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Transfer Tab (Site Properties Dialog Box)

How do I get to this dialog box?

  1. Start the FTP Client.

    This opens the Connect to FTP Site dialog box. (If the FTP Client is already running and this dialog box is not open, go to Connection > Connect.)

  2. From the Connect to FTP Site dialog box, select a site.

  3. Click the Properties button.

Note

  • If you are already connected to a site, from the Connection menu, choose Site Properties.

  • Some changes you make using the Site Properties dialog box when connected will not take effect until the next time you connect to the site.

Use this tab to specify how filenames and dates are handled during file transfers to and from the server. The options are:

Download from server options

Option Description
Preserve server file date Retain the original date stamps associated with downloaded files. If you want files transferred from the server to be date stamped with the time and date when they were transferred, keep this check box cleared.

NOTE: Server file dates will not be preserved if the Display file names only setting on the Directories tab has been enabled.

Server file dates are not preserved when files are dragged to the Windows desktop or Windows Explorer folder. Drag files to the local pane of the FTP Client to preserve file dates.

To retain original server dates in transfers done by a script, you can either load your site settings when you launch the script or add the following line to the beginning of the script: PRESERVE-FILE-DATE yes
Create Windows file names in 8.3 format Select to receive host files in the DOS 8.3 filename format.

For example, a file with the name Longfilename.Document will be converted automatically to Longfile.doc when transferred to your PC.

NOTE: During wildcard transfers with this check box selected, if two long filenames translate to the same DOS 8.3 format name, the second file transferred will overwrite the first when If File Exists is set to Overwrite.To prevent this, change the If File Exists setting to Unique.
Try to resume partial binary downloads Select to have the FTP Client try to resume downloading the untransferred portion of files after an interruption.
This feature is not available for SFTP connections.
Show download options before transfer Select this option if you want to be queried for the transfer method (for example, ASCII or binary) and file properties (read-only or hidden) before downloading a new file from the server.
Send SITE command before transfer Type a SITE command to be executed before a file is downloaded. To find out what SITE commands are supported by the current FTP server, enter this command at the FTP command line: QUOTE help site This feature is not available for SFTP connections.

Upload to server options

Option Description
Remove file name extension Remove the filename extension from files transferred to the host. If an uploaded file's name contains one or more dots, the final dot and any subsequent characters are removed from the filename.
Prepend these characters to the file name Add the specified characters before the filename for files copied to the host. For example, you can use this feature to specify a member name for transfers to an IBM host. If you are connected to an HP POSIX host, the client automatically sets this value to a period followed by a slash ( ./).
Server file name limit Set a limit to the number of characters in the filename for files transferred to the host. Filenames beyond this limit are truncated.
Set case of long file names Select how case is handled in when the transferred filename does not conform to the DOS 8.3 file naming convention.
Set case of 8.3 file names Select how case is handled when the transferred filename does conform to the DOS 8.3 file naming convention.
Compute space on MVS By default, the FTP Client computes and preallocates the number of tracks on MVS system based on the local file size. Clear this option to disable this feature. This setting applies to uploads to MVS hosts only.
Send SITE command before transfer Type a SITE command to be executed before a file is uploaded. To find out what SITE commands are supported by the current FTP server, enter this command at the FTP command line:

QUOTE help site

This feature is not available for SFTP connections.
Show upload options before transfer Select this option if you want to be queried for the transfer method (for example, ASCII or binary) and file permission attributes before uploading a new file to the server.