Defining FTP Jobs

You can define an FTP (FTP_JOB) job to automate FTP transfers. The output is directed to the spool file through an FTP server.

Note: To run these jobs, your system requires CA WA Agent for UNIX, Linux, Windows, or i5/OS.

Required Statements

To define an FTP job, you must specify the following statements:

Optional Statements

You can specify the following optional statements for an FTP job:

Example: Upload a Windows File to a Mainframe Data Set

This example uploads a file named TESTS to the mainframe. By default, the REMOTEFILENAME statement uses the user ID of the logged-on user for the data set high-level prefix.

Note: To specify a different high-level prefix, fully qualify the value of the REMOTEFILENAME statement and wrap double quotes around it.

AGENT WINAGENT
LOCALFILENAME 'C:\My Documents\Microsoft Office Directories+    
WordPad\tests.txt'                                           
REMOTEFILENAME ‘TESTS.DATA'                                        
SERVERADDR MAINFRAME.COM                                          
TRANSFERCODETYPE U                                                         
TRANSFERDIRECTION UPLOAD
USER causer

Example: Download a Mainframe Data Set to a Windows File

This example downloads the data set member CA07XX01 to a Windows computer. The value of the REMOTEFILENAME statement is fully qualified by wrapping double quotes around the single quotes.

AGENT WINAGENT
LOCALFILENAME 'C:\My Documents\File Transfers\ca07xx01.txt' 
REMOTEFILENAME "'SYS4.CA7.JCLLIB(CA07XX01)'"      
SERVERADDR MAINFRAME.COM                                  
TRANSFERCODETYPE A                                          
TRANSFERDIRECTION DOWNLOAD                                  
USER lmla

Example: Download a File from a UNIX Computer to a Windows Computer

This example downloads a file from a UNIX server to a Windows computer. After the download is complete, the job completes.

AGENT SYSAGENT
USER test
SERVERADDR hpunix
SERVERPORT 5222
TRANSFERDIRECTION DOWNLOAD
TRANSFERCODETYPE A
REMOTEFILENAME /u1/test/ftpdata/textfile
LOCALFILENAME c:\test\textfile

Example: Download a Binary File on UNIX

The FTP job in this example uses a binary transfer.

AGENT UNIXAGENT
USER test
SERVERADDR hpunix
SERVERPORT 5222
TRANSFERDIRECTION D
TRANSFERCODETYPE B
REMOTEFILENAME /u1/test/ftpdata/WAmgr
LOCALFILENAME /export/home/test/ftpdata/transf.bin

Example: Download a QSYS EBCDIC-Encoded File

This example downloads an EBCDIC-encoded file named DATAFILE in the QSYS file system from an i5/OS system to another i5/OS system. The file names are specified in the path format.

AGENT I5AGENT
USER test
SERVERADDR i5unix
SERVERPORT 5222
TRANSFERDIRECTION D
TRANSFERCODETYPE E
LOCALFILENAME /QSYS.LIB/FTPLIB.LIB/DOWNLOAD.FILE/DATA.MBR
REMOTEFILENAME /QSYS.LIB/DATALIB.LIB/DATAFILE.FILE/DATA.MBR