Re: FTP_PUT

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Al,

> I am doing an ftp_put and I need to append the day of the month to the 
> name of the file I am "putting" to the FTP server. e.g. the June 1st 
> file would be filename01 June 2nd would be filename02 etc.Is there any 
> way I can do this without coding 31 ftp_put's and choosing the one that 
> corresponds to the day of the month?

It's perfectly okay to use variables or even expressions for the names 
of the files that you'd like to PUT.  For example:

     D local           s            100A
     D remote          s             50A
     D day             s              2A

      .
      .

     c                   eval      local = '/acct/receivables/statement'
     c                                   + %editc(CustNo:'X') + '.pdf'

     c                   move      *day          day
     c                   eval      remote = 'filename' + day

      .
      .

     c                   if        ftp_put(sess: remote: local) < 0
     c                   eval      Msg = ftp_errorMsg(sess)
     c**        "MSG" contains the error message. Show it to the user.
     c                   endif


Or, if you wanted to be a little more fancy, the following code would also 
work, and eliminate the need for the extra variables. I guess it depends 
on how comfortable you are with expressions

     c                   if        ftp_put(sess
     c                                    : 'filename'
     c                                    + %editc(%subdt(%date():*DAYS):'X')
     c                                    : '/acct/receivables/statement'
     c                                    + %editc(CustNo:'X') + '.pdf'
     c                   eval      Msg = ftp_errorMsg(sess)
     c**        "MSG" contains the error message. Show it to the user.
     c                   endif

Of course, you could use /FREE to make the code a little easier to read 
(the long expressions can be difficult to line wrap, etc)

Anyway, FTPAPI gives you the flexibility to do it however you like.
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