Re: Scripting FTP in a CL program

[Albert York <alfromme@xxxxxxxxx>]

Have you considered using a DDM file?

Albert


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:07 AM, James H. H. Lampert
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am, of course, already familiar with the idea of scripting FTP by
> doing an OVRDBF of INPUT to a source member containing the commands to
> be executed; I use that principle in a number of utilities, both
> internal and distributed with our products.
>
> But this has a drawback, in that unless the FTP server allows anonymous
> mode, the user profile and password are exposed in that source member,
> for a minimum of slightly longer than the life of the FTP session.
>
> Does anybody know of another way to script FTP? The idea here is to
> provide a way to automatically propagate a save file containing a
> product from one machine (or LPAR) to another, and automatically install
> the product on the target machine.
>
> V4-compatibility is not an issue here, but avoiding outside commercial
> products would be.
>
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> JHHL
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