Re: FTP

[Patrick Shrader <pshrader@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raj,

You need to copy your FTP commands into a database file, then override that
command file to the AS/400 FTP command.

1. Using the CRTPF command, create a physical file length 132. Call the
file something like "FTPCMDS".

2. Populate this file (FTPCMDS) with your FTP requests (I use DFU or an RPG
program).
example:
USER PASSWORD
PUT FILE1.MEMBER1 FILE2
GET FILE3 FILE4.MEMBER4
QUIT

3. From your CL (or command line if running interactivaly), issue this
override command:
        OVRDBF     FILE(INPUT) TOFILE(FTPCMDS) MBR(*FIRST) 

4. Start your FTP command.
        STRTCPFTP RMTSYS(destination) or FTP RMTSYS(destination)

5. End your overrides
        DLTOVR FILE(*ALL)

I have automated the process into a program I call GET that I pass the
local and destination file names to a program, the program GET will then
create the overrides and transfer the files for me. This saves a lot of
time, and I have a put/get command available from the AS/400 command line
like I have in Unix -- without having to jump through the above hoops for
each file I transfer (which is several hundred every day!).

Hope this helps.

At 11:35 AM 2/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello  All,
>                      We were working on tranferring a data file from
>AS/400  to  SUN system  using  FTP.
>I tried on AS/400  Interactively , and I can able to do  that
>successfully.
>
>But, we want to incorporate that into a CL program and want to submit that
>as a batch job.
>
>I wrote the CL. But, I dont know how  to do the FTP portion.
>
>I  did interactively using the following commands.
>
>FTP
>USER
>PASSWORD
>Cd\
>PUT
>
>I could'nt  use this commands except FTP in a CL program.
>
>I read something related to this on this forum, by putting all these
>command into PF.
>
>Can anyone please suggest me, How to do this task?.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Raj
>


------------------------------------------------------------
Patrick Shrader 
pshrader@foodcity.com
Systems Analyst
K-VA-T Food Stores/Food City

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