Skip, RE: SFTP - I would encourage you to try Co:Z SFTP. (Not unrelated to this thread:) The same product is available both under a free license and also under a commercial license with warranties, support SLAs, etc.
FWIW, this has been a very successful business model for us, with many large customers world-wide. See: http://dovetail.com/products/sftp.html http://dovetail.com/support.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Skip Robinson <[email protected]>wrote: > <snip> > In another case, our shop has standardized on SFTP for secure transfers. A > few years ago we found an open-source version that worked and appeared to > have current support. But the Apps folks would not hear of it. They > insisted that we buy an ISV version. Don't know the details (and would not > reveal anyway), but we found the commercial version pretty sucky. We had > to debug it and induce the vendor to make changes. They obviously had--at > that time--little serious mainframe experience or the means to test their > product thoroughly. > > I'm not sure what moral these cases embody, but they illustrate the > difficulty of taking a real business in an off-the-grid direction. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
