by Robert Sample » Sun Dec 06, 2015 8:50 pm
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.
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.