Secure File Transfer Examples Using the z/OS Client

Interactive File Transfers
Unattended File Transfers

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 6.3) can be used for interactive and unattended file transfers to and from a mainframe running Tectia Server for IBM z/OS 6.4. 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 6.3. Examples of interactive and unattended secure file transfers using the scpg3 and sftpg3 clients.

	Interactive file transfers	Unattended file transfers
scpg3	Remote Unix file into MVS data set MVS data set to remote Unix file Remote Windows text file into PDS member Remote Windows text file into fixed block PDS member z/OS binary file to another z/OS system	Remote file into MVS data set MVS data set to remote Windows file MVS data set to remote Unix file using translate table Remote file into pre-allocated MVS data set Remote Unix ASCII file into PDS member Remote Windows ASCII file into PDS member
sftpg3	Unix file to z/OS VSAM ESDS data set using filename-matched profiles File listing and several interactive file transfers between z/OS and Unix	Remote ASCII file into data set member Run sftpg3 using a batch command file