If you're a new z customer, you can put the FTP server on a private LAN in a
secured facility and unless the KGB[1] has a van parked outside your building
there should be no security issue. Other than cirtificates and firewall issues,
what's so complicated about doing things over the network?
[1] Yes, I know that they changed the name and filed off the serial number, but
it's still the Чека́ (Cheka), MVS, NKDV
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of
Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA?
On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 18:25:19 +0100, R.S. wrote:
>...
>For blank new installations - download (or order media) DVD images of
>Driver system and put it into DVD drive in HMC... Well... there is no
>longer DVD drive... However you can put DVD content into some ftp server
>directory and IPL from that directory.
>
Ah! So it's possible to IPL from network. (IANASysadmin, so not in my
skill set.) FTP only, or other schemes? FTP is problematic; too widely
considered insecure. Windows has a server, concealed under IIS; I've
used FileZilla server.
MacOS and Linux readily support mounting .iso images; so "content" step may
be skipped. Windows image mounter flickers in and out of support. I used
Virtual CloneDrive (Dolly? in logo).
Never for IPL (IANASysadmin), but for SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK.
Testers found the process so tedious I fell back to packaging a "pax"ed
SMPNTS and recommending "pax -r"; RECEIVE FROMNTS.
Some customers wished for a set of .xmit PDSU. I demurred; masochists:
Too many steps for them to install; unlike any IBM product (but the
customer cited one product so packaged. It was from a recently-acquired
subsidiary). And too many steps for me to package.
I perceived aversion to RECEIVE FROMNTS as UNIXphobia. Our product
was not so large that DASD space was a concern. Can't please everyone.
-- gil
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