Re: trouble after upgrading FTPAPI

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> When I run my FTP commands script, NAMEFMT 1 works for me, however, It does
> not work in a RPGLE program.

You have to understand that there are two computers involved. There's the 
client and the server.  Therefore there are two places where the format of 
path names is important to know.

In a standard IBM FTP script, the "NAMEFMT 1" command would chnage BOTH 
the server and the client to use name format 1 (IFS-style naming)

The IBM FTP client also gives you the ability to send "SITE NAMEFMT 1" if 
you want to change it on the server but not on the client, and "LOCSITE 
NAMEFMT 1" if you wnat to change it on the client but not on the server.

NAMEFMT is an iSeries-specific thing. It does not exist on any other 
computer platform that I'm aware of.  It's not part of the official FTP 
specification.  That's why you have to use the QUOTE command to send the 
NAMEFMT command from Windows FTP command line -- because it's not 
available in the Windows client.

Anyway -- FTPAPI does not understand naming format.  It's always NAMEFMT 
1, it's never anything else.  Why?  Because I didn't see the point.  You 
can send or receive ANY file on your system through NAMEFMT 1.  For 
example if you want to send the contents of a file named CUSTMAS in 
library QGPL, you could use the following path:

    /QSYS.LIB/QGPL.LIB/CUSTMAS.FILE/CUSTMAS.MBR

So, there's really no reason to have a NAMEFMT 0.  You can do everything 
with NAMEFMT 1.

FTPAPI does not support NAMEFMT 0.  Only 1.  When you use the FTP_namfmt() 
API to change the name format, all it does is send the command to the 
server to change the server's notion of the name format.  It does not 
change it in FTPAPI.  FTPAPI still expects you to use NAMEFMT 1, no matter 
what you do.

In your case, you've got it sending NAMEFMT 1 to the server, and the 
server doesn't understand it (it's probably not an iSeries.)  This is 
accomplishing nothing.  Remove the NAMEFMT stuff from your RPG program, 
you don't need it.

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