Use symbolic parameter in FTP.

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Keval Mehta
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Use symbolic parameter in FTP.

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Hi,
As per one of the requirement I need to pass symbolic parameters to the FTP parm-member using a JCL step. Is this possible for a FTP, can someone please say an examlpe?

Thanks
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Re: Use symbolic parameter in FTP.

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What release of z/OS is running at your site?  z/OS 2.1 (and I believe 1.13) supports use of symbolic parameters in in-stream data sets; I don't know if this capability extends to parameter members.

The general solution used for what you asked is to write a program in the language of your choice (even DFSORT or SYNCSORT) to create the required FTP commands in a data set, then use that data set as input to FTP in the next job step.
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Re: Use symbolic parameter in FTP.

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We are using z/OS 2.1. Thanks for the steps. I shall work on it, we have another similar requirement.
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