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

At 02:11 AM 12/25/97 EST, you wrote:
>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...

 You may have posted that comment tongue-in-cheek, but I see no good reason
that the /400 doesn't have an option to retain attributes when sending
between /400s.  

 -mark

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