[Info-vax] Unexpected DECnet Phase IV functionality with possible captive account implications

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-11, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>
> I haven't look closely, but when doing a FTP to on MVS system, you could
> specify the outpout file as "INTRDR". That is the "internal card reader"
> and sending anything to that "file" would submit a MVS batch job.
> And this was over standard FTP.
>

Thank you Jan-Erik, I wasn't aware of that.

> I do not know if there exist some similar "batch spooling" feature
> when FTP'ing a file to VMS...
>

I've just had a quick look at the Multinet FTP client help but I don't
see anything obvious that implements this functionality there.

Simon.

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