I think an ironic subtext in this discussion is the that companies that employ mainframe typically entrust it with their most precious family jewels. So even as management disparages mainframe network access, they still value it as the best place to keep the most valuable data. And when a company ventures to replace the mainframe with some other platform, weaknesses in security and integrity are shrugged off as just another risk of doing business. How many of the most horrendous security breaches we read about can be traced to mainframe fallibility? You don't stick a thumb drive into a zEC12 or a 3390 subsystem to download sensitive information.
. . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 12/14/2013 08:41 AM Subject: Re: SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER and Internet Delivery Questions Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On 12/14/2013 7:59 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 06:37:56 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote: >> Direct download to z/OS is the only way to fly! As a matter of >> principle, I refuse to let z/OS products or service touch any other >> platform or media. >> > An interesting contrast to reports of other enterprises which as a > matter of principle refuse to let z/OS touch the Internet. I find that astonishing! It's like tying one hand behind z/OS' back! Internet connectivity is practically *required* to service other operating systems. If our RHEL systems on any server (including System z) don't connect to RedHat and signal the AOK, the red flags start flying! And, if service is not regularly applied to those systems, ominous warnings start accumulating... Most "mainframers" agree that z/OS has an image problem - thought by many to be an old, creaky operating system that simply can't compete against newer alternatives. The paranoid "Luddites" that refuse to level the playing field, by allowing z/OS to leverage modern service deployment technologies used by those alternatives, aren't just hurting themselves - they're hurting the platform as a whole... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
