On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:22:42 -0500, Barbara Nitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>RECEIVE FROMNETWORK is the greatest thing since sliced bread. >>Unfortunately, too many PHB's won't allow the mainframe access to the >>Internet. It's OK for the company Email server to be there, but the >>mainframe? NFW! Or as Bill the Cat would say, "GAG, ACK, BARFFF!" > >I envy all of you out there who can use receive fromnetwork. We're in the >other category. And we were just informed that 'our' alternative will be >delivery to DVD. (Someone needs to grow a very long arm to be able to put >the DVDs into the HMCs....) > The DVD would go in your PC / workstation. Other vendors have been delivering z/OS software this way for a long time. I don't know the details, but I would guess you would either FTP to your HFS or zFS in place of RECEIVE FROMNETWORK or perhaps you could NFS mount the DVD on your workstation. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
