RE: FTP Receive Question

Thanks for the reply Carl.  Seems I was on the right track (always nice to
know)  :-)

I will grab that utility and try to incorporate it later on.  Certainly more
clean than copying spooled output to a PF and reading it.

About the looping, I am doing that as well.  I create the file listing based
on a wildcard, like if I am pulling Purchase Orders, I look for
'/path/to/files/PO*' and then CPYFRMSTMF in to one PF and then process that
one PF.

I assume that is what you meant when you said 'CPYTOSTMF' below you really
meant CPYFRMSTMF.

Thanks again for the help and for the utilities.

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carl Galgano
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 7:58 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: FTP Receive Question


Hi Brian:
I would go ahead and use the IFS, and as suggested, use the CPYFRMSTMF or
CPYFROMIMPF command.  If you go to our website (URL below), click the link
for DOWNLOADS, there is a free AS400 utility that will do a DIR command to
an outfile.  The you can simply read the outfile in a loop and execute the
CPYFRMSTMF command.  We have lot of EDI customers that FTP files to us, into
the IFS and we use this technique.  Then you don't have to worry about the
files being the proper names, etc.  If they send 3 files, you do a CPYTOSTMF
command into a single PF, and then process the single file.  Really a pretty
decent solution.
cjg

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-----Original Message-----
From: Brian J. Eckenrod [mailto:beckenrod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:00 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: FTP Receive Question


I have a problem I am trying to solve with something clever and not a big
change.  Someone is trying to send a large stream of data to our AS400 via
FTP.  This data is EDI data and not wrapped (one long string of chars).

Problem is, with the record size limit on the DB2 side of the AS400, there
would be the possibility of truncating the data, if it is written as one
long string of data.  Of course I built my processes expecting the data to
be dropped on the DB2 side of things and would rather not change to receive
the data from the IFS.

So, I am looking for a way, if there is one, to 'put' a stream of data in to
a fixed width file on the AS400.  My plan would be for the FTP initiator to
create a PF on the 400 with a remote command and then put the data in to it
and have it somehow 'magically' wrapped :)

If that is not possible, is there a DSPFD equivalent on the IFS that I could
create a list of similar files in an IFS folder.  Like show me all files
that begin with TX* in folder XYZ?

Thanks everyone,
Brian



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