Re: FTP to As400 via a script on an IBM VSE System

Lynn,

You should be able to put data to the AS/400 from VSE. We have customers
doing it from MVS, but I don't think we have anyone with VSE yet. But I
think it should be the same. The format of the put command would be:

   put  my-vse-file  library/file.member

where "library" is the AS/400 library containing the "file" and "member"
is the file member.

Since VSE is an EBCDIC system you might want to change to Binary mode
before doing the FTP session.

You can run an AS/400 CL program with the FTP RCMD subcommand:

    quote rcmd call mylib/myprogram

The CICS environment will not be of any use at all!

Hope this helps,
Patrick
-- 
IBM AS/400 communications, FTP automation, and network security
software and consulting services.

http://www.patownsend.com


Lynn DiRosa wrote:
> 
>         We have an AS400 with an IP Address & FTP (of Course).  We also have
> an IBM VSE System which we recently loaded the software TCP/IP for the VSE.
> Now that our VSE system has an IP Address we can send files to the AS400 via
> FTP, we want to automate this process.  I need to created a script to run on
> the VSE that accomplishes the following:
> *       Lock the Data collection File on the VSE
> *       Send the file to the AS400 via FTP
> *       Call a CL Program on the AS400 that will process the Data Collection
> File as needed.
> *       unlock the Data Collection File on the VSE
> 
> We would probably be processing this at night for the time being.  I have
> entered the manual commands under FTP from the AS400 to do the "GET", but I
> really need some help in setting up a script on the VSE System which will do
> the "PUT".  One last question, will a CICS environment on the AS/400 help me
> in any way?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lynn P. DiRosa
> Gibraltar Steel, Corporate
> Information Services
> 
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