This topic describes the steps of issuing the INIT request.

Perform the following steps to issue the INIT request:

1. Optional: Specify start parameters for the FTP client.
2. Optional: Specify a list of environment variables to pass to the FTP client.
3. Initialize the FCAI.
   1. Clear the entire block to 0.
   2. Set the eyecatcher (or FCAI-Eyecatcher) to FCAI.
   3. Set the size field (or FCAI-Size) to 256 or greater.
   4. Set the version number (or FCAI-Version) to 1.
4. Set FCAI-ReqTimer to the desired value.
5. Set FCAI-TraceIt as desired for tracing. A request that initiates the interface trace also uses FCAI-TraceID and FCAI-TraceSClass.
6. Issue the INIT request.
7. Check the result of the request.
8. Check the results from an implicit OPEN, if one was performed.
9. Optional: Retrieve the FTP client output with GETL.