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Robert Gray
04.23.2004
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Forget about having to manually check for FTP errors. This program checks for them automatically.

This program would be called from another program, usually a CL program that is using FTP to retrieve files from a remote server. The override is to file OUTPUT, which holds the FTP process messages. The command RCVF reads the file one record at a time. If there is a message code of 4xx or 5xx, then an error occurred and the CL program would be coded to handle the error.

We have programs that retrieve files automatically on a daily basis. If the remote FTP server is down or the file does not exist, then an error message is generated and dea

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lt with by the calling program. This negates having to manually check sever status or existence of files. If you don't check the FTP messages, the FTP process will run and end without any error messages to inform of the problem.

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