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Transfer data between an AS/400 and a PC using FTP on the AS/400 side.

The basic idea is:

            OVRDBF     FILE(INPUT) TOFILE(srclib/srcfile) MBR(srcmbr1)
            OVRDBF     FILE(OUTPUT) TOFILE(srclib/srcfile) MBR(srcmbr2)
            FTP        RMTSYS(remotesysname)
            DLTOVR     FILE(INPUT)
            DLTOVR     FILE(OUTPUT)

Before doing this, you need to load srclib/srcfile(srcmbr1) with the FTP script for the particular file you're going to download.

userid password
ASCII
GET c:\temp\testfile library/file.member (REPLACE
QUIT

Output looks like this:

0001.00 Output redirected to a file.
0002.00 Input read from specified override file.
0003.00 Connecting to host name REMOTESYSTEMNAME at address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx using port 21.
0004.00 220-QTCP at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
0005.00 220 Connection will close if idle more than 5 minutes.
0006.00 215  OS/400 is the remote operating system. The TCP/IP version is "V3R1M0".
0007.00 Enter login ID (userid):
0008.00 331 Enter password.
0009.00 230 userid logged on.
0010.00 250  Now using naming format "0".
0011.00 257 "library" is current library.
0012.00 Enter an FTP subcommand.
0013.00 > GET c:\temp\testfile library/file.member (REPLACE
0014.00 200 PORT subcommand request successful.
0015.00 150 Retrieving member MEMBER in file FILE in library LIBRARY
0016.00 250 File transfer completed successfully.
0017.00 498070 bytes transferred in 171.009 seconds. Transfer rate 2.913 KB/sec.
0018.00 Enter an FTP subcommand.
0019.00 > QUIT

Note that you need to have a program read the output looking for the "250 File transfer completed successfully." message to determine if it was successful.

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