Batch FTP from system

Batch FTP is a process where FTP can be done via batch process. This is widely used process where we don't have any other alternative to send file to target system.

During batch FTP, commands are fired from file with INPUT override and FTP log is written to file to OUTPUT override file. Lets have an example

1.00 PGM

2.00 OVRDBF FILE(INPUT) TOFILE(LIBRARY/QCLSRC) MBR(FTPCMDS)

3.00 OVRDBF FILE(OUTPUT) TOFILE(LIBRARY/QCLSRC) MBR(OUT)

4.00 FTP RMTSYS(REMOTESYS)

5.00 ENDPGM  

Line 2 - FTPCMDS is a TXT type of member which contains list of commands. System will automatically read commands from FTPCMDS member and fire them one by one.

Line 3 – Member OUT with TXT type is used to dump FTP log.

LIBRARY/QCLSRC) MBR(FTPCMDS) data (to transfer savefile to target system) -

• username password
• cd library
• bin
• put filename filename
• quit

How to fire commands at remote system – Commands that we use in AS400 (IBMi) via commandline or in CL program can also be run at target AS400 sytem via FTP. To do this we just have to add prefix 'quote rcmd' to the command that we running.

For example – If we want to create TEST flat file of length 320 in LIBRARY then use

quote rcmd CRTPF FILE(LIBRARY/TEST) RCDLEN(320)