP from the PC to the mainframe (even pulling data from the mainframe) -- that works everyday for many people. The issue is when you want to initiate an FTP from the mainframe to the PC. The receiving machine (the PC in this case) MUST be an FTP server for this to work -- and few, if any, desktop PC computers are set up as FTP servers. It requires the PC to execute specialized server software that is not installed on a normal desktop (or laptop) build.[/quote]
That's an eye opener and hit it on the head. Thanks. For the answer.

Nobody has ever said, that I have seen, that you cannot initiate an FTP from the PC to the mainframe (even pulling data from the mainframe) -- that works everyday for many people. The issue is when you want to initiate an FTP from the mainframe to the PC. The receiving machine (the PC in this case) MUST be an FTP server for this to work -- and few, if any, desktop PC computers are set up as FTP servers. It requires the PC to execute specialized server software that is not installed on a normal desktop (or laptop) build.

because when You issue the FTP command from Your pc You are the client

I read some topics here and over the net which suggests that for FTP from mainframe to PC, PC should be configured as FTP server but I have never faced this issue. All the companies I worked allowed issuing FTP commands from the windows command prompt. And I was able to get data in PC. Then why everyone talks about the restriction for PC to be set up as FTP server?