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I have zero experience using FTP, but have decades experience with lots of IBM stuff, fluent in several dialects of half a dozen 400 languages, my current favorite being SQL embedded in RPG, now I need to also learn FTP pretty fast. I got into HELP/400 ... looks like there's only about 100 functions and their permutations, hopefully I only need to learn a fraction of this.
My business needs to regularly (at least weekly) send a work file to an AS/400 at another enterprise. To make this work, what all info will I need from the other site? I thinking
* Their AS/400 system "name" or TCIP "name" or other "name"? * Their Internet ###.###.###.### whatever * Some port # that works for both them and us * Will we need sign-on / password equivalent info? * layout of data they need from us * library name of target AS/400 which is to get our fileI not want to be asking for something, get it & try some FTP stumbling, find out need something else, ask for more, loop repeats ... what all will I need to get this to work? We are AS/400 model 170 V5R1.
After I create a physical file with the layout of data desired by the other place, what other object does it need to be converted to, such as a *TBL or *SAVF, and how do I do that? I not asking what THEY need, but what FTP needs.
Can someone point me at IBM manual url with sample CL whatever command lines to get this to work? I want to put whatever into a CL program onto a menu, so a person can just take a menu option and not have to be prompted for anything.
What needs to go in various parameters of various command strings?We have the complete CL manual collection, detailing all the CL commands (as of some V3). Is this FTP stuff in there, or some other set of manuals? I could not find it in the Programmer's Reference Handbook. Possibly I was not looking in the right place.
Does FTP have to be running in coordination at both ends to work, or can any AS/400 connected to Internet do FTP to any other AS/400 if they know system name & Internet ###.etc. address?
Does some DSPLOG entry show up on a system that has been FTP contacted "Hey guys, we had an FTP visitor, and what they did was ..." I got nervous when I saw that someone can connect via FTP then use that connection to delete files.
Google found me some reading material (there's lots more, but this will do for starters, to explode my brain) http://faq.midrange.com/data/cache/67.html http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh070703-story04.html http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh041403-story04.html Chapter 6 of http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245190.html http://search400.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid3_gci1049532,00.html http://www.as400pro.com/servlet/sql.tipListInq?cat=FTP http://www.patownsend.com/FTPManagerFAQ.htm http://www.tylogix.com/Articles/AS400FTPQandA.htm http://www.ftpplanet.com/ubb/Forum8/HTML/000136.html http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/21193/21193.html?Ad=1 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/5581/tips.htm http://www.nwrdc.com/zOS_Support/ftp_qa.htm http://www.texas400.com/b400tip20.html http://home.columbus.rr.com/jbmmdietz/iseries.htmlBuying some manual is probably not an option. Eating a ream of paper, printing out some of this stuff to study over the weekend is a distinct possibility.
My boss wants this implemented up & running like next week. - Al Macintyre BPCS/400 Computer Janitor ... see http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/11/08/bpcsDocSources.html
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