The third party cloud browser approach only works if the browser provider has network access (over the Internet) to your HMC, perhaps through a reverse proxy that you control. Technically that would work, but that approach would still make at least some people nervous from a security point of view since the third party provider would have the technical ability to record keystrokes. It's a question of trust, and that's really a political, legal, and financial question rather than a purely technical one.
If you don't (or cannot) trust the third party to a sufficient degree, you could certainly operate a *private* cloud service. That could even be a Linux on System z image running remote desktop access software such as TightVNC and a Java-enabled browser such as Firefox. (Yes, Firefox is available for Linux on System z.) Then typically what you'd do is connect to your organization's private network via a VPN (or company premises wireless), start your VNC client on your iPad/iPhone/iPod touch/other mobile device, then run your "desktop" browser remotely. But in this example the desktop is actually the mainframe itself. A single Linux image could support multiple VNC logins and Firefox sessions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) 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
