While I agree ftp links should be changed to https, I would remind a
browser is not necessary to use ftp, it's really easy to circumvent it.
In Windows system there is something called cmd.exe or CLI and there is
a command named ftp.
Of course the link need to be pasted here, but it is quite easy today
since after maaaaany years Microsoft simplified copy-paste process in
command window.
And of course there are plenty of graphical ftp clients (anyone here is
not familiar with command line interface???).
Last, but not least Linux systems also have ftp client.
Of course corporate firewall can block any ftp traffic, but this is
different issue.
BTW: many moons ago I tried to visit Mark Zelden's utilities page and
...Big Brother considered it as illegal. I've got a message like "How
dare you try to visit so disgusting webpage! Security team is informed
about it and you manager will be informed as well". No ftp, just http.
REXX code, IPLINFO - it is adult material. Not for children ;-)
My €0.02
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
(looking for new job)
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 15.04.2021 o 11:45, Barbara Nitz pisze:
We have ftp blocked at the corporate level. Has anyone found an HTTPS link to
download this file? I used 'Contact IBM' at the bottom to inquire but not
optimistic.
You're not the only one. Now that the 'modern browsers' don't support ftp in
websites anymore, I wonder if IBM will wake up and change their practise of
providing ftp-links. At some point in the not-too-distant future IE will not be
available anymore in a corporation, and then there won't be any way to get at
(sometimes vital) information:
- Holddata are ftp-Links only. And I want to download holddata without ordering
anything via ShopZ. Not to mention that it will be cheaper for IBM in the
longer run to provide these data another way.
- The ++HOLD's in ptfs often only contain ftp-Links for any documentation. I
shudder to think what happens if I can't use ftp anymore and the doc says that
some default was changed, only I cannot read the doc. 2 Alternatives: Hope for
the best or open an SR for each ptf to have IBM support send me the doc. Again
expensive for IBM.
- (Updated) PDFs like recently for the 2.4 docs. Again an ftp-Link, and if I
cannot get at it, then I either have to manually download each and every book
in the collection via http(s) in the browser or use old docs. Pity when I
didn't install ptfs with documentation as ftp-Link only until the books are
updated and I can see what the ptf does. In this case, it would be very
time-consuming for each customer to get offline docs.
I'm sure there are other cases where IBM only provides docu via ftp-Link. Or
equally as bad - as a link into some public 'data room' (The one with 'box' in
the name comes to mind) which is also forbidden at the corporate level here.
My colleagues tell me that the same is true for CA and BMC (or whatever they're
named today).
IBM, when will you wake up?
Barbara
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