RE: FTP to iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

No prob, Eric. Many's the time I thought something existed because I wanted it to. Am now trying to convince my daughter, while learning to drive, that cars don't disappear just because she wants them to.

Question still sits here, tho' - how to handle the original problem. I'm not aware of the ability to append on GETs in any client. The version of GET in Windows does not even have the (R - a get just overwrites the local file.

Someone on the list has the FTP API (Scott Klement?) - might have what you want - runs on the 400, gives you much better programmatic control than scripts. You would probably do somethign like CPYF MBROPT(*ADD) after the transfer, if that capability is not there already.

HTH
Vern

At 09:09 AM 7/12/2004, you wrote:

I guess I'm not so sure after all, Vern.  <g>  You've convinced me that I
probably missed the boat...   I inferred the append bahavior, since that
would be the opposite action for (replace.

I've probably never hit this issue, since I've never needed to append with
GET.  We're always going the other direction....

Sorry,

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 7:34 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: FTP to iSeries


Are you sure? When I've used GET without (R it does nothing except tell me
the file is already there. Here's part of the iSeries FTP client help for
the GET:

(REPLACE    This variable is optional.  Writes over the localfile
             if it already exists.  The localfile will not be
             overwritten unless you specify (REPLACE.  The GET
             subcommand displays a message saying that a file member
             or folder document with that name already exists.

There is an APPEND subcommand, but it is for sending out to the server -
PUT replaces, APPEND adds.

Vern

At 04:36 PM 7/9/2004, you wrote:
>On Gets, the default behavior is to append data, with (REPL being the
option
>that changes this behavior.
>
>Eric DeLong
>Sally Beauty Company
>MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
>940-898-7863 or ext. 1863
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 3:01 PM
>To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
>Subject: Re: FTP to iSeries
>
>
>Another related question came up a few minutes ago:
>
>I have a script that is reaching out to a pSeries machine and retrieving
>information. I use the GET command, along with the (REPLACE parameter.
>This script repeats itself every 10 minutes.
>
>The software vendor, not being sure that the previously retrieved data has
>been completely processed, has recommended that the script be changed to
>append the incoming data to the file rather than replacing the entire
>file.
>
>Anybody got any suggestions? How does one do an append?
>
>
>Paul Nelson
>Arbor Solutions, Inc.
>708-670-6978  Cell
>pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx