Re: MGET

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill..In your FTP client script, use the locsite na 1 command to
change the naming format.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:47 AM,
<William.Epperson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know that you can MGET several files at the same time by turning the PROMPT'ing feature off by using the word PROMPT during and FTP session.  I just
> tested this and it doesn't look like it's possible to do within the i.  I'm not sure how this would work for the i, but it's always worked for me when
> I was working primarily on the unix side but I don't know how to do a Massive GET from the i.  Anyone?
> **************************************************************************************************************
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> On another side of this equation.  I'm trying to put two files to an offsite location using the IFS as my storage location.
>
> I have already converted the files that I need to send into text files and saved them using a daily scheduled job.  There is a folder in root that I
> created for the purpose of storing these two text files.  I am trying to schedule a daily process to ftp these two *.TXT files up to a server on the
> other side.  I am connecting successfully to the ftp server, but I'm getting the following error:
>
> File name format not valid.  Use the format: library/file.member or file.member.
>
> PUT '/FOLDER/FILENAME.TXT'
> or
> ....
> LCD /FOLDER
> PUT FILENAME.TXT
> ...
> Both give me the same error in my ftp output.  How do I ftp something from IFS?  I can add the ASCII portion to force the transmission in ASCII, and
> that worked, but it's still griping about the naming convention.
>
> Thank you,
> Bill Epperson Jr.
> Systems Communications Analyst
> Memorial Health System
> (719) 365-8831
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> I tend to agree with the others.  You must be doing something wrong.  :-)
> Meaning, if you "think" it's all going to the same spot then maybe you're
> not in the directory (or library) you thought you were.  For example if
> your ftp script looks like
> open rmtlocation
> user ...
> locsite namefmt 1
> lcd /home/daveo
> cd ...
> mget ...
> quit
> WRKLNK '/home/daveo/*'
> 8=Display attributes
> verify "Data change date/time"
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> Now, some remote systems may be a challenge.  Take this directory listing
> for example:
> abcde.txT
> abcde.tXt
> abcde.Txt
> abcdE.txt
> abcDe.txt
> abCde.txt
> aBcde.txt
> Where did I see that?  On an i of course.  If you run into that then you
> had better be trying to mget into a subdirectory underneath /QOpenSys to
> support mixed case.
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> Rob Berendt
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> From:
> "Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:
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> Date:
> 01/14/2009 06:37 PM
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> MGET
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> Gang,
>
> I'm trying to use MGET to mass move several files from a non-i platform
> (probably a PC server or a *ix box) to the i into the IFS portion that
> looks like Windoz or *ix.   I can do it one at a time but when I try to do
> MGET, to move all files on the source to the target, I get the impression
> from watching the action the "getting" is being done for each file on the
> source but the i is trying to put all the files in the same file on the
> target (the i).   Or does MGET only work like I want on the i?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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