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Problem Note 18621: Support for PASV (passive) mode for the FTP engine

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The FTP engine in the FILENAME statement does not support the PASV (passive) mode in SAS® 9.2 and earlier. Passive mode is a more secure form of data transfer. Beginning in SAS® 9.3, PASV mode support is available when you use the PASSIVE parameter in the FILENAME statement, as shown in the following example:

FILENAME FTPTEST FTP ... PASSIVE;

When you add the DEBUG parameter to the FILENAME statement, you see that the PASV command is issued instead of the PORT command when you are in PASV mode.



Operating System and Release Information

Product FamilyProductSystemSAS Release
ReportedFixed*
SAS SystemBase SASMicrosoft Windows 2000 Server9.1 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation9.1 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows XP Professional9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server9.1 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server9.1 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional9.1 TS1M0
z/OS9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
64-bit Enabled AIX9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
64-bit Enabled HP-UX9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
64-bit Enabled Solaris9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
HP-UX IPF9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
Linux9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
OpenVMS Alpha9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
Tru64 UNIX9.1 TS1M09.3 TS1M0
* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.