On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 12:28:21 -0600, Hal Merritt <[email protected]> wrote:
>I've been asked to look into killing the SMTP service. We are very heavy users of XMITIP, but inbound email is blocked at the firewall. However, that does not seem to be good enough and we need to 'block the port' on the z/os host. > >I'm having trouble isolating a FM, and there is not much on this issue in the archives that I can see. > >From what I can see, the SMTP server is critical to what we are doing with XMITIP. But how would you 'block the port'? > >Please, no Redbook referances. > >Clues, anyone? > >Thanks all!! Hal, We run XMITIP here. We do not run SMTP or any other email MTA on the z/OS system. The XMITIP member XMITIPCU sets the variable "smtp_server" to point to our MS Exchange system. Works fine. Well, except when Exchange is down. When that happens, rarely, all the email steps just "freeze" and production control freaks out because their jobs don't complete. <grin> -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
