Re: Fix Central removes use of MGET for PTF downloads with FTPS

[Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've just gotten into the habit of using FileZilla to bring them to a PC
first and then sending it to the IBM i.

Yes, they still support ftp, however they make it insanely complicated in a
'stick' approach to get you to use SFTP instead.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 8:40 AM Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <
midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You can't make this stuff up:
>
> "The Fix Central Team has determined that because of a potential
> security risk the use of the * sign is no longer allowed on FTPS file
> transfers."
>
> So no more 'mget *.bin' in your download scripts.
>
> IBM Made this change a bit ago but didn't say anything about it. The
> email you get with the instructions will be updated to mention this new
> restriction. IBM Suggest that to automate this, make the connection, do
> a DIR with output redirected to a file, then process that file and run
> individual GET commands for each of the bin files.  yeah, I'm gonna do
> that.... NOT.
>
> Alternatively of course, one of the emails that comes indicating your
> files are ready does list the files. So ou could copy and paste those
> names from the email into your download script.
>
>
> Now, for whatever However you may continue to use splat with SFTP. Thus
> it's much more likely I'm gonna do this instead.
>
>         DrF
>
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