EXCELLENT Question. The kind on insight I need here.
We use Rumba, running on a Windows server to talk allow 3270 type
communication from users on Windows boxes who need to access our zOS
system, TSO, CICS, and some VTAM apps.
Problem is that PCI and JSOX do not think this is sucure... and it is
certainly not secure enough. Users are on our internal net, or coming in
thru VPN to our internal net, firewalls on the network, not zOS.
Management seems to believe that SSL is not sufficient, they must
have SSH and I am working on getting IBM Ported Tools installed. Just
where the TN3270 would go, server or user PC... etc, most everything is up
in the air at this point.
I am also looking at what is involved in putting a firewall on
zOS, and framkly, I am WAY over my head.
"Patrick O'Keefe" <[email protected]>
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Re: Need new 3270 emulator: SSH, inexpensive, reliable
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:35:18 -0700, John Mattson
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> ... Management ... now wants a SSH based >3270 emulation for
accessing mainframe TSO, CICS, and such apps. >...
> Uh, something I've missed in the thread so far: What are you going to
talk to? Does some vendor produce an SSH-based Tn3270 server? Or are you
> going to talk with some server that includes a Tn3270 client that then
connects to the local z/CS Tn3270 server? (Maybe something sort of like
HATS > except with some special SSH client rather than a browser.) Or
something else I can't envision?
> It looks to me like somebody has tried to define a solution rather
defining the problem and then looking for solutions that address it.
> Pat O'Keefe
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