Re: [IBMiOSS] sFTP File Transfer Failure -- OPENSOURCE

FYI SFTP doesn't have a concept of BINARY/ASCII - it's binary all the
time, just as Jim mentioned.

If you looked at your script logs, you'd see* that those commands fail:

sftp> bin
Invalid command.
sftp> binary
Invalid command.
sftp> text
Invalid command.
sftp> ascii
Invalid command.

*This assumes you're connecting to an OpenSSH SFTP server. Different
servers could implement different commands, but I don't know of any that
implement text mode conversion.

----- Original message -----
From: "Jacob Banda" <jnbanda@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent by: "OpenSource" <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [IBMiOSS] sFTP File Transfer Failure
Date: Fri, Jun 18, 2021 12:11 PM

I'm curious now. Would passing the BINARY command to the FTP server help
avoid the encoding issues, or would you still have to explicitly work
with
the correct encoding depending on the files to be transferred?

I ask because I helped a developer set up a scheduled job that runs an
sFTP
transfer each night (using keys for authentication). The job calls a
program
that has a CL command which calls bash script, as described at this IBM
article, and I never had to dabble with encoding.
[1]https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/684869

The CL command is the following:
QSH CMD('/QOpenSys/usr/bin/sh -c "/path/to/shell/script/sftp.sh"')

The bash script is the following:
#!/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/bash

sftp user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx << EOF
binary
cd transfer
lcd /local/path/to/file
put *.*
exit
EOF

-----------------------------------------
Jacob Banda
-----------------------------------------

date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:57:08 +0000
from: "Roche, Bob" <broche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] [EXTERNAL] Re: sFTP File Transfer Failure

Definitely check the CCSID of the file. Unlike FTP, sFTP will not
convert
the EBCDIC data to whatever the other end needs. We just started using
sFTP
with a business partner and use 819 for the file we send.

From: OpenSource <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Jim
Oberholtzer
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 8:30 AM
To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [IBMiOSS] sFTP File Transfer Failure

CCSID of the job/file?

Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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