Re: Batch FTP

[Carl Galgano <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:02 PM 7/28/97 EDT, phcoffin@VNET.IBM.COM wrote:
>From: Peter H. Coffin
>Database Marketing Tools Team
>T/L 665-6298 (414-223-6298) phcoffin@vnet.ibm.com
>Subject: Batch FTP
>Rob writes:
>
>The DOS is tangential to my real problem.  The problem being, 'How do I
>automate the receiving of files to my AS/400 from the Internet?'  What
>the DOS is teaching me is that piping the password is a trick.
>Does anyone have some clues as to how to do FTP with the AS/400 in batch?
>
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>You build a database file containing the commands that you want to have
>ftp execute, or use SEU to build a source file with those commands. (It
>doesn't matter whether you use a *SRC or *DATA file.) You override the
>default input using OVRDBF (think "pipe") like
>
>OVRDBF     FILE(INPUT)  TOFILE(MYLIB/MYFTPCMD)
>
>and then start the transfer like
>
>FTP        RMTSYS('ftp.apple.com')
>
You can also specify a dummy system name for RMTSYS keyword and then in your
FTP source file issue an OPEN FTP subcommand to the host name (or ip
address).  This is handy is you wish to use a single routine for all batch
related FTP with all the system related FTP subcommands in a source (or
data) file.  I don't know of any way to overcome the password issue using
this technique.
Carl
Carl J. Galgano
cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.   
540 Powder Springs Street
Suite C19
Marietta, GA 30064
770-422-2995

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