Re: FTP exit

Andre

At 12:12 PM 5/31/1998 +0200, you wrote:
>
>We have a lot of ftp initiated by the as/400. They work very well and we
use the
>      log to check the good completion.
>
>But we want now to start FTP from a mainframe to the as/400. It works
well, but
>      the programmers would like to have some messages on the as/400
showing the
>      status of the transfer.
>
>I suppose the only way is to have an exit on FTP which monitors the transfer.
>
>Does anyone have an example, or a model of an FTP exit ? (we have V4R1)

Is the 400 the server or the client? The following assumes the 400 is the
client.

As with all ftp implementations, there are messages returned to the client
system for each subcommand that executes on the server. These messages go
to STDOUT, or are redirected—OVRDBF or OVRPRTF in AS/400 terms.

There are no messages on the 400 during the process, unless you count the
byte count that appears at the bottom of the screen while a get/put is in
effect.

Come to think of it, though, you could use the 'syscmd' subcommand to
execute a 400 command. This could do anything allowed on a command line or
from a program, I think. It could—ooh, this is getting good!—call a program
that'd look at the output file up to that point (barring lock conflicts)
and check for return codes. Then it could send messages as needed. D'ya think?

These things would execute from an ftp script. See the TCP/IP Config & Ref
for details.

HTH

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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