Hi ,
i would like to know if there is a way i could export the results from a subscription in SSRS to a SFTP folder. I am aware this is not an out of the box solution and i have an instance of SSRS ( 2008 ) and they have ( my organisation ) purchased an unknown plugin which would post it to SFTP folder and now we are in the process of upgrading to 2016 SSRS and we could not find any support for the plugin and we could not trace the person who sold it to us . That being said , i had few ideas in mind as to how this could be implemented and planned to reach out to this forum for ideas. The requirement is as follows :
There are about 60 reports that are being exported to a SFTP folder and we would like to come up with a solution to use the same reports to be exported to SFTP folder . I believe we can use SSIS + Execute Script Task to get this working and .Net is not my strong suit . I thought may be we could use a SQL table which would have the name of the reports and the frequencies in which it has to be executed, SFTP server name and the destination folder. We should have just one script in the package which can fetch values from the table and decide how many reports should be executed at that particular time and then execute the reports and post the results to SFTP folder and may be wrire these events into a log table . we could then schedule this ssis package to run every day .
Let me know if there are any alternative thoughts.My limitations would be , i cannot use the windows file share on SSRS subscription since the organisation is a little skeptical about storing the files on a local machine and then using a script to move the files to SFTP server. The reason we wanted a table for this is for easy maintenance we dont have much resources working on power shell scripting etc.
Any suggestions would be welcome
Regards,
Savio