Re: Alternative to WINSCP

I know IBM i is really useful because of SITE & QUOTE commands, besides you
can access members on PFs, but:

* FTP is unsecure by default
*No traffic throttling
* If you perform a TCP trace you can see user/password and data
* Sometimes you experience data transformation issues
* No warranty delivery
*No compression
* Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera

I recommend to turn FTP off, use SFTP or SCP with CHROOT and transfer data
from ASCII "copies" on IFS (inside CHRooted environment).

With SFTP you know when transfer was ended abnormally so you can retry or
launch any action, your data is encrypted, you can compress, and you can
choose authentication mechanism between user/password and user/certificate
(with 3rd party products you can even use 2FA)


El 30 oct. 2018 6:23 AM, "Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
escribió:

What made you think it would? While FTP is amazingly useful, it is also
designed to be a dumb application, meaning it takes files from one place and
puts it in another. Remember when it was developed at DARPA it's only use
was to move text documents between scientists. Over time we've added
options that are very useful and has made FTP less dumb but, in the end,,
it's still just "File Transfer Protocol", an intentionally dumb application.



--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 6:33 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Alternative to WINSCP

Apparently IBM's implementation of ftp server does not support any of the
options on the ls command.
https://www.tecmint.com/15-basic-ls-command-examples-in-linux/



Rob Berendt