Hello All @ 3000-l,

RE: FTP vs.. DSCOPY performance.

The enhancement to FTP to support CM and NM ksam was SR 5000643163 completed 96/05/23 for a customer you might be familiar with:  "COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATION"  ;-)

Prior to MPE/iX 5.5, FTP/iX was a "for purchase" product.  All most all of the features/enhancements documented in the FTPDOC.arpa.sys file are since in was changed to be a "free" distribution with FOS.

Note:  At this time 1996 I took over documentation of the FTPDOC.ARPA.SYS and it currently includes the documentation of all non-standard (not included in FTP Reference Manuals) features of FTP/iX.  If I missed any let me know.

Regards,
  James Hofmeister



Brice Yokem <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
FTP was enhanced a long long time ago in a place far far away... to
support transfer of most of the file types "unique" to MPE. This was
achieved by creating a proprietary transfer mode for MPE to MPE
transfers. Documentation on this feature can be found in the FTP "new
functionality" news file FTPDOC.ARPA.SYS... These changes included
successful transfer of CM Ksam and NM Ksam files... The only outstanding
problem with FTP and Ksam that I am aware of is FTP/iX fails to transfer an
empty CM Ksam file.

If you have found a problem with FTP and transfer of a Ksam file, you
should report it to the HP-Response Center.

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James - This problem occurred at another site where I no longer work
(The FTP issue is one of many reasons why) but thanks for the information.

This was about 7 years ago or more, and I would not be surprised to find
out the systems people there did not know about this enhancement, if it
even existed then. I AM sure that if enhancing this cost a nickel more
a year then the plain vanilla version, it would not have 'existed'.

Their answer was to build a job to create the file and write a program
to initialize the file.

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Regards,

James Hofmeister
Email: <first>.<last>@hp.com
Hewlett Packard - Global Solutions Engineering (WTEC)
P.S. My Ideals are my own, not necessarily my employers.

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