RE: FTP and long SYSCMD question

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim, 

I send a list of every library to be restored over to the target machine at
the beginning of the process. I have one program that reads this file, and
it attempts a RSTLIB &libname from a single save file name. If the save file
contains the library name, I'm good to go. If not, the program loops until
it gets a hit.

Doing a RSTLIB as a remote command is almost certain to time out on you.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Essinger
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 2:50 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: FTP and long SYSCMD question

Greetings IT GURUs,

Background:

V5R4 on both i5/os machines/partitions.

I have a process that uses FTP to get save files of libraries from one i
partition to another, and I want to submit a restore job after each library
is successfully transferred.  I have "get LibOne (R' to get the save file
and replace the existing file.  I want to do a 'syscmd sbmjob cmd rstobj
obj(*all) savelib(LibOne) dev(*safv) objtype(*file) savf(backup/LibOne)
mbropt(*all) alwobjdif(*all) job(JobName) jobd(myjobd) jobq(*jobd)
jobpty(*jobd)' (extra parms added for clarity and to make the command
longer).

Questions:

If the command is too long for the FTP line, is there a continuation
indicator like the plus sign (+) in CL source that will recognize the
following line as part of the command from the previous line?

What is the max length of a record that FTP can process?  The record length
of the current script file is 132.

Is there another way to run a submit job command (other than writing a
program for each of 50 libraries) to get the submit job command to process?

Thanks!

Jim