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This reminds me of a recent post here. The problem was passive mode FTP, which doesn't use the same ports. Try turning off passive mode Use SENDPASV 0. Details are in software knowledge base at <http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.nsf/1ac66549a21402188625680b0002037e/fdeb011a2e6f53f4862569b60068b585?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,passive,ftp> At 01:50 PM 3/27/02 -0600, you wrote: >I've experienced this error before, but it was always a firewall issue. > >In the FTP protocol, the FTP client and server connect on port >21, and this is called the "control connection". On that port >they negotiate which FTP commands (such as put, get, rename, >delete) will be executed, as well as which files will be sent to >which directories, etc. When a file transfer takes place, they >negotiate an address & port to use for a "data connection", which is >used to transfer that one file, and then closed. For each transfer, >they negotiate a new port/address for the data connection which may be >the same ports, but also may be different. > >If there is a firewall in between, they may be negotiating a port that >the firewall does not permit. When this happens, the negotiation >succeeds, but when they try to actually open the data connection, they >can't connect -- thus the message "can't open data connection" > >I don't know if this is the same problem that you're encountering, but >that's what it was for me. The fix might be to simply re-try when it >fails, or to change the firewall. > >HTH > >On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Lori Hainey wrote: > > > We have a process that FTP's various files from our AS/400 to a vendor's > > Unix box. Some of the files transfer fine, others bomb out with a '425 > Can't > > open data connection' error. We are doing to STRTCPFTP within a CL and > > taking the default parms on this command (of which one is WRTRMNOPN) > meaning > > the value in the record parm is written tot the file and the member remains > > open. I am thinking this may be our issue and if I change to *WRTCLOSE > > (value in record parm is written to file and member is closed), that this > > may resolve the issue. I just wanted to see if others have experienced this > > issue before and what their experience has been to consider all options for > > resolution. > > > > Lori Hainey > > Project Leader > > York International > > lori.hainey@york.com > > > >_______________________________________________ >This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list >To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, >visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l >or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com >Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives >at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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