Re: FTP PUT creates a FLAT file (Tom Deskevich)

On 1/12/11 2:07 PM, Tom Deskevich wrote:

Ok, I cannot use a save file because I am at 7.1 and they are at 5.2,
you can only go back to 5.4.

I tried APPEND, I tried PUT since you said it implies replace.
In both cases I get this: (file is is at destination with no records,
built with DDS)

<<SNIP>>

Rather than using the generic data transport methods of FTP which are limited to just text or binary, and since CPYF was noted as a recovery attempt in a prior post, why not just use a TCP/IP DDM File to copy the data using a *database* data transport method? That is, the data is neither from a flat file nor a stream file of nondescript [beyond fixed record length or EOL markers to describe] text data or binary data. Since the data is apparently from an externally described database file member per the target file member being created as a DDS\externally described database file, then CPYF of a DDMF on the source system /pointing/ to the database file [member] on the target system can directly invoke the database I/O to send the data. No save\restore required.

Regards, Chuck