Re: Help with cume download and application

I like a suggestion that Rob made in an earlier thread about PTFs and FTP
Download. Replace the gets with ;

ascii
mget *.txt
bin
mget *.bin
quit

This will get all text, and then binary files without having to type the
whole list. The only thing you have to change is the path information to
the files IBM provides.

Jim


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just use the FTP option. When IBM sends me the email with the
particulars, I type those into a source member and use it as input into a CL
program, which is basically:

OVRDBF FILE(INPUT) TOFILE(CROWLIB/QFTPSRC) MBR(PTFS)

FTP RMTSYS('PTF.BOULDER.IBM.COM')

The script for the last Groups download I did is, for example:

anonymous somepword
NAMEFMT 1
LCD '/imgclg/CUME'
ascii
cd /ccss/lv1/us67151/b8467151/jerry/c
get ftpGroups.txt
get ilstGroups.txt
binary
get Groups_1.bin
get Groups_2.bin
get Groups_3.bin
get Groups_4.bin
get Groups_5.bin
get Groups_6.bin
get Groups_7.bin
quit

/imgclg/CUME is simply a directory on our System i.

There's a lot more to it, such as submitting it to batch, but I start it
before I leave work and everything is sitting and waiting for me

I had to go this route because our "new and improved" firewall didn't like
either long FTP sessions nor Download Director.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx