Sender File Adatper - AS400

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'd really appreciate any help if folks have the time....

We are running a file to file scenario.

It all works fine if my sender adapter is configured to point to a shared directory on a PC (or Server) both on and off our domain. The file is picked up processed and dropped off.

e.g. sender adapter directory //192.168.11.29/XI/SELLCODE

On the IP above, user XI1ADM (XI1 is our XI SID) has been set up as a local user.

However if I change the sender adapter so that it points to a shared directory on the IFS of our legacy AS400 system (//128.1.1.1/XI), the adapter fails with error "directory //128.1.1.1/XI does not exist".

We have XI running on Windows Server 2003. From the server I can ping 128.1.1.1. I can also go Start->Run and enter
128.1.1.1\XI. This brings up a user-log-on window (I log on as AS400 user XI1ADM). If i complete this I can get access to the directory and can open and manipulate the file.

I am thinking that it is this AS400 authentication that is preventing XI from seeing the AS400?? But don't know how to get round it???

I have created the user XI1ADM on the AS400 and given it full rights (as good measure I have created all the other XI... users but no good!)

I have set it so that on the IFS the XI share is owned by the user XI1ADM and it has full read / write abilities. I have set the share to have anonymous user access, based on user XI1ADM.

Looking at the trace files in the Java Administrator, the message just says Sender Channel //128.1.1.1/XI does not exist.

I know that the File adapter is set up as an NFS adapter. Yesterday I started the NFS server service on the AS400 and exported the directory. But I don't know how to mount it to the XI server..... maybe this is a red herring?

Any help would be very much appreciated. I am sure I'm just overlooking something. I know from looking at the forums that some users have got the AS400 file adapter working (Manish Agarwal) I just can't get it to play!

Many thanks,

Claire

[MichalKrawczyk · Accepted solution]

Hi Claire,

can you try using FTP (passive if possible)

on your AS400 ?

then you could use the sender adapter in the ftp mode

this mode is slower but you can try if this will be sufficient for you

Regards,

michal

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[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Michal

Thanks for getting back to me. I was thinking of using FTP as a possible solution, and we are going to try using it, but ideally I did want to be able to pick the file up from the AS400 itself.

Many thanks for your help,

Claire

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi

I've had a busy day learning about NFS and Windows Server and have solved the problem.

I've put some notes below incase anyone else has the same problem. For me, it has been a huge learning experience on AS400 IFS, NFS and Windows NFS. Not sure I wanted to know all this but it seems I need to for XI!

The XI server did not have NFS for Windows installed on it, hence I could not mount the drive or authenticate - but I can now, having installed it!

I made sure that NFS was running on AS400 and that the directory I wanted to use had been exported.

There is a great Redbook from IBM about using NFS. If you put NFS and Iseries into Google it is one of the first links that comes up.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg242158.html

Then on the Windows Server, I added the AS400 drive, by adding it as an explicit server in the NFS network - Favourite LAN in My Network Places.

I also mapped a drive to this location, using the XI1ADM user I had created in AS400. This effectively soft-mounts the directory to the AS400.

I ensured the sender adapter was using the mounted directory (as //128.1.1.1/XI - not the drive letter, as these don't seem to work in the file adapters), activated the sender adapter and held my breath. And it worked!!!!! Phew!

[Former Member]

Sorry for the slight abuse of the SDN but I was looking for information about XI adapters and recognised the name. Drop me a line, I'd be interested to hear what you are doing.

[Former Member]

Hi Claire,

Can you pls explain what you are doing? I had a scenario of connecting AS400 to SAP R/3. I used JDBC sender adapter to access the file or table in AS400. Can you tell me how you made it work along with the attributes of sender commn channel(file).

Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Jai Shankar.