FTP stage

ksmurthys · Post by **ksmurthys** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 10:16 am

Hi,

My source data is coming from AS/400 System n which is located in other place.I am planning to use FTP stage,Could anybody help me how to use ftp satge in my job design.

Thanks in advance.

kduke · Post by **kduke** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:53 pm

An FTP stage is kind of like reading from a sequential file. I does require a user and password. It starts processing the data before the whole file is read. It is hard to debug connection issues. I prefer ftping in a shell script and then processing the sequential file. Easier to debug. We have had issues with IBM machines automatically failing the first attempt forcing you to reissue user and password therefore scripting was the only solution. They do this to disable hacker scripts.