Silly me; I thought that IND$FILE had been replaced by WSA, or some combination of FTP, SFTP and WSA.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2017 3:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release Tom Brennan wrote: >Well, I said the same thing about IND$FILE back in 1998, thinking it would be >totally replaced by FTP. I was certainly wrong about that! Today I think >people use IND$FILE more than ever for smaller file transfers. ... and FTP is supposed to be replaced by SFTP or FTPS ... but I could be wrong! ;-) >And there are folks like you without FTP available - I know how that is, >logging on to a customer's mainframe and needing to upload something like >SHOWMVS. It is indeed a PITA, especially if that customer's firewall and network settings block you to enter the mainframe. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
