> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 5:23 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Secure FTP (Was: z/OS every two years) > > On 4/13/2012 5:04 PM, Art Gutowski wrote: > > I see. Anyone else share in Mary Anne's sentiment? In other words, is > FTPS (or SFTP?) as much a requirement/priority notwithstanding the > impending ShopzSeries / RECEIVE ORDER requirement? If so, and you can > respond, please drop me a line off-list. Nothing detailed... just curious. > > We have customers that insist on 'secure' FTP for sending dumps, > downloading > files, etc. We set up an SFTP server on our public Internet site and that > seems > to have satisfied all requirements thus far. We don't currently support FTPS > with x.509 certificates. Hopefully, we'll never be asked to do so. It's a > PITA.
And, I've always found FTPS (granted no client identification certs yet) easier. None of that USS , sometimes called OMVS, perhaps properly called z/OS Unix System Services, involved :) Actually, I recently finished a sporadic effort to automount /u using ZFS. Now I can manage user's data in the zUnix arena. I may get back to trying ssh/sftp someday. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > 310-338-0400 x318 > edja...@phoenixsoftware.com > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
