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+Network Working Group                                      E. F. Harslem
+Request for Comments: 141                                  J. F. Haefner
+NIC 6726                                                            Rand
+                                                           29 April 1971
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+             COMMENTS ON RFC 141 (A FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL)
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+   1.  A file transfer protocol is needed.  Bushan's proposal would
+   satisfy a particular current need that we have, as well as short-term
+   envisioned needs.
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+   2.  Bushan's protocol would apear to be straight-forward in
+   implementation, and extensible as claimed.
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+   3.  We would like to see implementations of such protocol be
+   accomplished such that the file transfer program has general and
+   complete access to the local file storage.  That is, it should be
+   able to access a file that it did not create.  For example, if a
+   program or user creates a file at site X (completely independent of
+   the file transfer program), it would then be desirable to be able to
+   retrieve the file via the file transfer program.  This is not a
+   requirement of RFC #114 but we would like to see it implemented where
+   possible.
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+   4.  Since implementation of a subset of transaction types is
+   specifically permitted, we suggest inclusion of the following
+   commands (in addition to append).
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+      insert records     within a file
+      delete records     from within a file
+      replace records    within a file
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+   Although these operations are not directly supported under IBM
+   OS/360, we have used them with a non-standard file subsystem under
+   IBM OS/360 and find them quite useful.
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+   5.  In addition to retrieve and lookup, get names of files under my
+   access control would be useful.
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+   6.  The absence of status requests and responses is apparent.
+   Although this is typically a function associated with a remote job
+   entry (RJE) system, since the execute request is present it would
+   seem appropriate to inquire about the status of the process created
+   by the execute command.  This becomes increasingly more important
+   where the execute is implemented as an RJE-like operation and
+   scheduling time of the job might be prolonged.
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+Harslem & Haefner                                               [Page 1]
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+RFC 141                   Comments on RFC 141                 April 1971
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+   7.  When requesting execute, the using host sends parameters upon
+   receipt of the rr response.  Executing a task can be implemented in
+   several ways.  The options our 360 affords are RJE at job level and
+   the attach macro.  Our preference would be the attach macro which
+   immediately initiates an independent OS task within the partition of
+   the program issuing the attach (presumably the File Service).  Such a
+   task normally receives parameters upon initiation and can thereafter
+   receive parameters from a program via some mechanism such as an event
+   control block.  The second method requires special modifications to
+   the program being executed; hence, it is not desirable.  Therefore,
+   we either need the parameters included in the execute command or will
+   not actually start execution until parameters are received.
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+   8.  Upon abnormal termination, one should include part or all of the
+   spurious request as well as an identify- ing code to facilitate
+   precise error recognition.
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+   9.  We would be interested in the outcome of the MIT/ Harvard
+   experiments with the RFC #114 protocol.  What were the pitfalls,
+   etc.?
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+         [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
+          [ into the online RFC archives by Simone Demmel 4/97 ]
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+Harslem & Haefner                                               [Page 2]
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