Hi,

You can just use “put” for the first file, then “append” for the other 2.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.

Another option – if the files are all in the same folder/directory, you can also do an “mput” or “mget” with wildcards.

Bob

Bobkberg, I did the mget and it worked. However, now I am faced with this: the files are still separate, it does not concatenate them. So I am now wondering how to concat them once they are on our IBM mainframe. I can’t find a way to use a wildcard for the concat. I have tried to use a sort in the JCL with a wildcard but I cannot make that work. In this situation, I will never know each file name or how many there are. But the folder they are in on the ftp server will hold only those files and they will all have similar names, with a number appended, so wildcard would be great. Just can’t figure out how to make it work. Any suggestions? Please? Thank you very much for anything! BrookR

Hi,
You could try making a small batch file to run on the PC to concatenate the files before you ftp them. Something like this :-

copy filea.*+fileb.*+filec.* ftpfile.txt

This should copy the 3 files to one file called ftpfile.txt which you can then ftp to your server.
I would make a batch file like this :-

copy filea.*+fileb.*+filec.* ftpfile.txt
(run your ftp script here to send ftpfile.txt to your server)
del /Q filea.*
del /Q fileb.*
del /Q filec.*
del /Q ftpfile.old
ren ftpfile.txt ftpfile.old

Then I keep a copy of the last concatenated file.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.

Hi,

You may need to add /B in the copy command to avoid the copy adding an end of file character.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.