Re: Question about using FTPAPIR4 under V5R2

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> Are these limitations of the IBM API?

Huh?  Which IBM API?  IBM does not have an API for FTP.

> I wanted to replace our current routine with API calls so I could test 
> for errors after each step, but I guess that will have to wait.  Our 
> current callable FTP routine is a combination of CL & RPG to create and 
> execute an FTP script using the OS400 FTP command, then parse the log 
> looking for error codes.  Is this the best approach for 
> sending/receiving for the QSYS (lib/fil.mbr) format?

I don't know what the "best" way to do it is, but I suspect that the 
definition of "best" varies widely depending on your requirements.

I think you're making too much of the namefmt issue. FTPAPI uses namefmt 1 
because it's universal.  Everything you can do with namefmt 0 can also be 
done with namefmt 1 -- but not vice-versa.  For example, if you have a 
library called JOHNLIB that contains a file called TESTFILE which in turn 
has a member called MYMBR, using namefmt 0 in IBM's client you might've 
run the following command:

        put JOHNLIB/TESTFILE.MYMBR

To do the same thing with FTPAPI, you do:

      rc = ftp_put(sess: '/QSYS.LIB/JOHNLIB.LIB/TESTFILE.FILE/MYMBR.MBR')

The capabilities are the same. The only difference is a SLIGHT difference 
in syntax. You could, very easily, create the "namefmt 1" path using a 
little bit of string concatenation, like this:

 eval    pathname = '/QSYS.LIB'
                  + '/' + %trimr(Library) + '.LIB'
                  + '/' + %trimr(File)    + '.FILE'
                  + '/' + %trimr(Member)  + '.MBR'

That way, your program can receive the library, file and member names as 
parameters or have them in separate variables.

Surely this is much easier than writing a routine to analyze the output of 
IBM's FTP command?

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