SFTP in batch

[Shady]

Just a quick question...
I want to use Co:Z SFTP Client in batch to transfer a whole PDS.
I sepearated the STDIN for Co:Z Batch so that I have a inline
STDIN and a concatenated DD:

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//STDIN        DD *                                              
USER="user"                                                     
PWDSN="hlq.hlq.llq(pw)"                                      
SERVER="server"                                                 
REMOTEFILE="//hlq.llq"                                   
LOCALFILE="//DD:DOWNLOAD"                                     
//             DD DSN=hlq.hlq.llq(COZSTDIN),DISP=SHR         

In the COZSTDIN (from last line in the code) I use my variables to set up the SFTP connection.

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lcd $LOCALFILE
cd $REMOTEFILE
mget *        

When I submit my job the output says

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Couldn't change local directory to "//DD:DOWNLOAD"

When I specify the $REMOTEFILE with the real DSN then it works.

Is there an alternate to transfer a whole PDS? Maybe it's to easy so that I don't find it.....

It would't be a big problem when I have to specify the correct DD in the REMOTEFILE but it would be a nice add when there is an other way...

[dovetail]

This doesn't work since Co:Z SFTP can't recognize a DD as a "directory" even though it is a PDS. This is probably something that we should look into as an enhancement.

To do this you would need to specify the local PDS's dsname. This could be passed into COZBATCH via a PARM from your PROC or JCL SET variable, so you could still customize it with JCL.

[Shady]

Thanks for your answer.
So I have an other question to that...
I can't use unix like if-then-else-fi in the STDIN, can I?

[dovetail]

COZBATCH is just a utility that allows you to run the Unix shell in a batch address space. So you can use any shell script construct prior to running the "cozsftp" command, which is the actual OpenSSH sftp client.

[Shady]

That's what I thought but I got an error and so I firstly asked you about COZBATCH...
I'll review my code...