RE: Free FTP CL Command

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I started out thinking I would just prompt the end-user for their user
ID and password, but they will be running this in batch and interactive, so
that's an issue.
I suppose I will "just" create an FTP user ID and password on each machine
and have a default user ID and password on the command itself, with the
password buried in the command processing program, something like this:
  ftpSNDFile  ....  USERID(*DFT) PWD(*DFT)

Then in the RPG IV CPP, I'd do something like:
  If userid = '*DFT'
  Eval userID = 'DFTFTPUSER'
  Endif
  If pwd = '*DFT'
   Eval  pwd = 'ROSEBUD'
  Endif

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti

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Bob,

For starters, this is a convoluted, half-though out idea that will
undoubtedly require revision in order to implement, and has more to do with
CL than RPG but here goes...

I assume speed is the reason why you are rolling your own FTP between two
AS/400's instead of using SNADS.  I'm also assuming that life would be a
lot simpler if you didn't have to worry about passwords because all you
want to do is get a file from here to there.  If SNADS were running you
could do a SNDNETMSG from system A to System B.  On System B you would have
an active job that monitored the message queue for the message.  Once it
got the correct message it would create a user profile with a predefined
password and send a message back to System A.  When the FTP program on
System A got the message it would connect to system B using the newly
created user-id and predefined password to sign in.  The transfer would do
its thing.  When done system A would send a different message to System B.
When System B saw this second message it would blow away the new user
profile.

Granted, there would probably be some object ownership issues to contend
with.  It would also require that SNADS be running on both systems and the
user profile creation job be running on System B.  There's also be the
possibility that something can go awry and the user profile never gets
deleted.  There would be other issues to contend with if multiple people
are trying to use this at the same time.

Perhaps as an alternative you could prompt for a user-id and password on
System A and send that to System B.  When the monitoring job on System B
got the message it would FTP into System A with the prompted user-id and
password and pull the file over.

So much for free advice...  :)  Good luck!


Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx




 

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I just finished a simple CL command that interfaces with OS/400 FTP to send
files to another AS/400.
The goal was to provide a CL-interface for sending a DB2 file via FTP,
something like this:

  ===> FTPSNDFILE RMTSYS(RESCUE.COMPUDESIGNS.NET) FILE(COZZILIB/QRPGLESRC)
+
              MBR(MYMBR) TOFILE(*FROMFILE) USER(BOBCOZZI) PWD(PICKLES) +
                 SRCFILE(RPGLAB/QFTPSRC) LOG(RPGLAB/QFTPSRC) LOGMBR(FTPLOG)


The command generates the FTP source script and then evokes FTP to send the
file.
It works fine and I'm very, very happy with it.
However.  the password parameter for the remote user's password is set to
DSPINPUT(*PROMPT) which means it will display the text that is typed in,
but
does not keep it when Enter is pressed. So I have to re-key it each and
every time I run the command from command entry. Obviously I could change
the source, since I wrote it, but I also don't want my passwords logged.
So here's the question that I assumed would have a NO for the answer:
Is there a way to retrieve and/or transmit a user's password for an FTP
session so that I don't have to require the end-user to enter it each time
they run the FTPSNDFILE command? I mean if they specify USER(*CURRENT) is
there a way I can also allow the PWD parm to default to PWD(*CURRENT)?
I believe there is not, but since there are just too many APIs available
today, I thought I'd throw the question it out there.


-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti

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