Re: Job Triggering on FTP Completion

Dennis Lovelady wrote:

Any advice would be appreciated.

The easiest is to request that the sender code a QUOTE RCMD
SomeCmD to activate the job after [e.g. using SBMJOB], or to notify

I would be *VERY*CAREFUL* about allowing some outside agency (not in my
control) to run applications and commands on my system!!!! I'd also advise
against making them responsible for ensuring that some process runs on my
system.

Then again, they're already being trusted to open an FTP connection, so the only way to exercise caution is to be AWARE that they can execute commands through an FTP connection, and LIMIT what they can do.

I just ran a test in which I created a non-prived, "limited" user, and two commands that would do something observable in batch (in this case, their CPPs were simple CLs that did a DSPLIB of two different publicly-readable libraries). I locked the user out of one of the commands, then signed on as that user via FTP.

I could execute the command the user wasn't locked out of, but when I tried the same with the command I'd locked the user out of, it threw:

550-Error occurred on command tst07ja10.
550 Error found on TST07JA10 command..

So yes, be cautious with ANY outsider being allowed ANY unsupervised access to your FTP port!

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JHHL