RE: Run remote process from FTP client and wait until it's finished to download output

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:44:46 -0600
Subject: Re: Run remote process from FTP client and wait until it's finished to download output
From: bvstone@xxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

I agree with John, here.

I use FTP from the PC (DOS FTP client) for backups and it waits until the
program is done to complete.

Well, unless the program runs for a really long time. For some reason it
will drop the connection while a program is running (this isn't a timeout
setting on the FTP server on the i, it seems like a timeout setting on the
DOS FTP client).

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:12 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Alan Cassidy <ACassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The remote program is run using the FTP command:

quote rcmd CALL PGMLIB/PROGRAM

It appears that the script runs the next line without waiting for the

program to finish.

Is there a way to make it wait?

Um, it actually should be waiting. What FTP client are you using?
The one that comes with Windows? Are you sure that PGMLIB/PROGRAM
isn't just submitting something and then ending?

John Y.
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