Re: ACS configuration

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do understand and agree completely. There are other considerations at 
the moment, however, that I don't feel one can discuss in an open forum.

See you in NoLa!

Vern

On 5/18/2022 8:18 PM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
> Advantage of IFS tooling rather than a share is that with a share 
> ransomware can come in and wreak havoc. NoCanDo with IFS tool in ACS.
>
>     - L
>
> On 5/18/2022 4:54 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:
> > No disagreement here, other than, for us currently, I wouldn't open 
> > up the IFS tool - we set up netserver shares for that.
> >
> > I was not part of the initial setup for our users, I can chat with 
> > you at COMMON about some of this, you'll see what I'm seeing.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Vern
> >
> > On 5/18/2022 6:32 AM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
> > > On 5/18/2022 6:21 AM, Vern Hamberg via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> > >
> > > > we have that pretty much restricted to 5250 only for our users
> > >
> > > That's like the farmer who was finally convinced to replace his axe 
> > > with a chainsaw. However, lacking training, the thing frustrated him 
> > > so bad he took it back the next day.
> > >
> > > When pointed out how badly the saw worked, the shop-keep took the 
> > > saw and the farmer out back to a test log, and fired it up. The 
> > > farmer then hollered over the motor: "WHAT'S THAT NOISE?"
> > >
> > > Seriously the spooled file support is the first thing I would give 
> > > to the users. It's their output, let them see it in a format much 
> > > more user friendly and also download it in text or PDF format.
> > >
> > > Next would be IFS access. Again it's their data, let them access it 
> > > easily and upload and download as well.
> > >
> > > And for Developers and Admins of course, the Run SQL scripts feature 
> > > is PURE GOLD.
> > >
> > > My $0.02.