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Lynn_SAS
Fluorite | Level 6

I followed the instruction here (https://go.documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=lestmtsglobal&docsetTarget=p0xln1fiwsr340n1xxf4mkmfxp6f.h...) to connect to a server at Nonstandard port. 

 

Here is my code:

FILENAME rmt sftp "datafile_today.zip"
options="-oPort=100"
host='serverIP'
user='myuserid'
wait_milliseconds=100000
cd='/'
recfm=s
debug;

 

Here is the error that I had in the Log:

NOTE: psftp: unknown option "-oPort=100" try typing "psftp -h" for help
NOTE: cd "/"
ERROR: Directory or file datafile_today.zip doesn't exist.

 

 

Updates:

After looking for possible solutions for this issue, I updated my SAS code to be as below:

 

FILENAME rmt sftp "90391660_DigitalData_20190410.zip"
options="-P = 100"
host='serverIP'
user='myuserid'
wait_milliseconds=100000
recfm=s
options="-v"
debug;

 

However, SAS can't recognize the port option. From the error message in the log, SAS was trying to connect to the server at a standard port 22. See log below:

NOTE: Looking up host "ServerIP" for SSH connectionConnecting to ServerIP port 22 We claim version:
SSH-2.0-PuTTY_Release_0.71
NOTE: Network error: Network error: Software caused connection abortFATAL ERROR: Network error: Network error: Software caused
connection abort

 

Any ideas are appreciated!

 

2 REPLIES 2
SASKiwi
PROC Star

Have you tried testing this on a command line: psftp -P=100? If it works from a command line then it will likely work in SAS.

 

Failing that SAS Tech Support might be your best bet.

Lynn_SAS
Fluorite | Level 6

Yes, it worked in the command line. 

 

I wrote a winscp script to do the work instead of doing it in SAS.

 

 

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