On 7 May 2009 00:44:15 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >To revive this: >I had opened a feedback record with Servicelink. Their comment was: > >"This is not a problem with Servicelink ,it is mandated across >ibm.com,So please enable your ActiveX controls and plugins. " > >The European servicelink guy in the UK can reproduce my problem - he gets IE >(and Opera a lot earlier, for that matter) to terminate. He also found another >statement on an IBM internal website that states the exact opposite regarding >ActiveX controls. And it is apparently introduced to each and every IBM >website. > >Well, as of yesterday I have no way at all to access ETRs anymore. IBM has >sunsetted the srprob application, and the replacement one terminates *way >before* I ever get to see the list of my ETRs. > >Given that this new activeX control is absolutely unneeded for servicelink and >just another IBM website bloatware *and* occures even when I allow activeXs >on prompt to execute (well, except those "Initialize and script ActiceX >controls >not marked as safe" - this is forbidden by *my* company), at the very least it >is another case of really bad programming on IBMs part. At the worst IBM is >spying on its customers, which would not surprise me.
If I were working at a company that needed access to ETRs, I think that I would try to get my legal department involved to eliminate the need for ActiveX and the dependence on Internet Explorer. I should be able to use a Mac, Linux, Solaris or any other desktop with a browser to get ETRs. Also accuse IBM of trying to subvert the organization's security. > >Regards, Barbara Nitz > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
