> Yes, people who hack systems would love such a facility.

I strongly disagree. 

If you can get logged onto a z/OS system with FTP you are 99% of the way to 
hacker nirvana anyway. The ability to submit TSO commands would be no more of a 
threat than the ability to retrieve files (RACF password database anyone?), run 
shell commands, or run batch jobs. It could be protected with a SAF profile.

Perhaps I need to clarify: "by clever hack" I did not mean some defeat of the 
Statement of Integrity. I meant something clever along the lines of what Gil 
suggested, "you can run a shell command, and from there you can run a TSO 
command by blah blah."

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of John McKown
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 2:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Executing a remote TSO command or CLIST with FTP?

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just confirming what I RTFM: there is no way for an FTP client to 
> directly execute a TSO command on a remote z/OS system - is that 
> right? Is there some clever hack that I am missing?
>

There is no "clever hack" to allow remote execution via ftp. Other than 
submitting a batch job to do something and then getting the output back via ftp.


>
> This would be real useful, no? The ability - in this case, what I am 
> trying to do - to upload a TSO XMIT file and then run a RECEIVE on it.
>

Yes, people who hack systems would love such a facility.


>
> Yes, I know I can run a job on the remote machine and the job could be 
> batch TSO. I am looking for something a little more straightforward 
> than that.
>

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