I have no idea on the pricing for GoAnywhere but, if you go that route, you will not be disappointed. Hands down, one of the best tools I have ever worked with, and the tech support is fantastic.
I was introduced to it at my last job that I retired from at the end of 2021. I built a framework with GA on the IBM i to handle interfaces for transactions to/from the IBM i as well as our Oracle and MS servers for trading partners. FTP, sFTP, SMB, email - it didn't matter. GA makes it simple. We moved a few million files/emails annually through GA. Your thought about listing and then processing the files is a no-brainer with GA. You could crank that out in under an hour once you learn the tool.
Knowing Fortra, I'm sure the acquisition is not cheap but, in my opinion, it'll easily pay for itself.
Good luck.
Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
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Sent: Friday, January 9, 2026 8:44 AM
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Subject: RE: SFTP client
Thank you all for those great suggestions! Quite clever - I can discuss with our partner.
Brad - I thought about listing the files, but I'm not sure how to incorporate that into an SFTP script sitting on the IFS. For FTP, I use Scott's FTP API where I list the files, get/delete them one-at-a-time.
I guess I could create a second script on the IFS containing each filename and run that script?
I just spoke with Fortra regarding GoAnywhere.
Thanks ALL!
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Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2026 4:18 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] SFTP client
We are doing an increasing number of data exchanges using SFTP... I have been using the OpenSSH and scripting to accomplish this. However, we recently ran into issues where our script may have inadvertently deleted files.
The script runs "get *.csv" followed by "rm *.csv".
We think that the other party was uploading files at the same time I was downloading (several hundred or more files). So I'm looking for some way (or something) to better manage this for me.
TIA,
Greg
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