Re: SAVF too large for FTP

["Sal Stangarone" <salstangarone@xxxxxxxxx>]

One thing you may want to try is compressing the SAVF using ZIP before
FTP'ing it.  Should cut it's size pretty drastically and ZIP is free
on your System i.

Sal Stangarone

On 10/2/07, Dave Snyder <Dsnyder@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I increased the FTP activity timeout on the destination AS400 to 5000
> seconds but no change other than it waited longer to come back with:
>
> Unable to send data to server.
> No response from remote host; all connections closed.
>
> Dave
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 1:51 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: RE: SAVF too large for FTP
> >
> > V5R3 supports DTACPR as well; I use it at *MEDIUM all the time.  On a
> > typical library containing PFs I get 80-90% compression.  For instance
> I
> > recently saved a 149GB library to a 17GB SAVF.
> >
> > You might also try to CHGFTPA and up the inactivity timeout.  I've seen
> > it in the past where a session would timeout even though a transfer was
> > in progress.
> >
> > --
> > John A. Jones, CISSP
> > Senior Analyst, Global Information Security
> > Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
> > tel: +1-630-455-2787 fax: +1-312-601-1782
> > john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Snyder
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 10:28 AM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: RE: SAVF too large for FTP
> >
> > We are on v5r3 on both machines.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > > Have you looked at V5R4's DTACPR(*HIGH) or *MED?  Compared to these
> > > DTACPR(*YES) is a sick joke.
>
>
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