Re: Strange SFTP behavior

Hello Terry,

Am 09.03.2020 um 14:37 schrieb Terry Anderson <Terry.Anderson@xxxxxxxxx>:

First let me say I don't know a lot about SFTP. It is not something we use a lot around here.

Okay. Then I'd recommend to try to replace the clumsy sftp with scp, which is essentially the same.

My understanding on how the command in the CL program is supposed to work is, once the connection is made the script on my IFS which is called. That scrip is /BankName/scriptname.sftp. For clarity purposes , I should have called it /IFS_DIRECTORY/scriptname.sftp. Sorry for the confusion.

Ah, okay. Thanks for clarification.

scriptname.sftp contains the lines below.

get "FILE NAME.*" /IFS_DIRECTORY/download.txt
exit

Are there truly blanks in the file name? Could be troublesome.

No other changes have taken place on the system. Like I said before, I can copy and paste the command from the CL program directly into the QP2TERM window and it works. It fails every time when running from the CL.

I understand. I can't just see what might be the problem. It must be some variable or wildcard expansion which suddenly fails. Or, there was a coincidental change at the remote side, maybe? For a reason beyond me, "Bank File Name.*" apparently matches /. A rough guess could be that the directory you're accessing suddenly contains a subdirectory which also matches on "Bank File Name.*".

May I ask you to try:

scp -r user@xxxxxxxx:"Bank File Name.*" /IFS_Directory/

and see what will actually be downloaded. Next, try

scp user@xxxxxxxx:"Bank File Name.*" /IFS_Directory/download.txt

as (temporary) debugging aid in your script.

I'm curious about the outcome!

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