I don't run SFTP personally so I don't have an example, but it's our corporate standard for inter-platform data transfer. It can definitely run in batch.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: File transfer Red Alert AFAIK, yes (no examples available). -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: File transfer Red Alert Can I run sftp as a batch job as I can regular ftp? On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2018 16:57:18 +0000, Pew, Curtis G wrote: > >> > >> Why didn't the supplier, as a courtesy to the customer, deliver the > file with > >> the needed extension and save that step? > > > >This is just a guess, but maybe some firewalls or other policy > >enforcing > software block .jar files but allow .zip files. If you have a Java VM > on your system, .jar files contain executable code and in some > circumstances might be executed inadvertently. > > > And other firewalls block .zip instead (or also). After all, a .zip > might contain anything, including executable code. Some firewalls > have a whitelist. > And I > dealt recently with one that blocked a .eml (Forward as Attachment). > > MIME-encode it; strip headers; name it *.txt. or wrap it as *.pdf. > But don't rely on a filename as defense against malware. See: > "steganography". > > -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
