Comments on: To retrieve data from a remote system

By: jay400

jay400 — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:41:06 +0000

You can do the following without spending any money.
Setup NFS (Network File System) where AS/400 is the client and the other system is the server. Ask the Other System Admin to export the path of the remote data to your AS/400, and you mount that path over an IFS directory on AS/400. Use cmd DSPUSRPRF to get the UID of the user under which you will run your unattended batch job that copies data from the remote system, and tell your Other Sys Admin to set this UID as the owner of everything under that exported path. Setting up owner is done during the export process. Once you mount the remote path (cmd: MOUNT) your batch job and the authorized users will access the remote data from your mounted IFS directory.

I hope this helps. – Jay

By: websphere24x7

websphere24x7 — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:00:18 +0000

You could use RFROMPCB.EXE – Batch transfer from the PC to OS/400, which is part of iSeries Access for Windows.

By: steverg

steverg — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:16:57 +0000

Why don’t you try TFTP and shell scripting for automation?

By: seconddan

seconddan — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:49:50 +0000

One solution I used at a previous (cheap) employer was to put a Wintel machine between the source and destination. After mapping drives onto both boxes (UNIX and iSeries IFS) a Windows scheduled script copied files between the two drives.