On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Les Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend and I were (dis)cussing SFS and he thinks it can be networked > cross-country. Possible? I would guess that it would be an authentication > nightmare at the user level. Thoughts?
If you share via ISFC that means both sides must be in the same administrative domain. But given the length of the FICON connection, it will only work for small countries ;-) IPGATE run over TCP/IP connections and does long distance. Latency can make it less fun for regular use, but IMHO you really should not have critical data on a remote system. You define user access and mapping in the IPGATE configuration files. Provided there is some understanding between userid management on both sides, you could even use dummy userids as the target of the mapping (eg map MAINT at SYSA to user MAINT-A at SYSB). Rob
