Introduction

If you’ve ever had to transfer files between a host mainframe and a PC workstation, you already know it can be time consuming and tedious. This is especially true if you need to transfer multiple members of a Partitioned Data Set (PDS). Don’t you wish there was an easy way to simply select the members to be transferred directly from a member list? If so, good news!

One of ISPF’s “best kept secrets” is the Work Station Agent, or WSA for short. It’s an executable file that’s downloaded from the mainframe and installed on a PC. Once the WSA has been installed, a “connection” between the mainframe and PC allows any of the following to occur:

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