Re: Scripting FTP in a CL program

Put the connection and login credentials in the script, that way they don't
appear on the user's screen.
Then run the script via a CL wrapper that has the OVRDBF. This way, all they
have to do is call the pgm, or execute a command.

We do this with several jobs that send data to our Windows servers as well
as others' externally.

Here's an example:

open 10.28.0.55
user X1R546A BR549x1zf8
namefmt 1
cd edidata
put /tmp/cuusnff.int
dir
quit

I add the "dir" to the script so when it finishes, I can see what happened
if there are errors.

BTW: In the output for the FTP session, the password is replaced with
asterisks.

Will this work for you? Or, am I not fully understanding the problem?


Ron



On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Create the script file in qtemp from encrypted data.

Huh????

Let me restate the scenario, in a bit more detail:

Customer Universal Foobar has a dozen AS/400s scattered around the
planet, some of them non-LPAR-able, some of them with a single LPAR,
some of them with multiple LPARs.

They have just downloaded Frobozz to one of those boxes, and they're
tickled pink with it. So they want to put it on all their boxes.

The idea here is to provide them with an easy way of doing this. The
obvious way to script FTP would be to build the script in a member of a
PF-SRC in QTEMP. But of course, for at least slightly longer than the
duration of the FTP connection, the user doing this will have a user-ID
and password sitting in his or her job's QTEMP, and if the propagation
program abends without signing off the job, there's no guarantee that if
that user walks away from the terminal for two minutes without signing
off, some schmuck won't take a quick peek at that source member.

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