My last shop was exactly the opposite. The mainframe network had no interfaces with connectivity to anyone outside our work area. Users used Windows PCs or Sun workstations for access (TSO, FTP, etc). Before mounting any media to a PC or workstation on the network (regardless of data's ultimate destination), it had to be scanned for malicious software on a specially configured stand-alone device. This included commercial music CDs people used at their desks. Any thumb drives used had to be company issued. Each of us had an extra PC with external connectivity for email, internet, etc but the two networks were separated both electronically and physically.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Werner Kuehnel > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 5:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Antwort: Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape? > > We are one of the companies running entirely tapeless. We get all software > via download. So I have no choice. > And to go one step further, there is a growing number of companies, where > the USB ports and DVD devices are disabled for security reasons (as with > us). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
