Send an LRECL command to the mainframe

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I have a need to send site commands to allocate an mainframe dataset, how can I do that using the SFTP product? I don't see any methods or properties that I can set in order to accomplish this task.

I need to be able to send the following command:

QUOTE SITE RECFM=FB LRECL=100 BLOCKSIZE=27900

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Accepted Answer

The QUOTE SITE sequence is used in FTP and FTP/SSL clients for sending commands to the server. I don't recall any SFTP server which uses them. Are you sure that you are using the SFTP?

For differences between SFTP, FTPS, FTP and FTP/SSL see http://www.rebex.net/kb/secure-ftp.aspx

Following code demonstrates how to use SITE command using Rebex FTP:

// create client and connect 
Ftp client = new Ftp();
client.Connect("ftp.example.org");
client.Login("username", "password");

// send SITE command
// note that QUOTE and SITE are ommited. QUOTE is command line ftp syntax only.
client.Site("RECFM=FB LRECL=100 BLOCKSIZE=27900");

// disconnect 
client.Disconnect();

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