Re: 400 to 4690 POS Store Controller

Neil,

Here is an extract from our FTP Manager user manual on starting jobs on the
4690 from a client FTP session on the AS/400:

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An example of starting background application named  testpgm.286  is:

  ftp>  quote adxstart testpgm.286

If you want to execute a batch file (.BAT, etc.) you must use the following
format:

  ftp>  quote adxstart \adx_spgm\command.286 -c mybatfile

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There is quite a bit more about setting up the environment to make this
happen. I'll be glad to send these to you if you like.

Patrick

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Palmer" <neilp@dpslink.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 8:37 AM
Subject: 400 to 4690 POS Store Controller


> Have a customer who had 4690 POS Store Controllers connected to their 400
> via SDLC and IBM's 5769-CF1 Point Of Sale Utility.
> Custome rnow has a WAN in place so we replaced the SDLC communications
> with TCP/IP.
> We replaced the send and receive file retail file commands (SNDRTLF &
> DLTRTLF/CRTRTLF/RCVRTLF) that were part of 5769-CF1 with SNDTCPF & RCVTCPF
> (command interface to FTP from an August 1995 News/400 article by Julian
> Monypenny).
> What were having problems with is replacing the SBMRTLPGM command, used to
> kick off a price update on the POS system, with the RUNRMTCMD command.
>
> When we try something like:
> RUNRMTCMD CMD('CALL TEST')
>           RMTLOCNAME(REMOTELOC *IP)
>           RMTUSER('userid')
>           RMTPWD('password')
>
> We get CPE3425  A remote host refused an attempted connect operation.
>
> I don't know much about 4690's but I thought they ran OS/2.  Turns out
> it's a variation of OS/2 called Flex OS.
> Does anyone know how to get the system to accept remote commands from the
> 400 ?
>
>
> ...Neil
>
>
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