Originally Posted by hicksd8

Please do not bump posts, it's not allowed.

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:

Code:

$ ftp 'ftpserver' < 'command file' 1> /dev/null

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?

Originally Posted by Don Cragun

The correct format for using a here document would be something more like:

Code:

f_FTP_MVS()
{
	ftp -sinv $REMOTE_SERVER $REMOTE_PORT <<EOF
user $REMOTE_USER $REMOTE_USER_PASS
type binary
passive
$(cat $TMP_BATCH_FILE)
bye
EOF
}

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:

Code:

f_FTP_MVS()
{
	echo "user $REMOTE_USER $REMOTE_USER_PASS" > "$TMP_BATCH_FTP"
	echo 'type binary' >> "$TMP_BATCH_FTP"
	echo 'passive' >> "$TMP_BATCH_FTP"
	echo "put '$TMP_BATCH_FILE'" >> "$TMP_BATCH_FTP"
	echo 'bye' >> "$TMP_BATCH_FTP"
	ftp -sinv "$REMOTE_SERVER" "$REMOTE_PORT" < "$TMP_BATCH_FTP"
}

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.