Peter Please delete this posting are at least remove the company name. thanks john Question on openSSH and sending file to MVS file formats Remove Highlighting -------------------------------------------------------- Hello, I was looking for Damien Miller, Markus Friedl or Theo de Raadt to possibly answer an SFTP question. I am having trouble locating an example and think the task can not be done. Do you have an example of an unix host machine initiating a file transfer to an ibm z/OS and create a mvs file? I have examples from appendix A of the IBM Ported Tools for z?OS Users Guide that shows how from IBM jcl initiated, I shell down using the !cp command to pull it in to z/OS unix, then sFTP to the external unix machine. That works ok. I can also run an IBM mvs job and pull a file from my Tokyo site and create a MVS file, but it is running the program on the IBM side. If my client's unix Sun box in Tokyo connects to my chicago ibm mainframe, what sFTP commands to I use to create a MVS file? This perhaps? put john_sftp_test.txt "//'TEST.JOHN.SFTP.TEXT'" quit Or perhaps I need to have a file watcher running on ibm z/Os unix to run a program to complete the transfer. Thank you for your assistance. Regards, John Mull Northern Trust Bank, Chicago _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev[at]mindrot.org https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev stuge-openssh-unix-dev at cdy Feb 9, 2008, 9:02 AM Post #2 of 2 (44 views) Permalink Re: Question on openSSH and sending file to MVS file formats Remove Highlighting [In reply to] -------------------------------------------------------- Hi John, On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:15:01PM -0600, John R. Mull wrote: > Do you have an example of an unix host machine initiating a file > transfer to an ibm z/OS and create a mvs file? I'm afraid the only ones who can help with this would be those who know how the implementation on z/OS was done. I guess that is IBM. > I have examples from appendix A of the IBM Ported Tools for z?OS > Users Guide that shows how from IBM jcl initiated, I shell down > using the !cp command to pull it in to z/OS unix, then sFTP to the > external unix machine. That works ok. I can also run an IBM mvs > job and pull a file from my Tokyo site and create a MVS file, but > it is running the program on the IBM side. > > If my client's unix Sun box in Tokyo connects to my chicago ibm > mainframe, what sFTP commands to I use to create a MVS file? I suggest starting with trying to downloading files from your IBM machine, even though this is not what you ultimately want to do. It might provide more helpful error messages or hints that will help understanding the required filename syntax. Oh, and are you absolutely sure that the IBM machine actually is able to act as an SFTP server? This may not be the case. > This perhaps? > > put john_sftp_test.txt "//'TEST.JOHN.SFTP.TEXT'" > quit Does this work? Then you're all set. > Or perhaps I need to have a file watcher running on ibm z/Os unix > to run a program to complete the transfer. One option is certainly to always initiate the transfer from the IBM machine, since you've found a working method for that. You would have to set up a staging server which both tokyoclient and youribm can log in to via SFTP. It could run some common Linux or other well-known system. Hope this helps. //Peter _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev[at]mindrot.org