Re: FTP changes in V6R1

["Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm.  I have not noticed and cannot repeat the stated behaviour in V6R1. 
I just tested it again to a V5R3 system from  both V5R4 and V6R1 and got 
the EXACT same responses.

So at least to other i5/OS Sstems this seems not to be an issue.

 - Larry
 
  If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, 
thank a soldier.





> From some official IBM documentation:
"FTP changes In V6R1, the FTP client attempts to use Extended Passive Mode 

for data connections. This is a change from previous releases. Not all FTP 

servers support this new functionality and users might see the FTP550 
error before getting the data. You can issue a SENDEPSV command to shut 
off this functionality for the current session before issuing any data 
command. "

The first thing my coworkers asked me was does i5/OS V5R4 and above 
support this as a server, thus they only have to worry about external 
servers?  Those they have a concern about they can start updating their 
ftp scripts now before V6R1 arrives.

Rob Berendt