RE: PTF FTP Download Problem

Same thing: Cannot connect to host...

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kirk Goins
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 6:03 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: PTF FTP Download Problem

Jerry,

I just did a ftp PTF.BOULDER.IBM.COM from my i5 command line and was able to
login. What happens whne you do the Interactively on your system?



On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Whenever I try to download a PTF direct from our System i to an image
catalogue, it fails. I see the message in the FTP's output printed report:

Connecting to host PTF.BOULDER.IBM.COM <http://ptf.boulder.ibm.com/> at
address 207.25.253.62 using port
21.
Cannot connect to host PTF.BOULDER.IBM.COM <http://ptf.boulder.ibm.com/>at address 207.25.253.62. Try
again later.

I thought, perhaps, that the FTP server was down, but using the web browser
method, I was able to download the PTF. I tried immediately afterwards, and
got the same message (above).

The CL portion of the download process is:

OVRDBF FILE(INPUT) TOFILE(CROWLIB/QFTPSRC) MBR(PTFS)
FTP RMTSYS('PTF.BOULDER.IBM.COM <http://ptf.boulder.ibm.com/>')

The Input script is:

anonymous anonymous
NAMEFMT 1
LCD '/imgclg/CUME'
ascii
cd /ccss/lv1/something/whatever/c
mget *.txt
binary
mget *.bin
quit

The printed report, after the first line of the script is reached is:

anonymous ********

Subcommand 'anonymous' not valid.

Except for changing the name of the directory on the 'cd' line of the
script, I've done this, oh, a few dozen times.

I tried to PING RMTSYS(PTF.BOULDER.IBM.COM <http://ptf.boulder.ibm.com/>)
and all five attempts failed. I tried the PING from another system and got
an "Unknown host" error (TCP3202).

Is this a hardware or configuration problem? As I said, it has always
worked before, and I don't recall changing anything (at least not on
purpose).

Thanks.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
--
B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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