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A lot has been said about MVS/DNS/etc..., knowing the IP address of the workstation in
order for MVS to initiate the FTP "down" to the WS. Most have said it needs to
be a static IP address.
At this site, we use static IP addresses. However, while I no longer have the VBS/WSF (a VB
script) file, at a prior site I wrote a plain-ole BAT/CMD file which called CSCRIPT to
process the VBS/WSF file which would parse a txt file that was the output of "IPCONFIG
/ALL > IPINFO.TXT". The data in the file contained the current WS IP address.
Once the file was parsed (I got the data I needed), I knew the IP address and
would save it to a one-line TXT file which was then FTP'ed to the MVS host and
stored in a flat file which was read, actually copied, into the 'host side' FTP
SYSIN file. Now, I had what I needed to know to initiate the FTP down to the
workstation. Using the Scheduled Tasks utility in XP, the BAT/CMD file would
be kicked off at system started up (boot) and daily, about 10-15 minutes before
the first MVS job of the day that produced the data I needed on the WS.
While there may have been a better solution, or one more robust/reliable, it
was not as ugly as it seems and the end result was it worked! In the time I
was there using this process, there was only one occasion when the lease of a
workstation expired between the time the IP address was FTPed to the host and
the time the host needed the IP address to send the data down. I had
intentions of rewriting the script file, but you know how that is.
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This is all very interesting but it doesn't address the issue of
security very well. I'm stuck with a direct COMCAST connection to my LAN
that I can't disable without disabling my telephones as well. So how to
I assure that some "hacker" from outside doesn't "ghost" a virus or some
form of spyware onto my PC? Running WinXP Pro.
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