Re: Attaching multiple AS/400's in the SAME Computer Room

Mark,

In a message dated 97-12-24 04:33:12 EST, you write:

> >>   The major problem I've found w/ FTP is that the file must already have
>  >>  been created on the target system is you want to keep is externally
>  >>  described.  Is there an easy way around this problem?
>  >
>  >I wouldn't consider it a problem, myself.  If you are interfacing to other
>  >systems, _YOU_ should be the one controlling the data format.  A way
around
>  >would be to receive the file into a flat version on the /400, and perform
a
>  >CPYF from the received file to your target file with a FMTOPT(*NOCHK).
>  
>   No good.  If the file already exists on the target system, it works fine.
>  If not, the external description is lost.  Even when sending a *SAVF, the
>  attribute is messed up; it just says *FILE, not *SAVF (even though the
>  system does still treat it as a *SAVF when doing a RSTOBJ).

OK, I'll bite.  Just how does one lose the external definition to a file that
didn't exist in the first place?  Sure, the definition doesn't transfer, but
then that was my point...

Regards,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

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