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Rick Man
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Is it possible to use Report Caster to do this? It appears to be a one way out, push, from WF to a FTP server. I want to bring in a file in order to report on it. The Reporting Server does not have access to the FTP server. Could it? Would that help?

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Rick


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You can run an ftp script that does a get from a focexec. I just did that last week to ftp a file from the mainframe to the WebFOCUS box. Security and logon will be your big challenges. But it can be done. I would describe what we did in the security area but I'm on a Unix box and it probably wouldn't be valid for you. You will need some sort of read id to access the ftp server.


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Yep, that's what I thought. We've thought about that and then we would encypt the fex that has the username and password, and do a -INCLUDE on it. Thanks Ginny.


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Actually, on Unix, we have to run the script from a focexec. You may have the same problem in Windows. In order to do this, you will be running operating system commands. If you run them one at a time, the system will not know of the preceding command.

Therefore, I recommend that you put your ftp commands in a bat file and then run that from the focexec. You will then have to protect the bat file from viewing and changing.


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