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Automatically save, FTP and restore objects to a remote system from a single command

Andy Norton
07.19.2004
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This tool allows you save, FTP and restore up to 10 objects at a time to a remote system using a single command. The command prompts you for the object names, the library name, the object type, the remote system name (or IP address) and your password on the remote system. The additional parameters that appear after pressing F10 allow you to change the name of the library that the objects are restored to, or alter the user name, the FTP logs in as on the remote system. (The default is the same user ID you are using on the sending system.) The program works by saving the objects to a save file in QTEMP, building an FTP script, sending the save file via FTP to the remote system and issuing the restore command in the same FTP script. Nothing needs to be loaded on the remote system. (The FTP server must be started though.) The program wil

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l work as long as you have a user ID with sufficient authority and the remote operating system on the target system is the same level or higher than the sending system -- although the program could easily be modified to save at a previous release.

Debugging FTP failures
The program will create a file called FTP in QTEMP which has two members (FTPIN and FTPOUT). You can look at these members to examine the FTP script that was run on the remote system (FTPIN) and look at the response received (FTPOUT)

I'm currently working on a similar tool to provide the same functionality for IFS objects.

Installation

Firstly, you will need to create a simple DDS source member called FTP in QGPL/QDDSSRC. This defines the FTP script file and log file.

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