Re: Batch FTP

News/400 had a neat utility back in August 1995.  Juilan Monypenny wrote
SNDTCPF and RCVTCPF which send and receive files via FTP.  These commands
generate MONMSGable messages and allow data to be copied *ADD or *REPLACE.

HTH,
Brian L.

At 10:17 AM 7/29/97 -0400, you wrote:
>At 05:02 PM 7/28/97 EDT, phcoffin@VNET.IBM.COM wrote:
>>From: Peter H. Coffin
>>Database Marketing Tools Team
>>T/L 665-6298 (414-223-6298) phcoffin@vnet.ibm.com
>>Subject: Batch FTP
>>Rob writes:
>>
>>The DOS is tangential to my real problem.  The problem being, 'How do I
>>automate the receiving of files to my AS/400 from the Internet?'  What
>>the DOS is teaching me is that piping the password is a trick.
>>Does anyone have some clues as to how to do FTP with the AS/400 in batch?
>>
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>>You build a database file containing the commands that you want to have
>>ftp execute, or use SEU to build a source file with those commands. (It
>>doesn't matter whether you use a *SRC or *DATA file.) You override the
>>default input using OVRDBF (think "pipe") like
>>
>>OVRDBF     FILE(INPUT)  TOFILE(MYLIB/MYFTPCMD)
>>
>>and then start the transfer like
>>
>>FTP        RMTSYS('ftp.apple.com')
>>
>You can also specify a dummy system name for RMTSYS keyword and then in your
>FTP source file issue an OPEN FTP subcommand to the host name (or ip
>address).  This is handy is you wish to use a single routine for all batch
>related FTP with all the system related FTP subcommands in a source (or
>data) file.  I don't know of any way to overcome the password issue using
>this technique.
>Carl
>Carl J. Galgano
>cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
>EDI Consulting Services, Inc.  
>540 Powder Springs Street
>Suite C19
>Marietta, GA 30064
>770-422-2995
>
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