Re: Ftping large files w/o timing out

I think you should try and get away from FTP'ing from the library file system. Try and use the IFS. The IFS will give the best performance, this was brought up recently in this list-serv.

I found a shell script that uses the java "jar" command to zip up a save file. It also has an unzip feature.

get it here:
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/services/us/igsc/cs2/shellScripts/zip

<snip>
# zip - a Qshell script to compress and restore iSeries save files
# Written by Michael Swenson
</snip>

tuck in the ifs somewhere in your path

after running it try and FTP that zip file to the other side then unzip.
lather-rinse-repeat.

Bryan



Terry Nonamaker said the following on Fri, 1/25/2013 11:57 AM:

That is how I am doing the savf
.....that takes it time, but that is not the problem

What we are doing, is using this process as a secondary method of DR
.....we do savlibs to a *savf for the appropriate items
.....and then ftp those to the remote iseries
.....small libs go just fine
.....it's these big guys that get in the way
..........and I don't really have a way of making them smaller than they are
getting
..........currently they are *Medium, possibly *high could be an option
..........it depends on how much time it actually adds to the process


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This doesn't answer the timeout problem directly but...
If when you save your objects
you set DTACPR (data compression) to *MEDIUM or *HIGH you should get very
good "shrinkage" on the *SAVF size.
WARNING - Time to save will increase.





On 1/25/2013 10:02 AM, Terry Nonamaker wrote:

Is there a way to ftp large files between local iseries/remote iSeries
and not time out

...there are firewalls on each end

...so I don't know if it's the iSeries timing out or the windows
firewall



I have 2 *savf files I need to transfer on a regular basis

..but the server always times out



I have changed the inactivity time to 0 on both ends to supposedly not
time out

..Not

I have used the TIME command in ftp to set it to high timeout values

...and DEBUG T1/T2

...Neither of those makes a difference either



One file is 3.94Gb and the other is 9.52Gb



I can do it from the windows server

...and it does not timeout from there



But why can't I do it from the iSeries



Suggestions please

..no amount of searching seems to help



Terry Nonamaker

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