The "new tools" are neither as reliable, function, or available as their predecessors, let alone z/OS.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Gould Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 10:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Vendor Licensing Frustrations > On Apr 23, 2017, at 8:40 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > > ——————————————SNIP---------------------------------------------------- > ------ Yet another way to handle keys (IF you must, and I don't > recommend them) is a "break glass in an emergency" way. You put the > "emergency" key(s) on a couple secured, cloud-hosted sites (say, at > IBM and Google). If the customer grabs the key, you receive a message > or notice from the cloud > provider(s) that somebody grabbed the key. And that key is only to > lift already less onerous restrictions, such as exceeding a 90 day DR > machine run. ——————————————SNIP————————————————————————————— Timothy, I can’t talk for others but IBM can’t seem to handle the Internet. We have seen and had happen to all of us something happens when IBM gets involved in the internet. Just look back on say the past year when IBM had outages with some web/other outages. IBM misses the golden 5 9999’s anytime they do anything with the Internet, Software/Hardware/Manuals IBM not so much. I am not sure I would trust anything that is needed for the MF on the Internet. Now MAYBE one or two times there were “other” issues but 10-20+, I don’t think so. Not being able to get emergency key(s) would give IBM a real black eye, IMO. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ::DISCLAIMER:: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
