RE: Executing remote commands in FTP

Tim, thanks for the reply!

>QUOTE RCMD cmd.......<  Yes, I remember that now.

>To have the save file on the remote AS400 created automatically you'll need
to specify the PUT as follows PUT mysavefile
/QSYS.LIB/MYLIB.LIB/NEWSAVF.SAVF.<
You don't have to specify NAMEFMT?

>Compression will happen as part of the save<  Actually, I already tested
the save's compression vs. non-compression.  Leaving the default
DTACPR(*DEV) COMPACT(*DEV), the save file topped out at 85mb.  Using
DTACPR(*YES) COMPACT(*DEV), the save file came in at 59mb.  I've yet to find
out how fast our comm line is, so I don't know whether the savings would
matter.  Is compression possibly done at the communications end?

Time for a trial, eh?

- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim McCarthy [SMTP:timm@as400ftp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:28 PM
> To:   'Bale, Dan'
> Subject:      RE: Executing remote commands in FTP
> 
> Well to execute a remote command on an AS400 type QUOTE RCMD CRTSAVF etc
> in the client. You could have all the commands you need to run in a CL
> program on the remote AS400 and just do a QUOTE RCMD CALL xxxxx or you
> could do multiple QUOTE RCMD's. Before you GET the save file change to
> BINARY mode. Compression will happen as part of the save; for newer
> levels of OS400 (I think from V3R7 onwards the save files are pretty
> well compacted and using a compression tool will actually increase the
> size). To have the save file on the remote AS400 created automatically
> you'll need to specify the PUT as follows PUT mysavefile
> /QSYS.LIB/MYLIB.LIB/NEWSAVF.SAVF.
> 
> TrailBlazer Systems, Inc.
> http://www.as400ftp.com
> AS/400 Communications & E-Commerce Solutions
> 
> Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Bale, Dan [SMTP:DBale@lear.com]
> > Sent:       Thursday, April 06, 2000 12:49 PM
> > To: 'Carl Galgano'; 'Rob Berendt'; 'Joel Fritz';
> > 'townsend@patownsend.com'; 'timm@as400ftp.com'
> > Subject:    Executing remote commands in FTP
> > 
> > Forgive me for asking this because I know its been covered before... I
> know
> > I'd be able to find it in the archives but I don't have internet access
> here
> > (yet?).
> > 
> > While considering options for this query, please keep in mind two
> > things: 1) I have to do this for 26 remote AS/400's and 2) this _should_
> be a
> > one-time shot.
> > 
> > How does one execute a command on the remote system in an FTP script?
> > FWIW, this is an AS/400-to-AS/400 session.  Specifically, I need to 1)
> > Create a save file on the remote system, 2) Save two file objects to the
> save
> > file, and finally, 3) copy the save file to the source system (get ftp
> > command).
> > 
> > Alternatively (and preferably), I think I'd like to send a save file
> > to the remote system (without having to create it on the remote system
> first
> > - how is that done in FTP?  How can I specify that a save file should be
> > created on the remote system when I use the SEND command?).  Then do a
> RSTLIB
> > from that save file.  Then execute a program that was in the library
> that
> > was restored.  Finally, after the program completes (which will have
> > re-populated the save file I sent up), use FTP to GET the save file
> > back to the source AS/400.
> > 
> > Finally, can compression / compaction be used on the SAVOBJ for the
> > save file that gets transferred back to the source AS/400?  I thought
> I'd
> > heard before that comp* could not be used, although I'm not sure whether
> it
> > was specific to when the save file was file-transferred to a PC and then
> > back uploaded; things got garbled???
> > 
> > TIA,
> > - Dan Bale
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