HTTPS and FTP enhancements

SMP/E uses HTTPS and FTP to communicate with servers for the RECEIVE ORDER and RECEIVE FROMNETWORK commands, or the GIMGTPKG service routine. As a result, SMP/E relies on an available and operational network, and operations might fail when network outages occur. SMP/E has added retry capabilities for HTTPS and FTP operations that fail because of an apparent network outage. This helps prevent SMP/E operations from failing because of short lived network outages.
SMP/E allows any value that can be specified as a parameter for the FTP client to be specified during the RECEIVE ORDER command, RECEIVE FROMNETWORK command and GIMGTPKG service processing. You can specify an FTP.DATA file override (-f) parameter. You can specify the FTP client parameters in the FTPOPTIONS tag in the CLIENT or SMPCLNT data set.