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TIBCO® Managed File Transfer Platform Server for z/OS 8.1.0

# Directory Transfer Parameters

You can define the following two parameters for directory transfers: CONTINUE and SUBDIR.

By specifying `CONTINUE=YES`, the Platform Server will attempt to perform transfer requests, even if a transfer request fails. By specifying `CONTINUE=NO`, the Platform Server will stop processing when a transfer request fails.

The SUBDIR parameter defines whether subdirectories are processed. The Platform Server supports directory transfers for three different file types, and the SUBDIR parameter has a different meaning for all three file types. The following descriptions shows how the SUBDIR parameter is used for the three file types:

- z/OS sequential datasets

  z/OS datasets cannot have subdirectories. But because of the way that you extract data from the catalog, a mix of sequential and PDS/PDSE datasets might be returned from a catalog request. By specifying `SUBDIR=NO`, the Platform Server does not process any PDS/PDSE files extracted from the catalog. By specifying `SUBDIR=YES`, the Platform Server processes PDS/PDSE files in addition to the sequential files processed.

- z/OS libraries (specifically PDS/PDSE)

  PDS and PDSE files cannot have subdirectories. Therefore, the SUBDIR parameter is ignored for PDS and PDSE files.

- z/OS UNIX file system

  The z/OS UNIX file system is a directory based system. When you specify `SUBDIR=NO`, the Platform Server only looks for files in the defined base directory, and ignores any files in the subdirectories. When you specify `SUBDIR=YES`, the Platform Server looks for files in the base directory as well as files in the subdirectories.

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