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Defining Secure Copy Jobs

You can define a Secure Copy (SCP_JOB) job to transfer binary files using the Secure Copy Protocol (SCP). The SCP protocol does not support wildcard transfers.

Note: To run these jobs, your system requires CA WA Agent for UNIX, Linux, Windows, or i5/OS.

Required Statements

To define a Secure Copy job, you must specify the following statements:

• AGENT
• LOCALNAME
• REMOTEDIR
• REMOTENAME
• SERVERADDR
• TRANSFERDIRECTION
• USER

Optional Statements

You can specify the following optional statements for a Secure Copy job:

• JOBCLASS
• LOCALUSER
• SERVERPORT
• TARGETOSTYPE

Example: Download a File Using the Secure Copy Protocol

This example downloads the install.log1 file from the root directory on the chi-linux server using the Secure Copy Protocol (SCP):

AGENT WINAGENT
LOCALNAME C:\temp\install.log1
REMOTENAME install.log
REMOTEDIR /root
SERVERADDR chi-linux
SERVERPORT 22
TRANSFERDIRECTION DOWNLOAD
USER causer