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Activities that populate list variables are often followed by a LOOP processing sequence directive or other constructs to process the contents of the list.  Refer to Variables and Lists for more information about the use of list variables.

An email Event notification named FTPINFAILED is available in this Activity. If this event is active and a failure occurs in this Activity, then an email will be sent. Refer to Event Maintenance for setting up Event notifications.

INPUT Parameters:

FTPCONFIG: Required

This parameter should contain the name of an FTP Configuration with type of Inbound. This Configuration can be created and maintained using the FTP Configuration option in the Navigator.

If this parameter is not provided or is not found, this Activity will return an error and processing will be abandoned.

REMOTEDIRECTORY: Optional

If it contains a non-blank value it will be used as the directory on the remote host from which files are retrieved. If this parameter is not provided, then the remote host directory from the FTP Configuration will be used.

LOCALDIRECTORY - Optional

If it contains a non-blank value it will be used as the local directory into which the retrieved files are placed. If this parameter is not provided, then the local directory from the FTP Configuration will be used.

GETLIKE – Optional

This parameter specifies a pattern to identify the files to be retrieved from the remote host.For example:  (1) the pattern '*.ord' will retrieve files with a file extension of 'ord', (2) 'ord*' will retrieve files whose names start with the characters 'ord', irrespective of the file extension.

If specified, the value of this parameter overrides the specifications in the FTP inbound configuration for Get like pattern.  If this parameter is not specified, the values in the FTP inbound configuration for Get selection and Get like pattern will apply.

OUTPUT Parameters:

FILELIST

Specifies the name of a list variable that will contain a list of files retrieved from the remote host. The list will contain only the file name.
For example:   order5.csv

FILEPATH

Specifies the name of a list variable that will contain a list of files retrieved from the remote host. The list will contain the full path and file name.
For example:   /inftp/order5.csv

This list may be used as an alternative to the FILELIST

Processing

This Activity uses either the LANSA Integrator FTPService or SFTPService (depending on FTP configuration choices).

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