Verifying the FTP server

If FTP is in the autolog list and the TCP/IP address space is restarted, FTP should start automatically. For other cases, it should be started manually. To do this, go to the MVS™ console and enter the following command:

S FTPD

Note: This command assumes the FTP procedure name is FTPD.

If the FTP server startup is complete, the following message should be seen on the MVS console:

EZY2702I Server-FTP: Initialization completed at 17:37:29 on  12/17/99.

If the message is not seen, a message explaining why FTP did not start up will appear in SYSLOG. Even if the above message is issued, it would be beneficial to inspect SYSLOG for warning messages issued during FTP initialization. EZY2700I displays the port FTP uses as the control port, the port it listens to for incoming connections from clients. In this example, FTP is listening to standard port 21.

The file syslog uses is defined in /etc/syslog.conf. The statement daemon.info /tmp/daemon.log directs SYSLOGD to save all the daemon messages in /tmp/daemon.log. Below is an example of output error messages.

EZYFT18I Using catalog '/usr/lib/nls/msg/C/ftpdmsg.cat' for FTP messages.       
EZY2697I IBM FTP CS V1R10 21:04:56 on 04/17/08                                   
EZY2640I Using dd:SYSFTPD=USER1.FTP.DATA for local site configuration parameters
EZYFT46E Error in dd:SYSFTPD file: line 4 near column 9.                        
EZY2636E SMFLOGN value not specified.                                           
EZYFT46E Error in dd:SYSFTPD file: line 5 near column 8.                        
EZY2636E SMFREN value not specified.   
EZYFT47I dd:SYSFTPD file, line 21: Ignoring keyword "EXTENSIONS REST_STREAM".   
EZYFT47I dd:SYSFTPD file, line 29: Ignoring keyword "CTRLCONN".           
EZYFT21I Using catalog '/usr/lib/nls/msg/C/ftpdrply.cat' for FTP replies.  
EZYFT26I Using 7-bit conversion derived from 'ISO8859-1' and 'IBM-1047' for the control connection.
EZYFT33I Unable to open DDNAME 'SYSFTSX' for the data connection: EDC5129I No such file or directory.
EZYFT31I Using //'TPOUSER.STANDARD.TCPXLBIN' for FTP translation tables for the data connection.
EZYFT09I system information for VIC135: z/OS version 1 release 10 (2094)
EZY2700I Using port FTP control (21)      
EZY2701I Inactivity time is 0     
EZY2702I Server-FTP: Initialization completed at 21:05:57 on 04/17/08. 
EZYFT41I Server-FTP: process id 16777255, server job name FTPD11