Re: Running FTP in batch

[James David Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Mike Silvers wrote:

> We are trying to run the FTP command in a batch program.  When prompting
> the FTP command, there are no parms for the username, password, etc for
> the  remote computer.  Any ideas?

We do this everyday.  Here is a short CL program that takes as parameters
the host you want to ftp with and the script containing the ftp commands:

             PGM        PARM(&HOSTNAME &SCRIPT) /* Test run of FTP +
                          batch mode */
             DCL        VAR(&HOSTNAME) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(50)
             DCL        VAR(&SCRIPT) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10)
             OVRDBF     FILE(INPUT) TOFILE(JAMES/QCLSRC) MBR(&SCRIPT)
             OVRDBF     FILE(OUTPUT) TOFILE(JAMES/QCLSRC) MBR(FTPMSGS)
             STRTCPFTP  RMTSYS(&HOSTNAME)
             DLTOVR     FILE(*ALL)
             ENDPGM

Of course you will want to change things like the library/source file that
things are located in (I use my own testing library JAMES and keep stuff
in QCLSRC).  Probably make these variables also.

A short script looks like this:

username password
cd /the/directory/of/your/choice/
binary
put <library>/<file>.<member> <remotefilename>
close
quit

Feel free to contact me with any questions.

James Rich
james@dansfoods.com

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