> 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
True beyond a shadow of a doubt. FTP was written by UNIX people for UNIX. Just sayin' Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Gould Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 11:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FTP on z/OS sucks > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
