{"id":42,"date":"2009-10-16T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=42"},"modified":"2009-10-16T21:43:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-17T01:43:24","slug":"performing-file-transfers-using-the-ispf-work-station-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Performing File Transfers using the ISPF Work Station Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;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&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>One of ISPF&#8217;s &#8220;best kept secrets&#8221; is the Work Station Agent, or WSA for short. It&#8217;s an executable file that&#8217;s downloaded from the mainframe and installed on a PC. Once the WSA has been installed, a &#8220;connection&#8221; between the mainframe and PC allows any of the following to occur:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsotimes.com\/articles\/archive\/spring04\/wsafiletransfer.html\">Click here <\/a>to read the whole article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction If you&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/?p=42\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-information-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/main.jmah.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}