Re: PROBLEM WITH V5R3 -- Can anybody suggest a way to . . .

My first guess is an authority problem.  Any chance that auditing is turned
on???

Anything in the FTP jobs joblog??

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Bryan Dietz

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/07/2004 01:45:31 PM:

> Would anybody happen to know of a way to determine model number, serial
> number, number of processors, number of LPARs, and current LPAR through
an
> FTP connection?
>
> We have a small program we upload ahead of the product in our web-based
> installation utility, that retrieves that information (so a trial-period
> authorization code can be automatically generated and installed) and puts
> it into an escape message (using CPF9898), which was the only way I could
> find at the time for a program to return its output through an FTP
> connection.
>
> It works beautifully on V4R2 through V5R2. I think it may also work on
> V3R2. But on V5R3, it fails. Instead of
>
> >> ftp> quote rcmd call rtnmodser
> >> 550-Error occurred on command call rtnmodser.
> >> 550 Model  170    Serial  1047YBM    Processors 1    LPARS 01
> CurrPar 00
> >>     ***************.
> >> ftp>
>
> It comes back with
>
> >> ftp> quote rcmd call qgpl/rtnmodser
> >> 550-Error occurred on command call qgpl/rtnmodser.
> >> 550 Cause code is CPF9898; message text not available.
> >> ftp>
>
> Yet it works fine in a terminal session.
>
> One thought: The original version (which only returned model and serial)
> was in CL. I had to change to ILE C in order to return the additional
> information. Is there anything I can do in C, that will produce output on
> an FTP connection, that I couldn't do in CL?
>
> --
> JHHL