Receive text files to QSYS.LIB

Because the iSeries™ QSYS.LIB file system internally supports a record structure, the iSeries File Transfer Protocol (FTP) converts files received on the iSeries server into a record structure and converts files sent from the iSeries server into the FTP file structure.

Text files received on the iSeries server by FTP are converted into a record structure in the following manner:

When FTP receives a file and that file already exists on the iSeries server, the record length of the existing file is used.
When FTP creates a new file on the iSeries server, 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 iSeries server by FTP are converted into a file structure by removing the trailing blanks from each line or record and sending the truncated record.