I believe that IND$FILE is included in your z/OS license. I also believe that it is long out of support and less efficient than, e.g., SFTP (yes, FTP is considered insecure these days.)
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 5:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IND$FILE -- where did the name come from? On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 21:58:01 +0000, Edward Finnell wrote: >It's been marked 'Corporate Confidential' for years. > What's the license status of IND$FILE? If it was delivered before IBM licensed software, customers and others are free to use it anywhre, even Hercules. And IBM has no obligation to support or document it. If it was licensed to particular OS releases, no longer marketed, users on later releases may be in license violation. The client has been reverse-engineered for numerous platforms (e.g. Kermit). Might this violate a "no reverse-engineering" clause? (I believe it uses the 7171/Yale IUP convention of using an improbable sequence of 327x commands to put the client in data transfer mode.) Could IBM take legal action against any perceived violations? I believe that would be a bad PR move. What CCSIDs does it support? IBM doesn't want to discuss it. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
