Sending requests to the FTP client API

This topic contains the description, syntax, parameters, and other related information for each of the following requests submitted to this API:
  • INIT
  • SCMD
  • POLL
  • GETL
  • TERM
Note: The text in this topic sometimes uses shorthand when referring to results. When a request is said to return FCAI_IE_LengthInvalid, for example, it means that FCAI_Result contains FCAI_Result_IE and FCAI_IE contains FCAI_IE_LengthInvalid. See Interpreting results from an interface request.

This topic provides information on the Cobol, C, assembler and PL/I programming languages. For REXX programs, see FTP client API for REXX function.