Re: Batch FTP Fails, Interactive works - what to change?

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's not in your script but in the CL program that starts the session.

Jim Essinger wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> I am new to FTP, and I am tying to set up a batch FTP using a script file.
> When I run interactive - the FTP works fine.  I am not prompted for
> anything, it just starts loading the files from the remote system to my IFS
> directory,   When I submit to batch I get a message that "Program contains
> commands only valid when run interactively."
>
> Here are the entries from my script file;
>
> user  userid password
> namefmt 1
> lcd /ptfcatalog
> ascii
> cd /ibmpath/to/ptf/images/c
> get ftpSF99539.txt
> get ilstSF99539.txt
> binary
> get SF99539_1.bin
> get SF99539_2.bin
> get SF99539_3.bin
> get SF99539_4.bin
> get SF99539_5.bin
> get SF99539_6.bin
> quit
>
>
> I have tried with and with out a blank line to start, and both fail on
> batch.  I look in the log file, and there are no entries.
>
> Anyone run into this before and/or can help me?
>
>
> Thanks!