Whose security? Someone's job security? I don't know. Seriously, the client's security. In fairness, let me say the client has more reason than most to be careful about such things.
Nope, no e-mail on remote desktop. That would be too easy. A very bare-bones Windows desktop with Hummingbird and the Hummingbird X-Server called Exceed or Excess or something like that (not having the pleasure of being on it at the moment) and not much else other than very basic Windows utilities such as Notepad. No FTP. No FTP on client mainframe, or rather, no FTP between the client mainframe and the real world. The only way "in and out" for files that I have found is Hummingbird and IND$FILE. The Hummingbird IND$FILE client has a nice feature - lets you transfer to and from the Windows clipboard. My mainframe to mainframe sequence is FTP from my mainframe to my desktop using desktop FTP client. Open file in NoteTab*. Copy to clipboard. Toggle to remote desktop Hummingbird. Transfer file from clipboard to host file. I can batch this up somewhat - transfer multiple files with FTP and open multiple files in NoteTab. Moved a lot of source code this way on Monday. Reverse works roughly the same way. Yeah, e-mail attachments are base 64, right? But how do I take advantage of that? What about UNIX od? Will it go both ways? Will it do base 64? I wonder if I have OMVS access on the client machine. Probably not. *Quick plug: NoteTab is a GREAT text type editor for Windows. Light version is free. Google knows where to find it. One nice feature for this use: single step copy-to-clipboard without first having to do a Select All. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 5:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Looking for binary to character translation utility In a recent note, Charles Mills said: > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:54:19 -0700 > > I've got a situation where I must access a client mainframe through > Hummingbird running on MS Remote Desktop. I can't get a file from my PC to > the remote desktop due to "security," but I can get a clipboard full of > Whose "security"? Yours or theirs? Can you E-mail? I'm thinking of something like: TRANSMIT OUTDSN() FTP to local desktop E-mail as base64 attachment to remote desktop Save decoded attachment on remote desktop FTP to remote mainframe RECEIVE INDSN() I suppose this breaks somewhere or you'd have thought of it. But where? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
