RE: Intermittent problem with FTP client V5R2 over PPP

["Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl,

Besides the OS, have you considered the hardware angle - differences in comm 
adapter, modem, modem configuration?

You said "intermittent". Do the standard IBM FTP clients work some of the time 
over the PPP connection on customer's machine?

Any chance you're using an external modem and can get a look at it when it 
locks up? That might tell you something.

When the FTP session locks up, can you start another one, or telnet, or ping? 
(just trying to determine if the whole PPP link is locked up).

-Marty

------------------------------

date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:30:18 -0500
from: "Carl Galgano" <cgalgano2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Intermittent problem with FTP client V5R2 over PPP

I am having a frustrating problem with some code that I am testing.
Basically the code starts a dial up PPP session (to a bank) from the
iSeries, after connected, it FTPs a file and then quits.  The code was
developed on my 5.1 box and has worked flawlessly (in order to test the
error trapping and recovery I had to unplug the modem, the thing never
failed!).
Today I moved the code to my clients system.  Only different is they are
running V5R2.  There is no SSL, just plain old FTP.  To verify it is not my
code, I just tried to manually start the FTP client, connect to the remote
system and enter commands.  The FTP client hung up on me.  So, it is not my
code, the only thing left to suspect is the OS.
A quick search of the archives did not bring up this specific problem.  Can
anyone shed any light?
cjg