RE: Executing remote commands in FTP

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

I was a little confused about your solution to the possibility of a timeout.
Are you saying that FTP could timeout if it's in the middle of executing
something via "quote rcmd CALL MYPGM"?

I gave that a little thought.  Perhaps I should do the script on the source
box up to and including the SBMJOB on the remote system, then quit FTP.  The
submitted job on the remote system would then do the FTP back to the source
box.  I would think that should work, eh?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Berendt [SMTP:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:30 PM
> To:   DBale@lear.com; MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Executing remote commands in FTP
> 
> Call the following CLP for each AS/400.
> OVRDBF INPUT TOFILE(myscript)
> FTP &REMOTE
> DLTOVR INPUT
> 
> The contents of myscript should contain:
> user myuserid mypassword
> quote rcmd CRTSAVF FILE(MYLIB/MYSAVF)
> cd mylib
> put mysavf
> quote rcmd RSTLIB SAVLIB(LIBTORST) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(MYLIB/MYSAVF)  
> quote rcmd CALL LIBTORST/MYPGM
> get mysavf
> quit
> 
> The only problem is that if the program takes awhile to run then FTP might
> drop.  In that case you'll have to break up the script into the following:
> OVRDBF INPUT TOFILE(myscript1)
> FTP &REMOTE
> DLTOVR INPUT
> OVRDBF INPUT TOFILE(myscript2)
> FTP &REMOTE
> DLTOVR INPUT
> 
> 
> The contents of myscript1 should contain:
> user myuserid mypassword
> quote rcmd CRTSAVF FILE(MYLIB/MYSAVF)
> cd mylib
> put mysavf
> quote rcmd RSTLIB SAVLIB(LIBTORST) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(MYLIB/MYSAVF)  
> quote rcmd SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(LIBTORST/MYPGM))
> quit
> 
> The contents of myscript2 should contain:
> user myuserid mypassword
> cd mylib
> get mysavf
> quit
> 
> 
> 
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