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  3. June 2023

Re: FTP question

I believe it's not a secret, rather it is a clear case of 'we've always done it this way.' Once people get a procedure in their head that says CRTSAVF then FTP into it, that process works so they just keep using it. You can tell them about the .savf extension but it goes 'in one ear and out the other' as my dad often said.

Similar too how many customer still FTP a stack of PTF images to every machine or partition when they could simply reference that stack over the network from a single machine.

They do what they know, it works, why change.

- L

On 6/5/2023 1:53 AM, Scott Klement wrote:
It was around when I wrote FTPAPI back in 1997.  (So at least 26 years)

I didn't realize it was a secret :-)

On 6/4/2023 5:21 PM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
So this trick has been around for at LEAST a decade , I think nearly as far back as Native IP has been in IBM i. One of those 'best kept secrets' apparently!!




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