Receiving text files to QSYS.LIB

The QSYS.LIB file system internally supports a record structure. Therefore, the i5/OS^® File Transfer Protocol (FTP) converts files received on the System i™ platform into a record structure and converts files sent from the System i platform into the FTP file structure.

Text files received on the System i platform by FTP are converted into a record structure in the following manner:

• When FTP receives a file and that file already exists on the system, the record length of the existing file is used.

• When FTP creates a new file on the system, it uses the length (excluding trailing spaces) of the longest line or record in the file as the record length of the file.

Text files sent from the System i platform by FTP are converted into a file structure by removing the trailing blanks from each line or record and sending the truncated record.

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