FTP Transport Method in Data Services SAP Applications Datastore

Hi,
We have SAP ECC and we are trying to install Rapidmarts for SD and Finance.When we try to run the Rapidmart Job.. We are getting the error
Error opening the file c:\temp\billingblock.daa
We are using FTP transport method as our SAP servers are Unix and DSE server is on Windows. we have an FTP server which is on Linux.
Here are the parameters iam trying to give.
Data Transfer MEthod : FTP
Working Directory on SAP Server : /DEV/Test/                   -- Directory on FTP server on Linux
Local Directory                                : C:\temp
Global directory                               : C:\temp
FTP relative path to SAP working directory : /DEV/Test/
FTP HOST Name                                          : IP Address(FTP IP Address)
User ID:                                                         :testftp
Password :                                                   : XXXXXX
When i try to run the job it's throwing an error. UserID and Password for FTP which iam using has all rights on the FTP Server.
let me know if i have to look something else.
Thanks,
Vinod

Hi Vinod,
Did you find a way to make it work ?
We have the same issue here...
Server #1 - Unix ECC
Server #2 - FTP Server
Server #3 - DataService server. (WINDOWS)
The .dat file are created on ECC server in the working directory, and a third party tool detect that directory content change and start upload the file to the FTP server.
The problem is when ECC server is done creating the .dat, I think it send the answer to DataService that the job is done. Then DS try to go to the FTP but the file is not there yet...
Can ECC do the FTP upload and then send the command to DS tha the job is done ?
Best regards,
David

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Did you find a way to make it work ?
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