Since you can sign on from Linux you obviously have physical connectivity. Can you ping the site from zOS to verify logical connectivity (to eliminate problems in your TCPIP.PROFILE data, e.g.).
Does sftp not support the NETRC convention the way ftp does which allows a batch job to connect without user intervention. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Brock Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Batch job to perform sftp transfer WE have a need to begin electronically sending data to a state agency which has formerly received a tape from us. They have set up an sftp server on their end and given us the user ID and password they want us to use. I can sign on to their site from Windows and from a Linux guest hosted on our mainframe but I have not so far been able to sign on from z/OS. It is not possible to start an ssh session from within OMVS under TSO. Presumably, we should be able to start sshd and sign on from a client session, but that entails some security work which has not been performed. (Given the workload on our security guy, I don't look for it any time soon, either.) This makes testing and experimenting slow. Ideally, I would like to be able to set up a batch job that can be run under scheduler control to transmit this file when it is generated. If I am reading the correct information, though, it is not possible to do this in batch mode using ID/password authentication. Can anyone say whether this is correct? Am I going to need to get the remote server to add our keys to their setup? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
