NAMEFMT (Select File Naming Format)

The NAMEFMT IBM® i FTP client subcommand selects which file name format to use on the local system and the remote system.

FTP client subcommand

NAmefmt [ 0 | 1 ]

0
A name format only for library file system database files. The general format is:
[libname/]filename[.mbrname]
1
A name format for all file systems that FTP supports, including the library file system. You must set the name format to 1 to work with all IBM i file systems.

Library file system files in this name format are:

[/QSYS.LIB/][libname.LIB/]filename.FILE[/mbrname.MBR]

For save files, you can also use the format:

/QSYS.LIB/libname.LIB/filename.SAVF

Files in the document library services file system are in this format:

[/QDLS/][{foldername[.ext]/}]filename[.ext]

For optical, the format is:

/QOPT/volname/dirname/filename.ext
Notes:
  1. You can set the name format to 0 only when the working directory is a database library.
  2. If you specify the NAMEFMT subcommand without a parameter, the client displays the current name format.