On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 15:49:18 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:
>
>1. Assuming file transfer is the right option, avoid needless platform
>intermediaries. If you're transferring from z/OS to z/OS, then transfer
>from z/OS to z/OS. (Yes, agreed, MVSPUT and MVSGET in z/OS 2.1 and higher
>are great.) There are many options to do that. If somebody tries to argue
>"security," I really wonder if that person has considered whether inserting
>a Windows PC in the middle is more secure.
>
True, but:
http://mistupid.com/people/page058.htm
>2. Use a packager/archiver appropriate for your platform as part of the
>file transfer process, preferably with in-memory processing. As examples:
>z/OS's AMATERSE and the IBM Encryption Facility for z/OS. (Does anybody
>have a nice in-memory example to share? Optionally, submit a RFE to IBM to
>add AMATERSE and/or Encryption Facility processing into the z/OS FTP
>"loop," as a subcommand option of some kind.)
>
I second that. Does AMATERSE support PDSE nowadays? VSAM?
>3. Work with the IETF to see if there's room to enhance RFCs 959 and 4217,
>the two primary standards documents for FTP.
>
Already MODE B and STRU R exist. Most intermediate platforms won't
support them.
For intermeciate platforms, it would be useful if all the existing z/OS
peculiar protocols had an option to tell the intermidiate platform simply
to store a binary byte stream to be reconstructed at the z/OS target.
>4. Choose an alternative file transfer protocol. z/OS includes IND$FILE,
>
Is an IND$FILE client available for z/OS?
IND$FILE requires the same attention to correct options as FTP.
What's the support status of IND$FILE? There's a manual (obsolete,
I believe) that specifies its data streams. Extended attributes?
Program Objects?
>NFS (client and server),
>
But no extended attributes AFAIK. I haven't tried NFS for z/OS to z/OS.
I know I get errors if I attempt to set z/OS extended attributes with a
Solaris server.
-- gil
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