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Hi Ben,

Thank you for your email and the final version of the DLL. This DLL seems to have fixed all the issues related to the FTP both receive and send. I am able to work on my prototype and will let you know if I help from your side and keep you posted about our usage of your software.

Regards,
P

FTPReceive is now giving the following exception in the tracking:

“Receive Port 'DoITTNewPort'

NullReferenceException, Object reference not set to an instance of an object. :”

Further more the Advanced FTPSend is not working either. From the log file it seems that it never executes the PUT command. Here is the exception from the event log:

“Event Type: Error
Event Source: SmartsIntegrator
Event Category: None
Event ID: 13514
Date: 7/9/2008
Time: 11:44:42 AM
User: N/A
Computer: 137IT3FLPGUPTAX
Description:
FTPMonitor : Send Port 'FTPUpload2ADA' : ObjectDisposedException, Cannot access a closed Stream. : ”

Hi P

It all looks okay from the FTP end – do you have a wildcard filter in place, and if so what is it?

I’ve attached updated components to improve the FTP tracing to enable us to track this down. Please copy these to your installation, and then go back to the Send Port Configuration form and press OK (to reinitialise the FTP trace). Now when you run, two files will be generated (the second will have the same filename as the first, but ending in a 2, and will trace at the FTP port level). Please could you send both trace files over?

Sincere apologies that you are getting all of these problems, I can assure you that this isn’t normal and we will give you a full explanation once we get to the bottom of them.

Many thanks,

Ben

Thanks. Do you by any chance have the ‘Show Hidden Files’ option set in SmartsIntegrator? I think that could be the problem, as it then puts the –a parameter onto the LIST command, which isn’t supported by your FTP server. Please try removing this and see what happens.

Thanks,

Ben.

Hi P

Most of them can be done using the literal command, but of course there’s no passive support in the Microsoft FTP client so this won’t really work.

So instead we’ve written a test utility (attached) – please run this and enter your connection details and a trace file. Then click ‘Test’ – you should see two popup messages – please report them back along with the trace file. The second message is using a specific MVS parser, and so will hopefully yield correct results, but we’ll only really know in conjunction with the trace file. It appears that the problem is the –a parameter on the LIST command – hopefully this test application will yield a solution.

Note that you can only press ‘Test’ once – you’ll need to restart the application if you want to test again.

We’ve also added support for custom FTP or SITE commands in SmartsIntegrator after login and before and after get and put operations in order to increase flexibility – these will be in the next build (or we can send an update to you earlier if required).

Thanks,

Ben.