How to use FTP commands to download files from ECuRep

You can download fixes from ECuRep using FTP command line commands. The following two examples show how to do this using FTPS (explicit FTP over TLS) and SFTP (FTP over SSH). The directory information required is provided to you either in a MySupport case or via Email. Authentication is done using the IBM Support File Transfer ID.

For FTPS:

  ftp ftps.ecurep.ibm.com  
  user <TRANSFERID>
  cd /fromibm/<43 character hash>
  bin
  get <file>

FTP SFTP:

  sftp <TRANSFERID>@sftp.ecurep.ibm.com  
  cd /fromibm/<43 character hash>
  get <file>

<TRANSFERID> is your IBM Support File Transfer ID.
<43 character hash> is the directory given in the MySupport case or the notification email.
<file> is the name of the file that you want to download.

Note:

It is not possible to list the directory /fromibm. The "ls" or "dir" command will return an error in this directory. We suggest to use a "cd" command to change the current directory to the provided directory.