RE: Attention all IBM i shops. You may not be aware of it, but FTP is changing to FTPS/SFTP (secure) before the end of June or in early July 2021.

That is FTPS or FTL over SSL/TLS. Port 990 is a defined secure ftp port. Plain text ftp is going away not secure ftp.

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


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Subject: RE: Attention all IBM i shops. You may not be aware of it, but FTP is changing to FTPS/SFTP (secure) before the end of June or in early July 2021.

Is this only for PTF download?.

What about QMGTOOLS that does an FTP to IBM?

10. FTP data to IBM

*STDFTP FTP server:
Server 1 . . . . . . . . . . . '192.109.81.7'

Server 2 . . . . . . . . . . . '170.225.15.31'

Server 3 . . . . . . . . . . . 'ftp.ecurep.ibm.com'

Server 4 . . . . . . . . . . . 'testcase.boulder.ibm.com'

Upload directory . . . . . . . '/toibm/os400/'

*BDFTP FTP server:
Server 1 . . . . . . . . . . . '170.225.222.12'

Server 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 'msciftpgw.im-ies.ibm.com'
FTP port . . . . . . . . . . . 990 Port
Secure Connnection . . . . . . *IMPLICIT *DFT, *IMPLICIT, *SSL...
Application identifier . . . . BD_FTP_CLIENT
Upload directory . . . . . . . '/IBM/*'

Try SFTP . . . . . . . . . . . Y Y, N