Run Your FTP Using Batch Job

The FTP process that is run through an interactive job is quite worrying if the object we are going to transfer is quite large and takes a long time. If the terminal connection is lost or the pc/laptop hangs, the FTP process will terminated. Therefore, to keep the things above from happening, we can do the FTP process using a batch job.

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AS400 CLP Using CAT/BCAT/TCAT

Combining the two character variables on the AS400 CLP can use CAT, TCAT or BCAT. Here are the details:

  • CAT – concatenates 2 strings according to variable length (as is).
  • TCAT – concatenates 2 strings by ignoring variable lengths and removing trailing blanks for the first variable.
  • BCAT – concatenates 2 strings by ignoring variable lengths, removing trailing blanks on the first variable and adding spaces between the two variables.
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