Re: FTP Try again later messge

Hey Gary - you should have a good time with the API.

I don't know if you need to look for that - you should be getting some kind of return code that indicates that it could not "...connect to host..."

Every step in the FTP session is a call to a subprocedure, so you don't have to monitor for stuff in messages like this, generally. It's completely different from the technique of running an FTP script in batch with overrides of stdin and stdout, then reading the results in a spooled file and looking for various text strings - which are not guaranteed to be the same from one FTP server to another!!!

You can see some of Scott's output on this tool - one is at http://iprodeveloper.com/rpg-programming/ftpapi-scotts-utility-assist-batch-ftp-programming - the ftp_open() subprocedure is what connects and returns a session number - he doesn't mention in that article whether something like a negative session means no connection - check the examples in the package.

But Scott replied to someone in these lists at this URL - http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201111/msg00093.html - and a -1 returned from ftp_open means that you could not connect - just what you want to know, I think.

HTH
Vern

On 9/10/2014 3:02 PM, Gary Thompson wrote:

Just installed FTPAPI with hopes to catch msg from FTP host:
'Cannot connect to host 000.000.000.000 at address . Try again later.'
Goal is to re-schedule the transfer for a later time.
All comments welcome by this FTP novice