RE: Process FTP Output log

Jeff,
Thanks, I needed that!
Totally over-looked OVRDBF.
I have a copy of FTPAPI and want to implement but I'm
in results NOW mode - and you just saved my life!

And thanks also to Charles - I believe I am on Scott's mailing list
so I'm hoping to circle back because we too need reliability which
my current hack will not address.

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Young
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 1:43 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Process FTP Output log

Gary,
Others here will suggest that you use Scott Kelments' FTPAPI utility that will give you finer control and total error handling.
If you want to process the FTP Output Log, I would suggest that you create a Source File and prior to the FTP command issue an OVRDBF command as
follows:
OVRDBF FILE(OUTPUT) TOFILE(your file) TOMBR(your member).
The file name OUTPUT is used by FTP to write the output log.


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am looking for a quick way to process output FTP session "logs".

We have a "never-ending" job which monitors for customer deliveries
which are ready and creates and sends an EDI 856 ASN (actually an
imitation) via FTP.

One need is to know if the FTP was successful.

This job creates two spool files for each FTP step, one with input
commands and the other with output. During the course of a day there
are over 200 of these files so I need to read the most recent FTP
output spool, which can be identified by the three parts of file:
Name, Device or Queue and User Data.

My current idea is to scan for 'bytes transferred'

I've worked with spool API's but not here and not for some time but a
link to the API name and any/all hints will be much appreciated.
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