FTP Tips

Dumps, logs and other supporting information may be uploaded to our FTP server to provide additional information for our support engineers. Here are some useful tips:

  • Direct your preferred FTP client application to ftp.netex.com (or 66.173.31.179).
  • Login with the user name "anonymous" (a password is not required - your IP address will be logged).
  • Directory listings are not available.
  • Change to the "uploads" directory (cd uploads). For HyperIP issues, cd uploads/hyperip; for NESiGate issues, cd uploads/nesigate.
  • NetEx requests that users refrain from using spaces or other special characters in any file names. NetEx recommends alphanumeric characters, periods, dashes, and underscore characters only.
  • Use the PUT command to upload the file to a name that can help identify your site and problem. E.g., "customername.h211err911.dump" or "ticketnumber.product.log". (Normally, dumps and other formatted files should be sent in binary mode, text files in ASCII mode. You will NOT be able to see the files in this directory. DO NOT rename NESiGate or HyperIP dump files.)
  • Note the file name in the problem report form or in your email or phone call to NetEx Support.

Preparing z/OS Files for Upload with FTP

This procedure uses the capabilities of TSO TRANSMIT/RECEIVE. We request that customers prepare and send the data to our upload server in this manner so that the expected original file characteristics can be maintained.

  1. Use the TSO TRANSMIT command to allocate a new dataset and convert the original dataset format.

    2. The TRANSMIT command will use default DCB characteristics for the created dataset and will set the LRECL to 80, the BLKSIZE to 3120, and the RECFM to FB. It is important to maintain known dataset characteristics so that when the dataset is received, it can be reconstructed correctly.

  2. Use TSO TRANSMIT to convert the original dataset (nodename is the system name and your TSO ID name):
    3. TRANSMIT nodename.userid DSNAME(original) OUTDATASET(new DSN)
  3. Transmit the new dataset to the dump server location as a binary file using the FTP procedure above.