RE: FTP script variables

At my previous job I had to port libraries between two systems. The only
way that I figured out how to do it was to FTP a save file, but, since the
library could/would change every time, I wound up writing a CL which did the
heavy lifting and called an RPG IV program to create the FTP script file.
Couldn't figure out another way since the FTP command itself doesn't take an
object name as a parameter, and the scripts were executed explicitly ("What
you see is what you get.").

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John McKee
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:25 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: FTP script variables

That definitely works. Another method I have used in the past was TAATOOLS
to build the script dynamically. Just seemed so dumb that I know the name
of the file to send and nothing else changes, then to have to monkey around
with building scripts of editing them.

No big deal.

John McKee

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John,

What I have done in the past is use a CL program to execute the FTP

script.

Since I know exactly where in the script record the file name is
found, I have a program that takes the variable name and writes it
into the script record.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John McKee
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:09 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: FTP script variables

I've never seen anything about an input file of FTP commands using
variables.  My assumption is that FTP won't work that way.

In the past, I have built FTP scripts on the fly.  This latest vendor
"request" seems like another one of those cases.

This is FTP and not sFTP.

Same location.  Different filename throughout the day.  I can build
the script dynamically, or just make copies of the exiting script and
change the put command.

Just wondered if CL variables could be used.

John McKee
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