> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 1:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Secure FTP (Was: z/OS every two years) > > On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 00:54 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > <snip> > > > > And, I've always found FTPS (granted no client identification certs yet) > easier. > > None of that USS , sometimes called OMVS, perhaps properly called z/OS > > Unix System Services, involved :) > > > > Actually, I recently finished a sporadic effort to automount /u using ZFS. > Now I can manage user's data in the zUnix arena. > > I may get back to trying ssh/sftp someday. > > If you implement the freely available SSH enhancements from Dovetailed > Technologies, their sftp server can access the same z/OS legacy datasets and > SPOOL (get to read a job's output, put to submit a job) as FTP. > > http://dovetail.com . > > Not only is the basic code free, you don't even need to "register" with them > to download it. Literally "no questions asked!" Just download and > implement. And it's fairly simple. If you want support, you can get that with > a > support contract.
I looked at that more than once. I honestly don't remember what, if any, impediment stopped me for that route. Maybe merely time. Probably incomplete configuring of Ported Tools. :) I'll look again if I get a chance, but I think I'm even more of a one man show than you are. Currently I have to deal with our disk array going EOSL end of June by surprise. It's possible that the vendor did notify the guy who left abruptly, but I don't know. > > > > > Dave Gibney > > Information Technology Services > > Washington State University > > > > -- > John McKown > Maranatha! <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
