FTPS (SSL ftp) is not hard to set-up and deals with ordinary z/OS datasets just 
fine.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of John McKown
> Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 11:17 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CP to a fixed length output file
> 
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm working with developers to convert FTP jobs to use secure FTP.
> > The first step is to cp the MVS dataset to a USS directory so sftp can
> > transfer it.  They noticed when transferring an FB 80 file that
> > trailing blanks have been stripped off.  Is there some combination of cp
> options that would keep
> > trailing blanks intact?  I've tried -B,  -F crlf   etc to no avail.
> >
> > Dana
> >
> >
> ​Pushing my favorite, __freely licensed__, product​, I would suggest looking 
> at
> using the sftp enhancement from Dovetailed Technologies:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://dovetail.com/products/sftp
> .html&k=EWEYHnIvm0nsSxnW5y9VIw%3D%3D%0A&r=j6Xa1Y0fbuP2mfgCQ5Z
> xhg%3D%3D%0A&m=WniMiMnzcAZD%2BzBIS5GcReKsdeQoxX%2FeOtZ6N3JFz
> no%3D%0A&s=e3b477c113b7457e6bfde859bf90f240f8062cd795dea823c6b6b
> 392d13a577e
> 
> ​This builds on top of the IBM OpenSSH server code. It allows sftp to access
> z/OS UNIX files (as always) and also z/OS data sets and the JES SPOOL as well.
> Of course you still need to tell the sftp server to not strip trailing 
> blanks, as
> already mentioned by Sri.​
> 
> 
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