Re: ftp in cl

[Richard Brown <rbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne,

Our company has a product called ZMOD FTP.Client offering CL-based FTP
scripting for batch FTP.  It gives you bullet-proof scripting because you
can actually MONMSG on each FTP command and place in error
recovery/exception notification.  Scripts are compiled as CL pgms so that
they can be called from a scheduler.

I know that people on this list will tell you that you can use a text input
file of FTP commands to run through the AS/400's FTP client.  Be aware that
you do not have any capability of recovering or making a decision within
your script unless you end your FTP session.  What good is that?  If you
want this to run in the background you will want this to be reliable.  I
know that you said that certain values you have are static (for now), but
with CL scripting you can use variables to give you more power.

You can download the ZMOD FTP.Client from our page at
http://www.softwarejungle.com to try out.  We have a new version that will
be published on our page next week with some IFS related stuff like a CHKOBJ
for IFS files, automatic DB to CSV reformatting, etc.  This may be more than
you currently need but there may be some other things in it that are useful.

 

At 05:43 PM 9/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm trying to create a CL program that will perform an automatic FTP
>connection and file transfer between two AS/400's.  Does anyone know if
>there is a way to imbed the ftp subcommands in the CL.  The user and
>password, and file andm member names, will all be static.  The job will
>run once a day and overlay any previous data.  Any help is appreciated.
>Thanks.
>Wayne
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Richard Brown
TrailBlazer Systems
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