Re: Strange SFTP behavior

[Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not a SFTP experert.

This page suggests adding  -r :
https://bobcares.com/blog/sftp-get-not-a-regular-file/

Maybe the directory structure at the bank changed?

Sam

On 3/6/2020 3:42 PM, Terry Anderson wrote:
> We have a couple of programs that use SFTP to pull a file from our bank. The programs have been running every day for the past couple of years with no issues.  Recently they were recompiled, after which they started throwing an error that said "Cannot download non-regular file: /".  No changes were made to the SFTP script prior to the recompile of the program.  If I enter the value of &CMD manually into the QP2TERM terminal screen, the download works as it should.
>
> I have been wracking my brain and scouring the internet for the past week and a half trying to figure out what is going on. Has anyone ever seen this sort of thing before?
>
>
>
> Below is the SFTP scrip and the call command we are using.
>
>
> CHGVAR     VAR(&CMD) VALUE('sftp -vvv -b +
>               /BankName/scriptname.sftp +
>               user@xxxxxxxx<mailto:user@xxxxxxxx>: > +
>               /SFTP_Logs/verbose.txt 2>&1')
>
> CALL       PGM(*LIBL/QP2SHELL) +
>               PARM('/QOpensys/usr/bin/sh' '-c' &CMD)
>
>
> Below is the contents of  scriptname.sftp.
>
> get "Bank File Name.*" /IFS_Directory/download.txt
> exit