Don Paterwic asks: > Does the ibm need to be told to allocate > space to me? Yes, that is exactly what I have to do. I log on over an ISDN line to the MVS machine, preallocate the files, check my directories, then logoff, return to my MPE/iX session, and put the files with FTP. Works like a charm. I've never tried to send a file without preallocating it on the MVS ... but if you've got a way of setting file attributes to whatever your MVS application expects, I can't see why that wouldn't work. Ron [log in to unmask]