General Information on Directory Transfers

The file path can contain both forward slash (/) and backslash (\).

If subdirectories are transferred as well and there are file names that match the specified names in the receiving directory, the Creation Option must be CreateReplaceNew; if it is CreateReplace, the subdirectories are not created.

Using $(SDIR) token when receiving or sending files, file names to the IBM i system are transferred as well. and if there are file names that match the specified names in the receiving directory or library, the Creation Option must be CreateReplaceNew, CreateReplace, or Create, the file names are not created.

Selected files are sent to or received from the remote side sequentially, each with separate local and remote transaction numbers and thus separate entries in the log files. Only after a file transfer is completed will the next file be transferred.

With the exception of the new parameters listed in the Directory Transfer Parameters section of this document, all parameters are applicable per file transfer.

Maximum retry is the same for all files in the directory and the next file is not transferred until all attempts to transfer the previous one are made.

Checkpoint interval works for the directory wildcard transfers as well. In other words, if something occurs during the directory transfer and the MFT Platform Server Service is stopped, when the MFT Platform Server Service is restarted, it will finish the check pointed file, and then continue with the rest of the files specified in the directory transfer.