RE: Automate Client Access Transfer

No, it was more a matter of having an open C/A connection running when not
in use. If you can automate the connection and then disconnect during this
process you're quite correct about the security. I don't have anybody that
can code in C so I was unable to use IBM's (unsupported) logon script
written in that language. That could beautomated on the NT and used to
connect and unconnect. There are probably other ways we could have gone as
well. But we gave up and used FTP.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Earl [SMTP:johnearl@400security.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 12:43 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Automate Client Access Transfer
> 
> Dale,
> 
> Could you please help me understand this...
> 
> "Draper, Dale" wrote:
> 
> > The main problem we found with this is opening the C/A connection and
> the
> > security issues associated with that, so decided on FTP.
> 
> I'm not aware of any way in which C/A is less secure than FTP.  Arguably,
> it can
> be more secure because you can use SSL to cause C/A to encrypt passwords
> before
> they are broadcast on the network.  Did you discover something else about
> either
> C/A or FTP to indicate a strong security preference in one direction or
> another?
> 
> jte
> 
> 
> 
> > And if you're going
> > to have a connection, you might as well have the NT machine take the
> file
> > off the IFS rather than do a C/A transfer. If you are on V4R4 the
> formatting
> > to make a CSV, TXT file or whatever format file are a breeze, from there
> > simply FTP it with a PUT statement. If your not, it's simply an extra
> step
> > to do so.
> > I spent a fair amount of time researching this same issue ( So I'm a bit
> > slow ) and after deciding on FTP, it took less than a week to fully
> > implement both sides.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Robert Perno [SMTP:r_perno@wshein.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 12:07 PM
> > > To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange. com (E-mail)
> > > Subject:      Automate Client Access Transfer
> > >
> > > Is there a way to run a 400 to PC transfer request(*.tto) with a CL
> > > command.
> > > I need to load/update a ship-to file on our NT server which is used by
> 3rd
> > > party shipping software in our warehouse department.  I would like to
> run
> > > this program off the AS400 scheduler.
> > >
> > > Robert D. Perno
> > > Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> > > William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
> > > +---
> 
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