Executing remote commands in FTP

Forgive me for asking this because I know its been covered before...  I know
I'd be able to find it in the archives but I don't have internet access here
(yet?).

While considering options for this query, please keep in mind two things: 1)
I have to do this for 26 remote AS/400's and 2) this _should_ be a one-time
shot.

How does one execute a command on the remote system in an FTP script?  FWIW,
this is an AS/400-to-AS/400 session.  Specifically, I need to 1) Create a
save file on the remote system, 2) Save two file objects to the save file,
and finally, 3) copy the save file to the source system (get ftp command).

Alternatively (and preferably), I think I'd like to send a save file to the
remote system (without having to create it on the remote system first - how
is that done in FTP?  How can I specify that a save file should be created
on the remote system when I use the SEND command?).  Then do a RSTLIB from
that save file.  Then execute a program that was in the library that was
restored.  Finally, after the program completes (which will have
re-populated the save file I sent up), use FTP to GET the save file back to
the source AS/400.

Finally, can compression / compaction be used on the SAVOBJ for the save
file that gets transferred back to the source AS/400?  I thought I'd heard
before that comp* could not be used, although I'm not sure whether it was
specific to when the save file was file-transferred to a PC and then back
uploaded; things got garbled???

TIA,
- Dan Bale
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