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New SENDnnn Commands
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Published: 08 Mar 2012
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New SENDnnn Commands Published by: Bob Cozzi on 08 Mar 2012 view comments(4)

I'm about to release 3 new CL commands and want feedback on them.

  • SENDOBJ - Send an object (generic/full/*all) in a library to another system.
  • SENDSRC - Send source member(s) to another system.
  • SENDSAVF - Send a save file (generic/full/*ALL) to another system.

All three use the FTPFILE command under the covers to send the content to the remote location. The first two automatically create save files and then FTP those save files, the SENDSAVF command (obviously) sends an existing save file. Up to 300 generic-enabled save file names may be specified.

I had others in the pipe line and prototyped, but these three seemed to be all that's really needed in day-to-day operations.

What do you people think?

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Posted by: Viking
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Posted: 12 years 1 months 14 days 23 hours 1 minutes ago

By the title, I thought you were going to start sending us porn...  Wink

Posted by: bobcozzi
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Comment on: New SENDnnn Commands
Posted: 12 years 1 months 14 days 20 hours 11 minutes ago

Better?

Posted by: jksee
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Posted: 12 years 1 months 9 days 36 minutes ago

We had been FTP'ing SAVLIBs from our production box to our development/backup box and found FTP to be very unreliable.  Of course these SAVLIBs are large and more than occasionally the FTPs would fail and we would end up with partial SAVLIBs.  We have switched to SNADS to send the SAVLIBS.  Much more reliable.  Needless to say, we aren't very sold on FTP, at least for large files.

Posted by: bobcozzi
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Comment on: New SENDnnn Commands
Posted: 12 years 1 months 8 days 17 hours 52 minutes ago

Of course SNADS would be better. Its a well architect protocol vs something that depends on SOCKETS to work. But... it does require that people "enrolled" to use it. If IBM would just let you send things using it without having to enroll the sender it would be perfect.