Procedures for receiving data sets

Depending upon the procedure used at your installation, you might or might not be notified that a data set was transmitted to you. Some possibilities are:

An informational message appears on your screen when someone transmits a data set to you. The informational message is installation dependent and could be something like the following:
```
October 16,1987 09:22:14 - Mail from local user ANN
```
When you see the informational message, enter the RECEIVE command to display information about the data set from ANN.

When you log on to TSO/E, you see all messages and data sets transmitted to you since you last logged on.

 *NOTE* 1st shift Sunday, 10/17, nodeQ will be up and
 unattended.   All other systems will be down.
------------------------------------------------------------
 Dataset A.NEW.DATA from ANN on NETNY
 Enter restore parameters or 'DELETE' or 'END'  +

No messages appear at log on or during your TSO/E session. To receive data sets, periodically enter the RECEIVE command.

Your installation may use various security features that affect the way the RECEIVE command works. If so, the results of receiving data sets may differ from those described here. z/OS TSO/E User's Guide explains the differences you can expect.

Exercise

Transmit one of your data sets, such as TEST.DATA, to yourself. After issuing the RECEIVE command, you see messages similar to:

Dataset A.TEST.DATA from YOURID on NODEID
Enter restore parameters or 'DELETE' or 'END'  +

You can rename the received data set to SAMETEST.DATA by entering:

DATASET(sametest.data)

You then see messages similar to:

Restore successful to dataset 'PREFIX.SAMETEST.DATA'
Sender notified of receipt.
---------------------------------------------------------
Acknowledgment from YOURID on NODEID
 Dataset 'PREFIX.TEST.DATA' sent 14 OCT 1987 10:24:59.
 STORED
---------------------------------------------------------
No more files remain for the receive command to process.
READY

Now have someone send you a data set. When you issue the RECEIVE command and see the prompting message about restoring parameters, press the Enter key to receive the data set with its default name.