I'm a little confused here. For those of you who would like: * physical media delivery * of z/OS products * installed without any intermediate systems
I believe IBM has you covered, already. You simply order the DVDs, insert each DVD into the IBM Z machine's Hardware Management Console's DVD drive, and use the "Enable FTP Access to Mass Storage Media" task: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/HW11P_2.13.1/com.ibm.hwmca.kc_hmc.doc/enable/stepsenableftpaccesstomassstoragemedia.html Then you move the contents of the DVD into your z/OS system using FTP across that very closed HMC network. (I'm quite sure z/OS supports FTP.) There's no intermediate PC or other system to worry about in the loop, the process is completely disconnected from any external or even internal networks (nothing beyond the IBM Z boundary), and you still have IBM-supplied physical media that you can track, log, audit, stare at, whatever -- read-only physical media that happens to be flatter, lighter, and easier to carry. You can place the HMC under armed guard, point a video surveillance camera at it, mount it in a caged rack, surround it with Mission Impossible-style laser and pressure sensors, or whatever, as you prefer. I prefer/recommend the digitally signed and network delivered path, but you've got choices. So what am I missing? Does that delivery path work? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE, Multi-Geography E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
