Rob,

Save files are a very special animal. They have to be opened as record-based files with a particular byte-length record, and they have to have special checksums at particular points in the record, or the system will not accept them.

That means that for an FTP software to load them, it must have special code inside it that understands that it's a save file, and understands how to manipulate it properly. Generic FTP software is unlikely to do that, as no other platform on earth has the equivalent of a save file that I'm aware of.

What you CAN do, however, is upload your SAVF to the IFS as a stream file instead of a save file. Then copy it across to a QSYS.LIB object using CPYFRMSTMF.




On 2/1/2013 1:45 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
The ftp server I am replacing the IBM i native ftp server with does not
support the /qsys.lib part of the IFS.
I can do a
put /mypcdirectory/downloaded.savf /someIfsDirectory.dir/downloaded.savf
but I can't
put /mypcdirectory/downloaded.savf /qsys.lib/mylib.lib/downloaded.savf

Doing all that BS we used to have to do with namefmt 0, like making sure
the save file already exists and whatnot doesn't help. Gives me a invalid
character error even though you can use dots and slashes outside of the
qsys.lib file system.


Rob Berendt



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