Today I have a late blog entry for you.

Sorry, that I did not blog the last days. I am investigating a customer issue, and my daughter gave birth to a baby, my first grandchild. Therefore I am a bit busy.

I am currently preparing a standalone z/VSE environment in LPAR using install from DVD (z/VSE 5.2) and FTP for data and applications.
I only have a TCP/IP connection to that z/VSE system from my Windows PC.
Usually my test systems are running in a z/VM guest. From z/VM CMS it's easy to punch a VSE/POWER job into a z/VSE guest.

It's a bit more work to get it into a LPAR.
I developed the job on CMS using XEDIT, then I FTPed it (via Personal Communication, but you may use any other FTP tool) into a Windows folder. You may use text, if the job just contains Job Control (JCL) statements or binary, if it e.g. contains JCL and phase.

I started z/VSE in LPAR and configured the IP stack. I used TCP/IP for VSE/ESA. You may use IPv6/VSE instead too.
You can get configuration member IPINIT00.L from sublib PRD2.TCPIPC, copy (e.g. into your primary ICCF lib), modify it to your needs and catalog it into PRD2.CONFIG.

If you want to transfer a job into the POWER reader (RDR) queue the following statement should be included:

DEFINE FILE,TYPE=POWER,PUBLIC='POWER'

After I modified the configuration member I recycled TCP/IP.

The next step is to FTP into the z/VSE RDR queue. I use the FTP client from the WINDOWS Command Prompt.
First I switch to the folder, where my job is located. You will see corresponding messages in the Command Prompt and on the z/VSE console.
Ping your z/VSE system to verify, if you can reach it from your Command Prompt.
Enter FTP with z/VSE's IP address. You will be prompted for the user id and password.
If that's OK, you can enter the FTP statements:

ascii (or bin dependent on your prior FTP / job)
cd power.rdr.all (change directory to the z/VSE RDR queue)
put testdsk.job (sent my test job to the RDR queue. I use  disposition (DISP)=L to leave the job in the queue and alter it later).

Now you may QUIT from FTP and leave the Command Prompt.

I know, there are other ways to achieve the same thing. You may share them, if you want, e.g. in the comments section ;-)