Hi Mike, >Hello all, out of curiosity. I heard that there is a built in firewall >with z/os. Is this true? And if it is, is anyone using it? And how good >is it? Starting in z/OS V1R8, Firewall Technologies is no longer available (announced Feb 15th, 2005)
Cut-and-paste from this IBM presentation: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/stgv1r0/topic/com.ibm.iea.commserv_v1/commserv/1.8z/overview/whatsnewSecurity.pdf z/OS V1.7 is the last z/OS release to include the Firewall Technologies component of the Integrated Security Services element. Many Firewall Technologies functions have been stabilized for some time and can be replaced using comparable or better functions provided by or planned for Communications Server, notably, - IPSec - IP packet filtering - In addition, a functionally rich downloadable tool is planned to replace the IPSecurity and IP Filtering configuration GUI support. The following functions were removed without replacement: - FTP Proxy services - Socks V4 services - Network Address Translation (NAT) - RealAudio support jan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
