Secure File Transfer Examples Using the z/OS Client

Interactive File Transfers
Unattended File Transfers
File Transfers Using REXX Scripts and a JCL Procedure

The client component of Tectia Server for IBM z/OS contains two file transfer applications, scpg3 and sftpg3.

scpg3 is a secure replacement for remote copy (rcp) and provides easy secure non-interactive file transfers.
sftpg3 is a secure replacement for FTP and provides a user interface for interactive file transfers and a batch mode for unattended file transfers.

The following examples (summarized in Table 6.2) can be used for interactive and unattended file transfers to and from a mainframe running Tectia Server for IBM z/OS 6.3. The same examples apply to file transfers against Windows and Unix servers. In these examples, the ssh_ftadv_config.example file transfer profiles are used. See File Transfer Profiles for more information.

Table 6.2. Examples of interactive and unattended secure file transfers using the scpg3 and sftpg3 clients.

	Interactive file transfers	Unattended file transfers
scpg3	A Unix file transferred to a z/OS sequential data set A z/OS sequential data set transferred to a Unix file A Windows text file transferred to a z/OS partitioned data set member A Windows text file transferred to a z/OS fixed block partitioned data set member A z/OS binary file transferred to another z/OS system	A Unix file transferred to a z/OS sequential data set A z/OS sequential data set transferred to a Unix file A Unix file transferred to a z/OS sequential data set A Windows file transferred to a partitioned data set member
sftpg3	A Unix file transferred to a z/OS VSAM ESDS data set using filename-matched profiles File listing and several interactive file transfers between z/OS and Unix	Batch file transfer with two file transfers Batch file transfer without a separate batch file