[CLOSED] Reportcaster API and taskFTP()

Hello All,

I'm currently trying to create a schedule through Reportcaster's java API that takes a text file via Ftp and send it to report library. I managed to do so in ReportCaster GUI with a FTP task, and simply want to automate it since we have lots of schedules to build.

In order to do that, I create a TaskFTP object and assign it with all values as I would have done in Reportcaster Gui. The problem comes with the file transfer type (ASCII vs BINARY) that can't be changed through the API. While having a look at repository table BOTTASK, I can see that for a TASKTYPE of type FTP the field SENDFORMAT is set to 'A' when the task is in ASCII mode and to 'I' when in BINARY mode. So I try to use the taskFtp.setSendFormat() method, but it does not seem to change anything. And as the format is defaulted to binary, I always get an unreadable file at the end.

Any idea ? Something I should have missed ? I already read a lot in documentation/forums/helps...

Thanks for your help.

Yann

Hope to have been clear enough. Sorry for my poor english.

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Posts: 2 | Location: Luxembourg | Registered: July 16, 2009

Soon Lim

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Yann:
if you are going from one ASCII-type platform (like UNIX or PC) to another ASCII-type platform, then even if you do an FTP in binary format to send a text file, that file should still be readable at the receiving end.
only if you are going from an ASCII-type platform to an EBCDIC platform(like MVS) or vice-versa, will binary format be a problem because then the FTP server does not know it is a text file, and does not know to automatically do a ASCII-EBCDIC(or the reverse) conversion.
If this is what you are doing, look at the extension you are using for your file, eg, file.txt, or file.prn, etc, then check that out against the sendmodes.xml file in .../reportcaster/cfg to see if your extension is designated as a text format; or more simply, you can just try renaming your file extension to '.txt' and see if that works ok.

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Thanks for your answer Soon Lim.

I had a look in that sendmodes.xml to ensure that both HTML and HTM extensions were taken into account, and of course it was.

From my understanding, it has nothing to deal with FTP server, but directly from the way Reportcaster's API creates the TaskFTP() associated with the Schedule Object. I tried to used names like "dummy.txt" or "dummy.html" in order to force the format to ASCII, but it's still creating the TaskFTP() with BINARY mode. When I change it manually in the GUI, it works.

I also tried to duplicate (clone) a schedule that works in ASCII mode, but even in that case the mode is defaulted to Binary (in fact, the sendmode property of TaskFTP object I get from the original schedule is always null).

I'll open an IBI case and see what I'll get. I'll keep community informed.

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Posts: 2 | Location: Luxembourg | Registered: July 16, 2009

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