You are correct!

Al Nims
University of Florida

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of John McKown
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FTP Failing with space issues

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree with Walt, you are using sftp, which is a different beast that 
> ftp and as far as I know, yes I have not worked with sftp, just had to 
> do a cursory look at it recently, but have not gone down the road, 
> sftp does NOT support MVS data sets directly, it only works with zFS 
> (USS), so you have to write to zFS first and then you can do a "!cp 
> /<unix file> //'CH2ICST.X.Y.R1'" (without the double quotes) to get it to MVS.
>

​NO!

You can NOT do a "!cp ..." to copy the file on the _server_ to a dataset on the 
_server_. That is because the "!..." sftp command runs the given command _ON 
THE CLIENT_ (i.e. your machine). Otherwise, some clever person could possibly 
do untold damage by running some arbitrary command that they just ftp'd to the 
server on the server. The thought makes me shudder.​



>
> Al Nims
> University of Florida
>
>

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