On Wednesday, 06/04/2003 at 09:37 AST, "Davis, Larry"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The issue is that the data resides on a CMS minidisk and the client
wants us
> to send them the data over a secure link to a SFTP server on there Red
Hat
> Linux system. We already have the processes in place to do this over
normal
> intranet lines, but because of the sensitivity of the data they do not
want
> to transfer the data in the open. To simplify the process, and not
transfer
> the data to an intermediary server, then transmit the data over SFTP, we
> wanted to look at the SSLSERV supplied with VM. From what I can tell it
> would only require a PORT change on FTP command in CMS, but don't Quote
me
> because I haven't quite got there yet.

Larry, the VM SSL server will not provide protection for CMS *clients*. It
provides protection for servers only.  For VM SSL to provide the wanted
protection, the sftp will have to be initiated from the Linux system.

Alan Altmark
Sr. Software Engineer
IBM z/VM Development

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