Hi Peter, I don't have a JCL but a couple of thoughts on this.
SFTP works via SSH. The default supplied by IBM doesn't support data set access as part of SFTP. You can only access files and directories in USS. You would have to copy from the data set to a file, convert the encoding (if required) and then SFTP to your target destination. There are third party products out there that also support data set access through SFTP. If you have DSFS configured on your system, you may try to use DSFS together with SFTP. I haven't tried it but it may/should work. That way you can save the copy. Either way, you would be coding a BPXBATCH/shell script. FTPS (which doesn't use SSH under the covers, but regular FTP) supports data set access just like FTP does. If that's an option, it's a bit easier to access data sets directly. It depends whether your partner system supports FTPS at all. Host key verification should ideally be done manually: During the initial setup process, you get the host key(s) from the partner system and add them to the known_hosts file on z/OS. On that note: DNS has the option to save host keys using the SSHFP record set. Unfortunately, not many people use it. But that way you can actually refer back to DNS for the host key. (This requires the partner system to publish their host keys to DNS.) I think it's an underrated feature and should be used way more ;-) HTH Cheers - David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
