Re: Dynamic FTP script creation

"RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 03/24/2016 01:00:04
PM:

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23 Mar 2016 17:53:49 -0400 -----

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Re: Dynamic FTP script creation

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:31 PM, Tyler, Matt
<matt.tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

FTPAPI is great but I believe it's not secure enabled; we need

secure connections in most of our FTP process outside the company.
More and more our vendors are asking for SFTP file transfer.

We use two methods. FTP2 from TAATOOLs or SFTP from GOANYWHERE

Managed File Transfer. If you need SSH FTP capabilities this GA is
really great.

I think it's both true and desirable that more and more companies are
using SFTP.

It's also true that Scott's FTPAPI, while probably the best way to
interface with FTP through RPG, doesn't handle SFTP:

https://scottklement.com/archives/ftpapi/200509/msg00017.html

One no-monetary-cost option for SFTP on the i is iSeriesPython and the
pysftp module, which I find very easy to use. There are also several
free options on PASE.

John Y.

If you can understand writing shell scripts, you can use SFTP in PASE (or
I believe in QShell, as well). It's included with IBM i and it's free. I
write shell scripts which generate the SFTP scripts. Shell scripts are
definitely foreign to IBM i programmers, but they are very powerful.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way International
www.TheWay.org