Re: Using SNADS to transfer file

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Walker, Jodi wrote:

> It seems to me there should be an easier way.  SNADS seems to hint at
> offering the solution.  Once upon a time I used to do ICF programming -
> but the skills are long gone from the memory banks.
>
> So, the question:  is there anyone out there with relevant SNADS
> experience that would be interested in having a discussion with me
> regarding using SNADS to do the transfers of DB2 files across multiple
> iSeries boxes?

We use SNADS here to transfer files (and ftp).  You don't have to do any
programming, you can just use SNDNETF.  For database files, the steps are
(after setting up SNADS in the first place):

SAVOBJ OBJ(file) LIB(library) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(library/savefile)
SNDNETF FILE(library/filename) TOUSRID((username remotehost))

Setting up SNADS can be a little tricky.  You have to define a queue for
each host you send to.  And you have to add users to each distribution
queue.  Not quite as easy as ftp to set up but very simple to use.

James Rich

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