Problem Note 18621: Support for PASV (passive) mode for the FTP engine
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
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M0 | |
| z/OS | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
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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.
FTP PASV ( passive ) mode support
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Date Modified: | 2006-10-18 14:34:43 |
| Date Created: | 2006-09-26 10:13:09 |
