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Protocol Tab of the Transfer Settings Dialog Box

How do I get to this dialog box?

  1. Open a 3270 or 5250 terminal session.

  2. Open the Transfer Settings dialog box.

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.

    User interface mode Steps
    Ribbon With a session open, on the Session ribbon, from the Transfer group, click the Transfer launcher:
    InfoConnect Browser With a session open, on the InfoConnect menu, choose Tools and then File Transfer. In the Transfer dialog box, click the Settings button.
    TouchUX With a session open, tap the Wrench icon and then under Tools, select File Transfer. In the Transfer dialog box, click the Settings button.
    Classic MDI With a session open, from the Setup menu, select File Transfer.

The protocol you select determines which preset configurations are available. Also, the tabs available from the Transfer Settings dialog box change to enable you to configure transfers using the selected protocol.
Protocol Select the file transfer protocol you want to use.
Preset configurations Selecting an item from this list adjusts the appropriate values automatically in the Transfer Settings dialog box for that specific environment. To see which values will change, select a preset configuration name and click View.
To use the values you already have defined in InfoConnect (in the Transfer Settings dialog box and elsewhere), click Current Configuration. After doing so, the View button becomes unavailable.
View Click to open the View File Transfer Presets dialog box, from which you can see the predefined settings for the currently selected preset configuration.

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