The idea of programmers installing software via CD into product libraries they have access to scares the willies out of me. It is one of two issues I have with this.
"What changed?" becomes an increasingly difficult question to answer. I'm not sure change control in most of the shops I've been in would have prevented this sort of product from getting installed. Web enablement of data access is another kettle of fish. All computers are really good at doing what you tell them to do. I'm already dealing with this one on several fronts as applications move away from "green screens" to web front ends. I mention it more as what possibilities the whole CD install opens us up to. The "enter" key was always a limiting factor in an end user's hand's on process of using computers. Now "point and click" trigger of a humongous data download becomes more slippery to control. Applications developed by hand by your own programmers, or a hired vendor, were one thing, CDs arriving for trials are another. Accountability for resource use, like I/O, CPU, and customer data, becomes more murky as users can install things like this. I now have more to be concerned about, in my opinion, when programmers can load up these kinds of things in "an hour". /ptd -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: GUI Install Procedure for ISV Mainframe Software I have seen some mainframe ISV products which install from a CD by FTPing files and installation jobstreams from the PC to the host. All the install has to provide is the host IP address, FTP logon info, file name prefix and the like. I think there are one or two companies which provide the programs to the ISVs to do this. But how it installs is not your issue, it is that it enables large volume data capture to the PC. Sounds like a security exposure as well as a performance hog. the installing user undoubtedly needs the proper authority to install and access the data, but once it gets to the PC, all controls are probably lost!! -- Bruce A. Black ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
