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  • Subject: RE: Programming alternatives to the AS/400 FTP command.
  • From: "Alan Moulsdale" <alan.moulsdale@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:58:07 +0100
  • Importance: Normal

Thanks for your thoughts guys...

I already have a method for controlling FTP using RPGIV. This involves
writing the FTP commands to an FTP INPUT member, calling the FTP OS/400
command, and then reading the FTP OUTPUT member and analysing the results.
Its quite neat and I've used it at several clients.

I am just looking for a smarter way of doing it.

Because the environment for this assignment is quite complex, i.e.
AS/400 <> ISP <> Dial In LAPTOP(s)
I needed a decent file handshake.

I have developed this on paper, based on batching data in a unique file,
renaming the file's extension after upload and only downloading files with
the renamed extension (both ways). To do this using my current method is
fully achievable but just a bit complicated.

If there were APIs of RPGIV routines that could directly access the FTP
commands (rather than going via the input file & FTP command method) it
would make things a lot simpler.

Chris Bipes has indicated that there are but it would take 3 months+ to
develop. Surely there must be some programming examples available?

Thanks also for the on and off list offers of products. I am a great
believer in not re-inventing the wheel but the project that I am working on,
or at least the comms part of it, is too small scale to warrant buying any
commercial product, especially as I already have a working method of doing
this.

Come on guys at IBM - FTP is an industry standard; We're on the frontline so
lets have some decent documentation and examples of how to implement it on
OS/400.

Alan

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