Re: import -- MIDRANGE-L

Hi Vern,
Greetings for a wonderful day! Thank you so much for
your valuable mail.
However, we have a time tested procress in place where
the files are sent by the vendor to some unix machine
& from there some program loads the files to AS400. 
I have to work out on  the import programs from unix
to AS400 by consulting people ???...Any suggestions on
this ?
I never had this kind of expertize...
TIA,
Murali.


--- Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi., Murali
> 
> Glad you got some help. I guess I don't know what
> else you need. When you 
> say "set up for external ftp to as400", are you
> talking about an external 
> client, such as on Windows or Unix, or are you
> speaking of the server on 
> the 400?
> 
> I assume that when you say "to the as400", you mean
> that the 400 is the 
> server. If that is not the case, please say more.
> The following comments 
> are based on that assumption.
> 
> If speaking of the remote client, there is nothing
> different from any other 
> platform, where you type ftp hostname (or address)
> and press enter. Then 
> there is one possible difference - you need to
> decide whether you will use 
> library naming or path naming. These are set with
> the NAMEFMT subcommand - 
> 0 means library, 1 means path. From the client you
> can execute
> 
> quote site nam 1
> 
> to set path naming. Use 0 in the subcommand to set
> library naming. See 
> InfoCenter for good info on how to name objects in
> either name format.
> 
> Other than this, there is nothing different at the
> client from connecting 
> to any other kind of ftp server.
> 
> If speaking of the server, there are configuration
> commands for the 
> traditional tcp/ip servers, including ftp. That's
> all that is needed to set 
> up the server. Then you just need to start the
> server. You could execute
> 
> go cmdftp
> 
> to see what the commands for ftp are on the 400. And
> starting a TCP server 
> is, as other 400 commands, simply STRTCPSVR.
> 
> That's all there is, basically, when the 400 is the
> server.
> 
> If the final destination is a physical file, then
> you can ftp directly to 
> such a file. It has to be created before the
> transfer, otherwise it will be 
> created as a single-field record. The source file
> (at the client) has to be 
> one with fixed-length records with record separators
> (CRLF in some 
> combination - differs in Unix and Windows but is
> irrelevant). In other 
> words, it needs to be a byte to byte match from
> client to server. This 
> means that you cannot ftp directly into a file with
> packed fields. However, 
> you can create a logical file with zoned fields
> based on the packed fields 
> of the physical - it's magic but it works.
> 
> OTOH, if the source file is a comma-separated
> variable (CSV) or some other 
> varying length variable layout, you need to ftp to
> IFS, then use CPYFRMIMPF 
> to convert to the physical file. You should be able
> to work out the 
> details. There are numerous posts in this list on
> these topics, so the 
> archives make a good source of info. And the FAQ
> section may have some 
> stuff. Places like www.iseriesnetwork.com and
> www.techtarget.com have had 
> focused articles on ftp and are very helpful. And
> you could benefit from 
> the excellent search engine at iSeries support
> (www.iseries.ibm.com.support 
> and just click on the Search button, upper right)
> 
> E.g., a ggogle on "ftp iseries site:techtarget.com"
> led to a good site with 
> further links, including a webcast on iseries ftp
> fundamentals. The same 
> search at the iseriesnetwork.com site was not so
> fruitful, IMO.
> 
> HTH
> Vern
> 
> At 10:58 PM 1/16/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> >Thanks to all who responded ,I have got useful
> >information from Info centre as well as from the
> posts
> >by Vern ,Robert & Mark ..
> >Thank you somuch  guys ...Kindly share your
> expertize
> >if you have more info... I wanted to know
> >how/where the set up for external ftp to as400 is
> >done....
> >
> >
> >Thank you,
> >Murali.
> 
> 
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