FTP adapter without change directory - is it possible?

Guys,
I have an FTP adapter question. We are trying to both
send and receive a file using FTP. To do this we use
the server, user ID, password (etc) and the directory
name. The directory is mandatory.
After connecting to the ftp server, XI always seems to
issuing a "cd <directory>" command, however this fails
because this target company doesn't want to give
anybody the option to do a "cd" command on their FTP
server, therefore the whole file transmission fails.
Is there any way for XI not to use a "cd"?
We could just place the file on our server and run a
Unix scripts to FTP it over, but it would be such a
backward solution.
Any ideas?
It would be a disappointment if SAP didn't think of
this.
Your help would be much appreciated, thanks a lot,
Viktor

Hi Viktor,
     What i could understand from your question is that in the FTP server you'll be writing a file in folder A and once the writing is done you need to get it moved to Folder B using a 'CD' OS command. But this OS command is not allowed in the FTP server.
    If that is the case then it will be better to write the file directly into the Folder B. But in the file adapter use the option 'Use Temporary File'. In that case until and unless the file is written fully the file will be having the name .tmp or so.
    The advantage will be the third party server could be polling the folder B for a file *.txt in that case it won't pick this .tmp file.
Cheers
JK
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