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

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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