> On Mar 30, 2018, at 6:01 AM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > > I'm a little confused here. For those of you who would like: > > * physical media delivery > * of z/OS products > * installed without any intermediate systems > > I believe IBM has you covered, already. You simply order the DVDs, insert > each DVD into the IBM Z machine's Hardware Management Console's DVD drive, > and use the "Enable FTP Access to Mass Storage Media" task: > > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/HW11P_2.13.1/com.ibm.hwmca.kc_hmc.doc/enable/stepsenableftpaccesstomassstoragemedia.html > > Then you move the contents of the DVD into your z/OS system using FTP > across that very closed HMC network. (I'm quite sure z/OS supports FTP.) > There's no intermediate PC or other system to worry about in the loop, the > process is completely disconnected from any external or even internal > networks (nothing beyond the IBM Z boundary), and you still have > IBM-supplied physical media that you can track, log, audit, stare at, > whatever -- read-only physical media that happens to be flatter, lighter, > and easier to carry. You can place the HMC under armed guard, point a video > surveillance camera at it, mount it in a caged rack, surround it with > Mission Impossible-style laser and pressure sensors, or whatever, as you > prefer. > > I prefer/recommend the digitally signed and network delivered path, but > you've got choices. > > So what am I missing? Does that delivery path work?
Timothy: I have heard about this method and I have read on here varying degrees of success(or not). Has this method ever been done for CBPDO/CBIPO/ or you other offerings?Would it even fit on a mod54? I am open to it as long as it is extremely secure and doesn’t take 5 days (or more). IMNO this might work for a PTF or two but several DVD’s worth?? I am still puzzled on how you get this from the PC to the mainframe. Also, while I am at it you would need enough disk specie on the PC to hold all this data, I don’t think they make a big enough HD for the PC, do they? Our computer room is very secure. I am not even allowed to touch the HMC without a VP looking over my shoulder and asking everything I do, while he dictates into a recorder, I am not sure how they would take me putting in and out dvd’s that certainly will cause a ripple. While there is no video cam (at least that I am aware of that points to the HMC) there are at least 20 camera’s recording everything at or near a console, several in the tape vault enter/exit/inside and one looking in at the elevator and a few others that I don’t remember. If there are any on here that have done a offering through the HMC I would love to hear your success/failures. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
