Cletus, z/OS has supported FTP encryption (SSL and SSH style) for quite some time now. Have you investigated those options?
Please check the recent IBM-MAIN archives for some thoughts on that subject -- notably the thought that FTP encryption is probably necessary but not sufficient for protecting private information. But it's worth considering why data are FTPed in the first place -- and whether FTP is overused. FTP by definition means copying whole files. Is that always wise? Or would the interests of personal privacy protection be better served by keeping the data in place and offering selective, secure, online, realtime access to those data? My hunch is that a lot of businesses and governments will need to seriously consider data recentralization in order to achieve their privacy protection objectives. Just some architectural thoughts for the day. :-) - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect IBM Americas zSeries/z9 Software Phone: +1 312 529 1612 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
