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Download Files to Mainframe through a PC

If you download pax or zip files from CA Support Online to your PC, use this procedure to upload the pax file from your PC to your z/OS USS directory.

Follow these steps:

  1. Follow the procedures in How the Pax-Enhanced ESD Download Works to download the product pax or zip file to your PC. If you download a zip file, first unzip the file to use the product pax files.

    The pax or zip file resides on your PC.

  2. Open a Windows command prompt.

    The command prompt appears.

  3. Customize and enter the FTP commands with the following changes:
    1. Replace mainframe with the z/OS system's IP address or DNS name.
    2. Replace userid with your z/OS user ID.
    3. Replace password with your z/OS password.
    4. Replace C:\PC\folder\for\thePAXfile with the location of the pax file on your PC.
    5. Replace yourUSSESDdirectory with the name of the USS directory that you use for ESD downloads.
    6. Replace paxfile.pax.Z with the name of the pax file to upload.

    The pax file is transferred to the mainframe.