> -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Jack Woehr > Sent: 05 April 2009 22:49 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Secure FTP > > Dave Jones wrote: > > > > If you are asking if Linux as a guest of z/VM can write records to a > > CMS file, the answer is no. Or am I completely missing your query? > > Linux can, of course, create 'record' files (using, say, CRLF as the > > record boundary delimiter) to files in a Linux file system. > > Nobody's written a CMS or BFS mountable file system for Linux on Z? Your > lives would be easier if it were there, wouldn't it?
Well Linux expects a directory structure so "normal" CMS disks aren't easily accessed, and the protocols used to access the BFS and SFS file systems are proprietary, so that not easily achieved either.... > You wouldn't have to worry about scp or sftp for CMS. You'd just fetch > this stuff back and forth thru Linux. > Ah yes the joys of closed systems... ... you can of course use NFS but hey, that's not secure..... > -- > Jack J. Woehr # I run for public office from time to time. It's > like > http://www.well.com/~jax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't > get > http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep easily > afterwards.
