As I said in my post#2, use of a .netrc file should avoid the need to supply a userid/passwd for the ftp server.
Yes, many times I have built a command file to input to ftp:
and it works fine. You have to be careful of how to trap errors though. You also need to ensure that the last line of your command file is 'quit' to ensure control is passed to the next line of your script when ftp operation is done.
When you say that it doesn't work; in what way????? Error message or what? Give us all a clue.
Do you need to use a non-standard ftp port? If not, why try and specify it?
In the above code, I am creating a batch file on the fly and using it in FTP command.
Is the usage correct? I don't see it working.
The correct format for using a here document would be something more like:
But, the AIX ftp man page that I have access to doesn't include a -s option. And, if you're trying to use ftp to copy the content of the file named by the expansion of $TMP_BATCH_FILE from AIX to MVS, the correct way to do that would be something like: put $TMP_BATCH_FILE
not catting a binary file into a here document.
Alternatively, you could use simple redirection instead of a here-document:
And, of course, unless the FTP protocol includes character set translations when moving from AIX to MVS... since AIX works in ASCII/ISO 8859-1/UTF-8 and MVS works in EBCDIC, you may also need a step somewhere to convert your ASCII requests and file contents into EBCDIC. One possible way to do that if you need to is with dd conv=EBCDIC or dd conv=IBM depending on which variant of EBCDIC is used on your target MVS system.
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As I said in my post#2, use of a .netrc file should avoid the need to supply a userid/passwd for the ftp server.
Yes, many times I have built a command file to input to ftp:
and it works fine. You have to be careful of how to trap errors though. You also need to ensure that the last line of your command file is 'quit' to ensure control is passed to the next line of your script when ftp operation is done.
When you say that it doesn't work; in what way????? Error message or what? Give us all a clue.
Do you need to use a non-standard ftp port? If not, why try and specify it?
Hi hicksd8,
Thanks much for your response.
The intention was not to bump posts.
I was able to connect to the MVS password less using .netrc and give the command to put files into mvs.
Whereas when i create a file dynamically(because i dont know the number of files I will have at any point which is to be ftp'ed) and use it in Ftp command its not working properly.
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
The correct format for using a here document would be something more like:
But, the AIX ftp man page that I have access to doesn't include a -s option. And, if you're trying to use ftp to copy the content of the file named by the expansion of $TMP_BATCH_FILE from AIX to MVS, the correct way to do that would be something like: put $TMP_BATCH_FILE
not catting a binary file into a here document.
Alternatively, you could use simple redirection instead of a here-document:
And, of course, unless the FTP protocol includes character set translations when moving from AIX to MVS... since AIX works in ASCII/ISO 8859-1/UTF-8 and MVS works in EBCDIC, you may also need a step somewhere to convert your ASCII requests and file contents into EBCDIC. One possible way to do that if you need to is with dd conv=EBCDIC or dd conv=IBM depending on which variant of EBCDIC is used on your target MVS system.
Thanks Don.
Since I am polling a directory and don't have any idea of how may files will be there at any given moment, I will have to go by the approach of creating a dynamic file list and give it as input to the ftp command.
I try with your approach and get back here.
To answer your question., the file is already in EBCDIC format and just needs to be transferred in binary mode.
I have implemented this., now I want to verify the file
1. To check if file is transferred
2. The file is not corrupt
I have achieved (1) using nlist over FTP., later after closing FTP connection I would grep the nlist target file and get to know if the file is transferred to mainframe.
I am having challenge to ensure we have same bytes transferred to MVS.
I can generate cksum in AIX Unix before/after transferring the file to get checksum and byte size of the file.
may I know how do i get that over FTP for the file transferred to mainframe.
so I can verify both the checksum and bytes.
This discussion thread is an extension to what was discussed in Shell scripting section.
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