Patrick O'Keefe wrote: > 2nd attempt to send a posting that went into the bit bucket. > > I assume there are some shops with policies that forbid transfers > across the web between z/OS mainframes and external sites unless > the data is encrypted. How do such shops send data to/from MVS > (and other vendors)? > > I know IBMs Boulder site (testcase ?) supports HTTPS transfers. Do > they also support FTPS or SFTP? And what about IBM's emea site > (which some parts of IBM greatly prefer over Boulder)? Does it > support any kind of encrypted transfers? > > If such transfers to/from MVS can be done I would like to suggest > them to our management as a huge step up from our current policy > that prohibits (i.e., blocks via firewalls) any access to the web by > our mainframes, blocks all web-based outbound FTPs from any > workstation on out intranet, and allows inbound transfers only > for browser-based FTPs going through a proxy. :-( > > I'd appreciate any information on how other shops cope with similar > paranoic policies. (But please don't bother pointing out the > problems with the policies. We know they don't provide any > protection; they just make our lives difficult. There is no logic here - > just a "Corporate Security" department.) > > Thanks in advance. > > Pat O'Keefe > > > I opened up an ETR with IBM on this topic last year. Unfortunately I don't remember the details, but IBM does have a FTPS service available that the standard zOS TCPIP stack can communicate with once some setup tasks are performed in your environment.
-- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL ---- Riley: Find the next number in the sequence: 313, 331, 367, ...? what? The Doctor: 379. It's a sequence of happy primes, 379. Martha: Happy what? The Doctor: Just enter it! Riley: Are you sure? We only get one chance. The Doctor: Any number that reduces to one when you take the sum of the square of its digits and continue iterating until it yields 1 is a happy number, any number that doesn't, isn't. A happy prime is both happy and prime. ---- Doctor Who episode "42" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
