Mike, Did I mention FTPing report files? Print them or e-mail them, but not FTP them. Perhaps put them in a directory on a NAS volume so user can simply browse and download what they want or need to see.
Of course in the inward looking world of MVS you may not have heard of Gb Ethernet, iSCSI, NAS, or Lev-Zempil. I'm yet to see even a Fast Ethernet network grind to a halt because someone is downloading a few files. When I download manuals I usually run 3 or 4 downloads at a time. It would have to be one hell of a crappy network for e-mail and print servers to be killing the LAN. Even products like ControlD/PC do not drag down a network and I know one place where it was running from Singapore to Guam on a 64Kb link! As for reading the SMF data directly through FTP - well if you have 10GB of SMF data you can read it in an hour and you would only be using half the capacity of a Fast Ethernet backbone. Most routers have many tuning options that allow you to slice out and manage this sort of traffic, but if you run your MXG before 8:30 in the morning who will notice? If a tree falls in the forest... As for security - show me the security rating for z/OS connected to a network. Is SDSF, HRECOVER, and ADMIN for DFDSS any more secure than VxFS User controls? Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mike Liberatore > Sent: Thursday, 14 July 2005 6:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Another - Another One Bites the Dust > > FTPing report files that must put a hurtin on the Network and that data > is it really secure on that open systems > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
