TSS7100W - 006 With FTP on Fedora to z/OS In Passive Mode

Products

• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

When an acid tries to FTP from Linux to z/OS, the following error occurs:

FTPD is defined with the following inside TCPPARMS:

    20 TCP *         NOAUTOLOG ; FTP Server

    21 TCP FTPD1               ; FTP Server

    PORTRANGE 48010 11 TCP AUTOPORT

The following parameters are defined to TCPIP.FTP.PARMS:

UNITNAME      3390            ; new data set allocation unit

VOLUME        SDWRK1          ; new data set allocation volume serial

WRAPRECORD    FALSE           ; data is NOT wrapped to next record

PASSIVEDATAPORTS  (48010,48020)

 

 

The failure (from z/OS):

0090  TSS7100W 006 J=ftpjob A=acid T=terminal F=TCP - Facility Not Authorized

0090  TSS7100W 006 J=ftpjob A=acid T=N/A F=TCP - Facility Not Authorized

0090  TSS7100W 006 J=ftpjob A=acid T=terminal F=TCP - Facility Not Authorized

 

The failure (from Linux):

[[email protected] ~]$ ftp -dv

ftp> open 

(to) 192.168.1.72

Connected to 192.168.1.72 (192.168.1.72).

220-FTPD1 IBM FTP CS V2R3 at hostname, 19:22:22 on 2020-01-15.

220 Connection will close if idle for more than 5 minutes.

Name (192.168.1.72:sford): acid

---> USER acid

331 Send password please.

Password:

---> PASS XXXX

230 acid is logged on.  Working directory is "acid .".

---> SYST

215 MVS is the operating system of this server. FTP Server is running on z/OS.

Remote system type is MVS.

ftp> ls

ftp: setsockopt (ignored): Permission denied

---> PASV

425 Can't open passive connection.

Passive mode refused.

ftp> 

Environment

Release : 16.0

Component : CA Top Secret for z/OS

Resolution

The TSS7100W 006 message indicates the 'acid' doesn't have access to facility TCP. This can be granted this via:

TSS ADD(acid) FAC(TCP)