UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

Request Unix gurus to kindly share a script which FTPs multiple files from Unix to a Mainframe GDG.

The script should check for oldest file named as 'abc*.txt' in a directory '/dir/child'. FTP that file to MF, then remove the file from unix and then look for the next oldest file to be sent.

Dont know abt syntax and logic but this is what I want

while (ls -tr abc* | head -1)
{
FILENAME = $(ls -tr /dir/child/abc*.txt | head -1)
#more commands to send the file through FTP to Mainframe
rm /dir/child/$FILENAME
}

thanks
DSR

Hi,
I am not sure if it is possible to create gdgs from unix. We run jobs on the Mainframe side that get files from a ftp server and load them into a GDG, but that is one file at a time and the name is fixed. I have read where you can create JCL on Unix, place it in a file and then "submit" or transfer it to the Mainframe to be ran. You of course would have to have security on the Mainframe side to do this. Here are a couple of links that might be of interest.
z/Journal - The Resource for Users of IBM Mainframe Systems

Using FTP to Access MVS and Unix - NIU - Information Technology Services