Re: Using Windows FTP from a bat file to download physical file

In my experience this is nearly always something to do with the Windows
firewall. It is so pervasive for me that I no longer even attempt to use
windows FTP to IBM i. It fails exactly where you show, right when you try
to get the data.

My solution has been FileZilla which works every time. I have not
attempted to script transfer with that however.

So it's possible that Windows firewall was enabled but even with it
DISabled windows FTP still fails too often for me.


- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 7/28/2016 9:53 AM, rick baird wrote:

Hello all,

I've been using a bat file to execute FTP to download a flat physical file
- it worked just fine for weeks but suddenly it locks up and disconnects
after timing out.

here is the bat file:

ftp -s:acaboth.txt myftp.url.com >>acalog.txt

here is acaboth.txt

userid
password
quote site trim 0
recv P020715P/acarept01.acarept01 c:\ME\acarept.txt (replace
recv P020715P/acamanf01.acamanf01 c:\ME\Manifest_.txt (replace
quit

the log file shows it failing to open data connection.

ftp> Connected to ip.address.
220-QTCP at ip.address.
220 Connection will close if idle more than 5 minutes.
---> OPTS UTF8 ON
501 OPTS unsuccessful; specified subcommand not recognized.
User (ip.address:(none)):
---> USER userid
331 Enter password.
---> PASS password
230 userid logged on.
ftp> quote site trim 0
---> site trim 0
250 TRIM trailing blanks when sending database files option set to 0.
ftp> recv P020715P/acarept01.acarept01 c:\ME\acarept.txt (replace
---> PORT 10,60,254,110,194,85
200 PORT subcommand request successful.
---> RETR P020715P/acarept01.acarept01
425 Not able to open data connection.
ftp> recv P020715P/acamanf01.acamanf01 c:\ME\Manifest_.txt (replace
---> PORT 10,60,254,110,194,166
200 PORT subcommand request successful.
---> RETR P020715P/acamanf01.acamanf01
425 Not able to open data connection.
ftp> quit
---> QUIT
221 QUIT subcommand received.

Why would this work just fine 2 weeks ago, but now won't?

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