I have one word..... SAMBA


Rick Clark
Senior Analyst
WW&R
Cleveland, Ohio


Francisco H Tapia wrote:
>
> Hello List,
> I've been reading this list for a short time, however,
> I need your help.  You see we have an HP3000 here on site and there is a dowload
> that occurs at about 5am everymorning but to get the file from the HP to our lan
> we need to have our SYSTEMS guy do this, well for security reasons he has not
> granted us access to the server were we could go download this data ourselves.
> I figure that MPEX is not very similar to UNIX but could there be a way to get
> READ rights to one directory and so we could go in and copy the 2 files we need
> and not have read to any other part of the system?
>
> OR
>
> (this would be IDEAL)
> the MPEX system would invoke FTP and send the file to our LAN without user
> interuption?
>
> I just don't know how to write the JCL script for this... if it IS possible,
> please let me know Our system guy has said it is not.
>
> Our systems guy has to do the transfer himself and well, he usually doesn't get
> it done till 6:30 to 7am we have a meeting at 8 and well this only gives us 1
> hour to complete updating our Excel/Access tools and to analyze the data.  this
> is not very effecient.  if he is out we are out of luck and will have to do the
> updating manually via typing in the report we get printed every morning....
>
> thanks,
> Just trying to simplify the morning! :)
> Francisco
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