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How do I resolve SFTP and SCP file transfer problems between my OpenVMS system and non-OpenVMS system?

April 26, 2017file OpenVMS problems resolve scp SFTP system transfer

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How do I resolve SFTP and SCP file transfer problems between my OpenVMS system and non-OpenVMS system?

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The original SSH File Transfer Protocol specified binary access to files; though the protocol has been updated to include a text (ASCII) transfer mode, many vendors have not implemented this to date. The first implementation of SCP2 and SFTP2 that Process Software offered in MultiNet v4.4, TCPware v5.6, and SSH for OpenVMS v1.0 would perform an automatic conversion of common VMS text file formats to stream-lf (Unix) format. The files types that were translated depended on the value of the logical MULTINET_SFTP_TRANSLATE (or for TCPware use TCPWARE_SFTP_TRANSLATE). In MultiNet v4.4, TCPware v5.6, and SSH for OpenVMS v1.0 the default value is that no files are converted. Beginning in MultiNet v5.0, TCPware v5.7-1, and SSH for OpenVMS v2.0, the default value is all files. The down side of this conversion is an “end of file” message for implementations that expect to transfer the exact number of bytes that was reported for the file. Though the file size estimation routine uses a number of