RE: Getting List of Files on a Remote Server -- MIDRANGE-L

Rob:

I'll consider using FTPAPI in the future, but right now, "dir (Disk" is
working. I can't rewrite the application at the moment because of the
constraints of time. I do have a program that reads the FTP log and pages
the programmer if something has gone wrong with the transfer. That's been
working for a couple of years now. I just have to wait for the vendor to put
some more files out there for me to test (again). 

I am doing a RCVF in CL and using that to build a list of the GET commands I
will need. The CL renames the files to a filename on the 400 with the date
and a sequence number, so things will remain unique on the 400.

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Keep in mind that this output is unique to the iSeries -client-.  Thus if
your iSeries is initiating the ftp session to some other server it will
work.  And, according to what you read it's dir (disk not dir (file I tried
it on my machine and it worked.  I could then exit the ftp session and type
in DSPPFM DIROUTPUT.

An alternative might be to OVRDBF OUTPUT TOFILE(myfile) and read through
that.

Another alternative might be to use FTPAPI and process that.  I really think
that's what you're going to want to do.  You'll have to search the archives
for FTPAPI.  It's not a standard iSeries command.

Rob Berendt
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Kendallville, IN 46755
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All,

I'm sure I'm missing something simple. I have to get a list of files on a
remote server so that when I pick them up with GET, they can be renamed to
something unique (I can't use the IFS for this because of the constraints 
of
the application I'm working with.

According to 

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/index.htm?info/rzaiq/rzaiq

dir.htm
<
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/index.htm?info/rzaiq/rzai

qdir.htm> 

I should be able to use the DIR subcommand and it will write a file called
DIROUTPUT with a list of the files, which I would then use to build the 
next
script.

220 FTP server ready. 
Enter login ID (xxxxxxxx): 
331 Password required for xxxxxxx. 
230 User xxxxxxxx logged in.  Access restrictions apply. 
UNIX Type: L8 
Enter an FTP subcommand. 
> LCD FMLLIB 
Local working directory is FMLLIB 
Enter an FTP subcommand. 
> DIR *.* (File 
Use of subcommand DIr not correct. 
Enter an FTP subcommand. 

The manual is not really clear; should I use QUOTE or some such?

Francis Lapeyre
IS Dept. Programmer/Analyst
Stewart Enterprises, Inc.
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