Re: Another ftp-type question.

John

FTP is a data-only transfer, as Simon said. It is not really a file-transfer - well, in the PC/Unix world it is, cuz their files are not formatted, as PFs are on the i.

If you do a GET from an LF, and there is no file on your local z, you get a flat file. There is no record format information. Not sure if there is an analog to a record format on the z. I assume that what you would get is a single-column table. If you have a table already there, it'd populate it.

But I would not take the time to create an LF to do what you want. Do it with remote SQL - you then do the modifications in the SELECT statement. If other flavors of DB2 are like that on the i, there will be some object placed on the i that contains optimizer information. But this is a simpler way to go, IMO.

Vern

McKown, John wrote:

This is just curiousity on my part. From previous responses, I know that
I can ftp a physical file (equivalent to a DB2 table on other systems).
If I need the information in the PF, but reformatted in some way (such
as packed decimal as zoned or binary interger as zoned), can I just
create an LF and then ftp the LF? If so, I would hope this would give me
the data in the PF, but "reformated" and "selected" as specified in the
LF. True? Thanks.
John McKown
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