> On Sep 6, 2016, at 12:44 PM, John Mattson <[email protected]> wrote: > > zOS was middle aged before the internet was born. FTP on zOS is like a dog > walking on its hind legs, it is not that it does it well, but that it does > it at all. The amazing thing is that it works as well as it does, and > every time I use FTP to download software and service from IBM I am filled > with joy. I remember ordering round tapes and waiting a month for them to > arrive, and praying.
John: I will disagree with you. 1. Tapes never took a month and in my experiance never had a data check and it was secure. In fact most took a couple of days. If you needed a fix fast you could d/l from Boulder with minimum JCL yes it was slow but usual fixes were 5 minutes or less (at least the fixes I needed). 2. FTP is fraught with issues (even with secure downloads) that you have to do a secure d/l you have to jump through hoops in order to get it to work nor had any idea on how to document (according to IBM standards). 3. FTP was written by a group of people who were (IMO) people that never saw a MF computer and had no concept of how it worked. The same can be said about the OMVS people. Just take a look at the M&C for both products and it will make you sick. Compared to MVS the manuals are quite primitive. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
