Re: FTP and long SYSCMD question

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

First off, rather than using the built in FTP client in a "scripted"
batch mode, I highly recommend Scott Klement's FTPAPI.
http://www.scottklement.com/ftpapi/

Secondly, if you really really got use the above (or perhaps even if
you can) and the additional parms on the restore lib are static,
consider writing you own command / command processing program that
simply takes the variable parts of teh command like the library name
and does the correct submit job.  This way, if you ever need to
add/change a parm, you've only got to do it in one place.

HTH,
Charles

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings IT GURUs,
>
> Background:
>
> V5R4 on both i5/os machines/partitions.
>
> I have a process that uses FTP to get save files of libraries from one i
> partition to another, and I want to submit a restore job after each library
> is successfully transferred.  I have "get LibOne (R' to get the save file
> and replace the existing file.  I want to do a 'syscmd sbmjob cmd rstobj
> obj(*all) savelib(LibOne) dev(*safv) objtype(*file) savf(backup/LibOne)
> mbropt(*all) alwobjdif(*all) job(JobName) jobd(myjobd) jobq(*jobd)
> jobpty(*jobd)' (extra parms added for clarity and to make the command
> longer).
>
> Questions:
>
> If the command is too long for the FTP line, is there a continuation
> indicator like the plus sign (+) in CL source that will recognize the
> following line as part of the command from the previous line?
>
> What is the max length of a record that FTP can process?  The record length
> of the current script file is 132.
>
> Is there another way to run a submit job command (other than writing a
> program for each of 50 libraries) to get the submit job command to process?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim
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