Retrieving files from a MVS system using FTPS

Current Situation

• when the FTP server running on z/OS MVS operation system, YADE does not transfer any files
  • Causes:
    • YADE can't evaluate the file types (regular file, symlink etc) and not adds the files to a transfer file list
      • YADE throws internally on the first entry with the unknown type an NPE Exception,not logs this exception and breaks the execution with a 0 files found result:

        ...
        System-Type = MVS is the operating system of this server. FTP Server is running on z/OS.
        ..,
        ...[ls] 26 files or folders
        ..[total] 0 files
        ...[filtered] 0 files
        ...
        execution status = success. Without Errors.
        successful transfers = 0
        skipped transfers = 0
        failed transfers = 0
        last error =

    • YADE uses an outdated apache commons-net-3.3.jar library

Desired Behaviour

• Retrieving files from a MVS system using FTP(S) should work
• Update the apache commons-net to the latest commons-net 3.8.0 version

Applicable JobScheduler Releases
A patch is available for download with JobScheduler/Agent releases:

• JobScheduler/Agent 1.13.4-1.13.9
  • Unzip the patch patch-20211001-YADE-578-1.13.4-1.13.9.zip to the ./lib/patches directory of the JobScheduler Master/Agent and perform a restart.