Chapter 8 Secure File Transfer Using Transparent FTP Security

Table of Contents

Introduction to Transparent FTP Security

Transparent FTP Tunneling
FTP-SFTP Conversion
Summary of Configuration Steps

Configuring SOCKS Proxy

The ssh-socks-proxy-config.xml configuration file
Storing Remote Server Host Keys

Creating the SSHSP User

Running SOCKS Proxy

Starting ssh-socks-proxy Manually under USS
Running ssh-socks-proxy as a Started Task
Stopping ssh-socks-proxy
Reconfiguring ssh-socks-proxy

Configuring FTP

Editing the FTP Client Configuration
Creating the SOCKS Configuration

Examples of Transparent FTP Security

System-Wide Transparent FTP Tunneling with Fallback
JCL-Specific Transparent FTP Tunneling or FTP-SFTP Conversion

In addition to secure file transfer with SFTP command-line clients, Tectia Server for IBM z/OS provides ways to secure existing FTP file transfers transparently. These are transparent FTP tunneling and FTP-SFTP conversion.

Even though settings related to transparent FTP security are made at the FTP client side, they usually require administrator privileges.