# mainframe navigation question **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-Single-Point-of-Development-SPoD\ **Created:** [November 3, 2011, 11:49am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mainframe-navigation-question/98874 "2011-11-03T11:49:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ronald\_Wijchers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Ronald\_Wijchers](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ronald_Wijchers)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 11:49am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mainframe-navigation-question/98874/1 "2011-11-03T11:49:45Z")
I couldn’t find this in the documentation, which could very well indicate it is not possible, but I will ask anyway: Does Mainframe Navigation enable you to actually transfer data sets from the MF to your local machine ? Or can you only manipulate them on the MF itself ? thanks, Ronald ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mainframe-navigation-question/98874/2 "2011-11-03T13:42:01Z")
Ronald, afaik there is no direct “download” function, but you can browse it, copy the contents and paste it into your favorite local editor. Cheers, Wolfgang ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_Wijchers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Ronald\_Wijchers](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ronald_Wijchers)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mainframe-navigation-question/98874/3 "2011-11-15T07:39:00Z")
ok, thanks Wolfgang… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/mainframe-navigation-question/98874/4 "2021-04-02T15:01:11Z")