The "27 bytes received" appear to be the list, which consists of just
the one filename. So plain get could work, specifying the filename on
the 3K. Also, can't you specify the high level qualifiers in the ftp
user id profile, so that you could get the file without specifying those
high level qualifiers in the name, just as you do not specify YRE?

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>From:  [log in to unmask][SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Wednesday, February 11, 1998 5:59 PM
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       [HP3000-L] HP to IBM FTP question
>
>[log in to unmask] said:
>> I need some help in resolving an FTP file transfer from a Big iron PDS
>> member to HP using
>> mget:
>> Remote system type is MVS.
>> ftp> MGET 'XYZ.NEWPDS.PDS(AA1000X)'
>> 125 List started OK.
>> 27 bytes received in 0.04 seconds (0.71 Kbytes/sec)
>> mget 'YRE.XYZ.NEWPDS.PDS(AA1000X)'?
><snip>
>Since you can't give a destination file name with 'mget', FTP tries to
>create a file with the same name ('YRE.XYZ.NEWPDS.PDS(AA1000X)'), which
>starts with a nonalphbetic character (the "'"). I don't know how you can
>specify a legal MPE (or POSIX) file name for this mget command. The only
>other option is to 'get' each file and supply a legal file name as the
>destination.
><snip>