On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:41:22 -0500, Hal Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would observe that this perception might be more superstition and >ancient legends than factual >:-) > >Find the right person at your business partner and propose a change in >media/transport. I'll bet a virtual brew that you'll be met with cheers >and jubilation more often than not. Why? Because they are hanging onto >old media because they think that's all -you- can support. Moving to a >modern media could save them money as well. We have a 3490-C22 just for this. But it, to me, seems to be mainly because most in my group are not comfortable with using FTP or CD distribution of products. We are used to getting fixes via email. But not entire products. I get all my z/OS PTFs via download from ShopzSeries. I may do my next z/OS order that way too. And Compuware supplied their latest release on a CD with a "front end" program which made it dead simple to upload to z/OS. Very nice. Our other tape medium in 3592J carts. Which are very expensive! > >Finding the right person is key because operations types often lack the >skills/authority to make the simple JCL adjustments. So. When your >contact insists that only antique media is supported, ask for >escalation. I heard of one case where the 3480 folks had no idea that >the shop was very big into FTP. We just converted our last "file transfer" user from our 3745 to encrypted ftp. Now we can get rid of the 3745 (which we own), NCP and SSP. A nice savings. > >I would watch out for shops investing in a complicated labor intensive >multi hop FTP solution with store and forward servers. Some auditors are >uneasy because the data exists in the clear as it passes through these >servers. Which is way ALL files which come in from the outside must be encrypted at our shop. > >HTH > >Hal -- John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
