Execute script on remote vi ftp

[Dave La Mar]

I wish to execute a script on a remote machine
vi an ftp batch job. (This is going from a mainframe to HP-UX 11.0)
I want the script to kick off and return some sort of return code to the ftp job. I nohup the script because I do not want to wait for the script to finish executing to get a rc. The
mainframe job stream waits for some return code from the execute script before it continues.
Any ideas?
Thanks for any input.

[linuxfan]

Hi dave,

As far as i know, you cannot use ftp(file transfer protocol) to run remote scripts. ftp does have a ! option to start an interactive shell on the local machine, but that's on the machine you invoked ftp from.

However, if there is no other option but to use ftp. there is something you could try.
you could write a script on hp which is running in a loop (checking at certain interval could be 5 minutes, 60 minutes whatever) and is looking for a certain file, which you would ftp from the mainframe to the HP machine, whenever you want the job to run.
This script would save the return code in an output file, and you could ftp this output file from your mainframe and continue with its job.

Now you could also run the script on HP as a cron job, to run at certain intervals (man cron).
Not sure what kind of script you are trying to run, but hopefully this is a start.

-Regards
I am RU

[Dave La Mar]

Thanks RU. That is definitely another way to do it.
Meanwhile, I have found a way to do it with the TCPIP-tools for vse that will return control to vse on the mainframe immediately after kicking off the script.
Thanks again.