Paul Christidis wrote:


"....It seems that the problem may exist on the HP3000 server (this
server is not directly under our control),
......
Based on the returned CI error, and by checking the access time of the test
stream file, we've determined that the stream file is being opened and
read.  I also checked the contents of 'setparms.arpa.sys' to see if the
'site stream' command has been disabled (I seem to remember someone
recently reporting that such a feature had been added to the later versions
of the FTP server), no such setting was detected."

[ans]
This almost seems like a commercial for WRQ but this whole thing is a fairly
trivial problem that can be fairly easily solved if you have one copy of WRQ
Reflection and you use their VBA that's built in.  You can script the FTP
part (actually Reflection's macro recorder will write most of it for you)
and then execute a command file on the HP 3000 that streams the job you want
to stream.  Alternatively, you can use a Reflection script to run the HP
3000 program interactively.

This can all be evaluated for free.  You can download an evaluation copy of
Reflection and install it. When you run it and turn on recording.  Then you
should run through the whole process that you wish to automate logging on to
the HP 3000, doing your FTP thing and then running the program you want to
run.  Once you are done, you can save the Visual Basic program and edit it.
Then you can run it again by simply starting up Reflection and running the
macro.  Once you have it debugged, you can turn it into an ActiveX/COM
object and use it from any Visual Basic program.  The user need never know
all of this is going on.

If Reflection is not an option, you can use what you now have based on the
wininet.dll and then logon again using a Telnet control.  You can then use
that control to either run a command file that streams the job or, just as
you can use Reflection to control an interactive session, you can use
Telnet.

Charles Finley
Transformix Computer Corporation
(760)-439-3146

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