Are you seeing an ICH408I message in SYSLOG?

On Sat, 22 Jun 2024 at 05:46, Mike Schwab <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, if it stopped working before  the upgrade, the upgrade is not
> the problem.  Possibly somebody else tried to login with the wrong
> value and locked it up.  Has it been reset, or did somebody disable it
> otherwise?
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM Bob Bridges
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > My client just asked me to look into an FTP.bat script that started
> failing after we upgraded to z/OS 2.2.  It's odd; it says the PASS command
> fails, but a) the password in the script matches the password that's
> expected, and b) it looks like the password is being correctly transmitted
> during the logon process.  Here's a transcript of a manual attempt:
> >
> > H:\>ftp
> > ftp> open [IP address]
> > Connected to [IP address].
> > 220-FTPD1 IBM FTP CS V2R2 at [URL], 17:57:49 on 2024-06-21.
> > 220 Connection will close if idle for more than 5 minutes.
> > 501 command OPTS aborted -- no options supported for UTF8
> > User (10.2.11.200:(none)): [ID]
> > 331 Send password please.
> > Password:
> > 530 PASS command failed
> > Login failed.
> > ftp> quit
> > 221 Quit command received. Goodbye.
> >
> > 1) Why do I say "since the 2.2 upgrade"?  The user used to run it about
> weekly, and when it stopped working a few months ago he simply stopped
> using it.  So he has a pretty good lock on when the problem started.
> >
> > 2) Is the password itself correct in the script?  Yes:  The script
> itself was last changed in 2015.  The user showed me the script, and just
> to be sure I changed the ID's password to match what the script claimed it
> should be.
> >
> > 3) Where does that OPTS command come from?  It's not in the script.  Web
> research tells me that Win 10 adds that automatically right after the OPEN
> command.  The -d option reveals that the command is "OPTS UTF8 ON".
> >
> > 4) So does the failure of the OPTS command cause the correct password to
> be interpreted incorrectly on the other end?  No, for two reasons:  The
> original poster of an identical problem back in 2018 eventually said "I did
> receive an explanation that OPTS UTF8 ON is not the problem", and I see at
> https://support.sas.com/kb/57/165.html that this error message does not
> affect the FTP results.  Furthermore I ran FTP with the -d option and got
> this:
> >
> > H:\>ftp -d
> > ftp> open [IP addr]
> > Connected to [IP addr].
> > 220-FTPD1 IBM FTP CS V2R2 at [URL], 18:19:32 on 2024-06-21.
> > 220 Connection will close if idle for more than 5 minutes.
> > ---> OPTS UTF8 ON
> > 501 command OPTS aborted -- no options supported for UTF8
> > User ([IP addr]:(none)): [ID]
> > ---> USER [ID]
> > 331 Send password please.
> > Password:
> > ---> PASS [password]              /* this was the correct password */
> > 530 PASS command failed
> > Login failed.
> > ftp> quit
> > ---> QUIT
> > 221 Quit command received. Goodbye.
> >
> > So the correct password is getting there.  Or, wait, maybe it isn't; the
> mainframe connection didn't sent it back to the client, so it's gotta be
> Win FTP that told me what it sent.  May still be wrong at the other end.
> >
> > I gotta believe this is happening to others, and that the fix is well
> understood.  Can anyone explain?
> >
> > ---
> > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313
> >
> > /* Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me.
> > It is oil upon my head; do not let my head refuse it.  -Psalms 141:5 */
> >
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> Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
> Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?
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