Re: Can you do SFTP from a batch program without invoking the -- MIDRANGE-L

Hello,

CALL PGM(QP2SHELL) PARM('/QOpenSys/usr/bin/sftp' '-b' PUT
'/Qsys.lib/dodom1.lib/dictionary.file/dictionary.mbr'  'dictionary'
(file name at other site)   'userid@xxxxxxxxxxxx')

What do you all think?

Personally, I prefer to provide the name of a shell as the first parameterto the Qp2Shell API. That way, I can use the services that the shellprovides, such as the PATH, globbing ("wildcards"), environment variables,etc. I just find it's more intuitive.


So I'd write the code like this:

CALL PGM(QP2SHELL) PARM('/QOpensys/usr/bin/-sh' '-c'
     'sftp -b /home/odom/ftpscript.sftp userid@xxxxxxxxxxx')

The first parameter to QP2SHELL is the name of an actual Unix shell. Inthis case, I picked the -sh shell that's invoked by default when you runQP2TERM... then I passed -c as a parameter to the shell to tell it thatthe next parameter (The one after the -c) is a command-line that it shouldrun.

The final parameter, of course, is the sftp command-line that it shouldinterpret and run.

Note that the -b parameter to sftp is for specifying a "batchfile" (or FTPscript) that the sftp command should run. This is equivalent tospecifying OVRDBF FILE(INPUT) TOFILE(xxx/xxx) with the native FTP client.Only difference is that it's specified as a command-line arguement insteadof with an override.... oh, and that it's an IFS file.

Then in that batch file, you'd specify your PUT command. (Plus any othercommands, like CD, PUT, GET, DIR, etc.)


Hope that makes sense.

I find myself wondering why you're bothering with SFTP if all you want todo is simply send a file. why not use SCP in that case? Just like SFTP,it's included with SSH, and it's quite simple to use...


CALL PGM(QP2SHELL) PARM('/QOpensys/usr/bin/-sh' '-c'
     'scp /path/to/inputfile user@host:/path/to/outputfile')

It's been around longer, and part of the SSH protocol longer, than SFTP,so finding support for this on Unix systems should be a non-issue.