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Transfer Settings Dialog Box

How do I get to this dialog box?

  1. Open the Transfer Settings dialog box.

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.

    User Interface Mode Steps
    Ribbon On the Session ribbon, from the Transfer group, click the Transfer Settings launcher:
    Classic or Classic MDI On the Tools menu, choose Transfer File. Then, in the Transfer dialog box, click the Settings button.
    Reflection Browser On the Reflection menu, choose Tools and then File Transfer. In the Transfer dialog box, click the Settings button.

Configure transfer protocol and translation options for file and data transfers. Any configuration you perform is saved with your session document. The tabs displayed depend on your current configuration, and the way you accessed this dialog box.

Protocol
Available in all session types. Use this tab to select a transfer protocol.

Mainframe
Available in 3270 sessions when Mainframe is the selected protocol. Use this tab to configure transfer protocol options when you're transferring to or from an IBM mainframe.

Translation
Available in all sessions when Mainframe or AS/400 is the selected protocol. Use this tab to specify how filenames are handled during transfers.

Templates
Available in 3270 sessions when Mainframe is the selected protocol. Use this tab to map PC filename patterns to filename patterns on the mainframe.

AS/400
Available in all sessions when AS/400 is the selected protocol. Use this tab to configure transfer protocol connection options for transfers to and from an IBM System i (AS/400).

Options
Available in all sessions when AS/400 is the selected protocol. Use this tab to configure the way Reflection handles data transfer.

SQL
Available when AS/400 is the selected protocol, and you open the Transfer Settings dialog box by clicking the Settings button in the Transfer dialog box. Use this tab to create SQL queries for extracting data from IBM System i (AS/400) files.

FTP
Available in both 3270 and 5250 sessions.

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