Re: FTP Multiple Files From iSeries to PC

In case Chris is interested, I just started working w/NFS and it's easy to 
install get up and running and once it's in place nothing much needs to be done 
w/it.  A good backup option, or so it seems.   
   
 
-----Original Message-----
From: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:46:24 +0000
Subject: Re: FTP Multiple Files From iSeries to PC


Chris, can you use NFS? iSeries can be a very nice client or server for this. 
Then you simply mount the NFS system in the IFS of the iSeries just copy your 
files to the mounted folder instead of where they go now - no FTP or nuttin' 
needed - they just get there. iSeries can also see Windows servers using 
Windows 
networking, but it is pretty poor performing. NFS is much better.

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Chris Bailey" <cbailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> I'm trying to help an IBM iSeries based company automate the transfer of a 
> set of arbitrarily named files to a Windows/Linux based company. 
> 
> I have no direct AS/400 experience, but lots of experience on other 
> platforms, so please be patient with me. 
> 
> The files we need to transfer are scanned one page images from Content 
> Manager. The documents have been extracted from CM/ImagePlus into a folder 
> and are ready to transfer via FTP. Normally the SAVDLO command would be 
> used to save all the documents to a single SAVF format file, then the single 
> SAVF physical file would be FTP'd out using a PUT command in BINARY mode. 
> This works perfectly because the SAVDLO command allows *ALL file selection. 
> 
> The problem is that the receiving system is non-IBM so there is no way to 
> open this file. The SAVF file format specification is not published (as far 
> as we know) so we'd need to crack the format, and that seems like a big 
> waste of time and money. 
> 
> Here's what we think we know: 
> 
> CPYTOPCD with TRNTBL(*NONE) and TRNFMT(*NONE) should generate an 
> untranslated binary physical file for us, but it doesn't support wildcard 
> file selection. 
> 
> The CAT command (cat -c file1 file2 >> fileout) should allow us to create 
> one large concatenated file, but again, the input files must be named. We 
> can split this type of file apart at the receiving end if necessary. 
> 
> So experts, we're looking for a solution. 
> 
> Is there a way to either concatentate all the files or FTP a set of files 
> when they have arbitrary file names? 
> 
> Any ideas would be most appreciated. 
> 
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