SFTP in mainframe

dharani.nagarajan · New User Joined: 11 Nov 2010 Posts: 21 Location: India

Hi,

Can someone tell me how to find if there is SFTP available in the mainframe system.

Can you please also provide me a JCL that transmitts file from Mainframe to LINUX server using sftp.

Thanks,
Dharani

Akatsukami · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:21 pm

daveporcelan · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:22 pm

My understanding is that SFTP is not available on the z/OS portion of the Mainframe.

It is available on the Unix side however.

To bridge the gap, we acquired a product called Co:Z from Dovetailed Technologies.

Without this product, we were unable to SFTP from z/OS.

janmejay · New User Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 85 Location: bangalore

To get to UNIX:

From any TSO command line type: “TSO ISHELL”, hit enter.
This brings you into the ISPF interface to the UNIX Shell.

You would see something like this

Enter a pathname and do one of these:

- Press Enter.
- Select an action bar choice.
- Specify an action code or command on the command line.

Return to this panel to work with a different pathname.
More:

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Here you need to create the directories of the file whcih will be used in SFTP.

See if this helps you.

Thanks!
PMD

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 12:54 am

Hi Dave,

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 1:26 am

check
dovetail.com

daveporcelan · Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 5:54 pm

We needed Co:Z for both the Server and Client side of z/OS.

The link Enrico provided is the company/product we have.

Do to the inportance of SFTP transmissions to our buisness, we chose to pay for the Gold level support. We found the support to be excellent.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:30 pm

Thanks for the follow-up!

If i read dovetail correctly (only a once-over) it appears that this runs under USS.

Is there nothing yet that will run a normal batch sftp client on z/OS?

I'm slow, but i will get there

d

daveporcelan · Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:39 pm

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

This always struck me as a weird gap for the IBM mainframe world.

I'm sure they COULD create an sFTP solution, I don't understand why they don't.

Is there a separately priced IBM product for this?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:44 pm

see here
www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/unix/port_tools.html

they are free for anybody having a proper zOS license

for a while they were downloadable with no concern about zOS licensing.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 1:26 am

He's BaAack,

Earlier i mentioned: "They neither want to use USS nor buy something . . . " when talking about their using sFTP on the mainframe.

Things change . . . Their requirement for sFTP now outweighs their wants.

Their support people have put something together that invokes sFTP in USS. They are just learning . . . Their process includes steps that use BXPCOPY and BXPBATCH. These are IBM's.

Is anyone successfully using something like this to send/receive via sFTP?

If you can post an example that is running, it would be most helpful. Please modify anything that is site-specific noting the change.

Most appreciated!

Rohit Umarjikar · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:25 am

Dick,

Please have a look at

ibmmainframes.com/about25333.html

looks like it was in place since before this thread...