You don't need browser support, although it is convenient. What you do need is a network definition that permits it. The reason that browsers dropped support is that there are security issues. I don't know what the status of SFTP (over SSH) is.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Barbara Nitz [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 12:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs >> - Holddata are ftp-Links only. And I want to download holddata without >> ordering anything via ShopZ. >Not true. You want the IBM HOLDDATA without using FTP? Use SMP/E >RECEIVE ORDER and indicate downloadmethod="https". We have never used that here, so I'll check into it when IE goes away. We do use https for downloading from ShopZ. What about ftp links in ptfs? One of several examples from my last refresh in January is OA58114 (the DPfD ptf). The 114 page pdf documentation is an ftp link inside the ++HOLD. ftp traffic other than through a browser is blocked at the firewalls, so while I am familiar with the ftp CLI I cannot use that, either. I was sorely disappointed when I could eventually download the docs only to find out that DPfD only works on a z15. Regarding Quickref: We do use Quickref, but it doesn't help me at all when it is brandnew information placed in a ptf (see above). Personally I prefer my documentation offline on my private drive. The Red Alert thing that went out was originally also an ftp-Link only. The consolidated books mentioned here last week were ftp-Links only (never mind that the inhouse-scan of the zip took longer than the timeout for the website, so I couldn't get at that, either!). I repeat my question: When is IBM going to wake up *everywhere* that ftp-Links become inaccessible now that the browsers don't support them anymore? Just this morning we were told that Chrome goes away corporately. Firefox is not allowed, so we're stuck with Edge. Which doesn't do ftp anymore. Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
