BizTalk Server Applications Integration - BTS 2002 FTP Adapter & VMS FTP Server

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BTS 2002 FTP Adapter & VMS FTP Server

John DeGiglio

2004-10-15, 9:09 pm

All,

I have tried to review all the posts about the FTP adapter for BTS 2002 but
have been unable to find a resolution to my problem. I have a receive job
set up in the FTP adapter specifying a source directory and a file mask of
*.txt. The FTP server that the job is connecting to is an HP Alpha server
running VMS. The account that we are using to connect has full privileges on
the FTP server. When the adapter job runs, files in the source directory are
successfully downloaded and processed by BizTalk Server. However, the files
are not deleted from the FTP site.

We have tried using AFTER GET commands (yes, we've used the raw FTP
commands) with no success. My concern is this: to delete files from a VMS
FTP server, it is necessary to specifiy the version of the file that you
want to delete. So if I wanted to delete all the txt files in a directory, I
would issue the command:
DELETE *.TXT;*

The problem that I think we're having using the AFTER GET command is that
the adapter recognizes the semicolon as a command separator. I'm guessing
that this is also what's causing the problem with the initial
download/delete routine.

Does anyone have thoughts on how to get this working? I have not yet tried
using a *.txt;* file mask for the job (didn't think of that until after
leaving the client site). Does anyone have experience using this type of
file mask?

Also to note.. Regardless of the AFTER GET commands that were issued, the
adapter delivered no feedback in the event log. The only messages the
adapter is logging are service start and stop messages. Is this normal? I
would have thought that if there were errors performing some of these
commands, we would receive some errors.

Thanks in advance for any help!

John DeGiglio
jdegiglio@hotmail.com

John DeGiglio

2004-10-15, 9:09 pm

Update:

I tried changing the filemask in the receive job to *.txt;* and then *.txt;1
and experienced the same behavior. Does anyone out there have feedback?

Thanks!
John

"John DeGiglio" <jdegiglio@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> All,
>
> I have tried to review all the posts about the FTP adapter for BTS 2002
> but have been unable to find a resolution to my problem. I have a receive
> job set up in the FTP adapter specifying a source directory and a file
> mask of *.txt. The FTP server that the job is connecting to is an HP Alpha
> server running VMS. The account that we are using to connect has full
> privileges on the FTP server. When the adapter job runs, files in the
> source directory are successfully downloaded and processed by BizTalk
> Server. However, the files are not deleted from the FTP site.
>
> We have tried using AFTER GET commands (yes, we've used the raw FTP
> commands) with no success. My concern is this: to delete files from a VMS
> FTP server, it is necessary to specifiy the version of the file that you
> want to delete. So if I wanted to delete all the txt files in a directory,
> I would issue the command:
> DELETE *.TXT;*
>
> The problem that I think we're having using the AFTER GET command is that
> the adapter recognizes the semicolon as a command separator. I'm guessing
> that this is also what's causing the problem with the initial
> download/delete routine.
>
> Does anyone have thoughts on how to get this working? I have not yet tried
> using a *.txt;* file mask for the job (didn't think of that until after
> leaving the client site). Does anyone have experience using this type of
> file mask?
>
> Also to note.. Regardless of the AFTER GET commands that were issued, the
> adapter delivered no feedback in the event log. The only messages the
> adapter is logging are service start and stop messages. Is this normal? I
> would have thought that if there were errors performing some of these
> commands, we would receive some errors.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> John DeGiglio
> jdegiglio@hotmail.com
>