RE: Monitor for dialup connection before issuing FTP commands

Hi Rick,

Try using the PING command. What happens if you PING the remote system
before the PPP dialup connection has completed? If it just returns an error,
you could try CL code like this.


 LOOP:       PING       RMTSYS(remotesystem) MSGMODE(*QUIET *ESCAPE)
             MONMSG     MSGID(TCP3210 TCP3202) EXEC(GOTO CMDLBL(ERR))
             GOTO       CMDLBL(CONT)
 ERR:        DLYJOB     DLY(60)
             GOTO       CMDLBL(LOOP)
 CONT:       ... do the FTP ...


Another option might be to use the RTVCFGSTS command to retrieve the status
of the PPP device.

             DCL        VAR(&STS) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(5 0)
 LOOP:       RTVCFGSTS  CFGD(device) CFGTYPE(*DEV) STSCDE(&STS)
             IF         COND(&STS *NE xx) THEN(DO)
               DLYJOB   DLY(60)
               GOTO     CMDLBL(LOOP)
             ENDDO
             ... do the FTP ...

The "xx" in the IF statement is the value you are checking for. If you
prompt the RTVCFGSTS command and get help on the "CL variable for status
code", you can see what the different values are (60=ACTIVE, 40=CONNECT
PENDING, etc).

Hope this helps!
Richard Casey



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard B Baird
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 8:41 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Monitor for dialup connection before issuing FTP commands

Hey all,

I'm looking for recommendations on how to programatically wait for/monitor
for/ensure that a PPP dialup connection has completed, and all the
handshaking is done, so that I may start an ftp connection with the remote
machine.

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