IBM AS/400E Chapter 8. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server

Chapter 8. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server function allows you to send or receive

copies of ﬁles to or from server systems across a TCP/IP network. In addition, the

FTP server provides functions for renaming, adding, and deleting ﬁles.

Youcan access FTP server functions via a command line interface or the

Operations Navigator (graphical user interface). Not all FTP functions are available

on both interfaces.

This chapter discusses how you start and stop the FTP server via the command

line interface and through Operations Navigator. This chapter does not document

any of the other Operations Navigator functions. This chapter deals primarily with

command line interface functions. See the on-line Help for Operations Navigator for

information about using the Operations Navigator for FTP functions.

Also, note that even though some of the functionality of the command line interface

and the Operations Navigator is the same, the actual menu commands and

parameters are not necessarily the same.

More File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Server documentation material is covered in the

AS/400e Information Center under the TCP/IP topic. For more information see

“TCP/IP Topicsin the Information Center” on page xv.

The following sections provide a brief description of the functions of the FTP server,

and some details of its limitations.

vExit points to enable “Anonymous” FTP and FTP security controls (see “File

Transfer Protocol (FTP) Exit Points”on page 553).

vTransferring ﬁles in the “root,” QOpenSys, QLANSrv ﬁle, and QFileSvr.400

systems.

vTransferring folders and documents in the document library services (QDLS) ﬁle

system.

vCoded character set identiﬁer (CCSID) support

vCreating and deleting libraries, ﬁles, and members using the AS/400 FTP server

subcommands.

vCreating and deleting folders using the AS/400 FTP server subcommands.

vSending or receiving save ﬁles and members in physical ﬁles, logical ﬁles,

Distributed Data Management (DDM) ﬁles, and source physical ﬁles.

vSending text ﬁles in EBCDIC format or converting them to ASCII (the default

format).

vTransferring binary ﬁles as is.

vUsing the current library.The TCP/IP FTP server uses the current library

speciﬁed in the AS/400 user proﬁle. If no library is speciﬁed in the user proﬁle, or

if an error occurs, the QGPL library is used as the current library.