Hi,

I am Arun from HP ISO, Bangalore working on FTP product for MPE/iX.

Recently  we  received  a request  for  enhancing  FTP/iX  to  support
database  files.  I am  currently  investigating  the  usefulness  and
possibilities of this enhancement request.

Enhancement proposal:

The request was to have a FTP command  called DBMGET to "copy all PRIV
mode  files  with  entries in the root file that are part of the given
TurboIMAGE database".


For  example,  for  TurboImage  database  with root file  name as ZZZ,
DBMGET  ZZZ  should  copy all the  related  privileged  files  for the
database  (such as  ZZZ01,  ZZZ02 and so on for  datasets,  zzz01.001,
zzz01.002 and so on for the jumbo data set ZZZ01).

Alternative:

The current  version of FTP, which is in beta testing now and planning
to be part of 5.5 Express 3, supports  FTPing  privileged  files.  So,
the above can be achieved by the FTP command  "MGET ZZZ@" for datasets
and "MGET ./zzz@" for jumbo data sets.

Questions:

With MGET supporting privileged files, do you still require the DBMGET
command?.  If so, why MGET is not sufficient?


Looking  forward  to your  timely  response  on this  issue.  We would
appreciate your response by May 8, 1997.


regards,

Arun G CSY R&D India, Bangalore