Conference ufhis::siemens_communication

110.0. "FTSIE$TFTRQ.DAT,USERNAME LENGTH,SINIX" by VNABRW::MISAK_G (Styria the green heart ...) Tue Jun 11 1991 15:13

    hi folks,
    
    I have a customer who has quite a lot of interesting questions.
    As I am not an FTSIE specialist and I haven't found anything in the
    documention, I thought somebody experienced could help me to answer 
    these questions.
    
    -File FTSIE$TFTRQ.DAT has old entries, if you do an
     FTSIE SHOW QUEUE you can't see this entries. I found an
     explanation in the Manual (Handbuch f. Systemmanager) which
     told me that if an INBOUND Process is stopped thru an external
     command (i.e STOP/ID) the entry in the FTSIE$TFTRQ.DAT can't
     be modified any more.
    
     HOW CAN THIS OLD ENTRIES BE DELETED IN FTSIE$TFTRQ.DAT ???
    
    -If you COPY from BS2000 to VAX the VAX USERNAME LENGTH can't be
     greater than 8 characters. WHY ???
    
     On BS2000 there is a limit of 8 characters for the KENNWORT but
     not on VMS !!!
    
    -VAX - SINIX
     If you start an FTSIE COPY on a VAX machine to get a file on a SINIX
     machine, the directory name can't be passed in LOWERCASE to the SINIX
     machine. Everything is converted in UPPERCASE. 
     Is there a switch for that in FTSIE ???
    
    
    I didn't prove that onsight, if everything is working like that in
    practise but I will check this tommorow at the customer ???
    
    May be you can give me some hints if this is possible,known or
    normal behaviour. 
    
    thanks goran

Hi Goran,


ad 1) (FTSIE$TFTRQ.DAT has old entries,...)
       This file is of RELATIVE RMS-organization, granting direct access.
       If you delete a record from this kind of file, it will be only
       marked as deleted and therefor neither be overwritten (with zeroes or
       blanks) nor "cut out" of the file. But the space of this record will
       be reused for later entries.

ad 2) (If you COPY from BS2000 to VAX the VAX USERNAME LENGTH ...)
       The central part of FTSIE is the so called "common source", 
       implementing the SIEMENS-protocols for the layers 5 thru 7. 
       The restrictions you mention, are caused by this part of
       software, and unfortunately we must not change anything there -
       for reasons of conformance and maintainability.
       Besides, the KENNWORT can be up to 16 chars long. (see A-12 in sysm. gde.)   

ad 3) (VAX - SINIX)
       As we use the CLI interface, the conv. to UPPERCASE is only avoidable,
       if the string is quoted. But quotes will lead to syntax error, as
       they are not expected/treated by the FTSIE software. Though we do
       not yet support SINIX as partner (cf. SPD) I possibly will implement
       this feature in the next release.

Regards
      Helmut 

    THANKS FOR YOUR VERY DETAILED EXPLANATION
    
    dankeschoen
    
    goran