RE: Scanning the iSeries (IFS) for Viruses

HTH
Vern

Vern,  what about IXS servers in the iSeries?  Do those devices make use of
the VLAN in the iSeries for high-bandwidth access?  I REALLY know nothing of
the new PC cards.

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:32 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Scanning the iSeries (IFS) for Viruses

Can't speak for Tom, but scanning a machine, whether Windows or iSeries, is
inherently slow because of communications. Everything has to be transferred
to the PC in such a case. So native will be faster, unless the integrated
solution works.

Same lag occurs when trying to zip something on the 400 from a PC. Faster
to download the thing, then zip it. Unfortunately, in my experience, jar
and gzip (available free from IBM) are slower native on iSeries than, say
WinZip, on a PC.

MHO
Vern

At 08:54 PM 1/29/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> > From: Tom Liotta
> >
> > Scanning from a PC out on the network is 'workable', but numerous
>problems
> > are overcome by having an iSeries native solution running instead.
>
>Really?  What sorts of problems?  I've always wondered about this.
>
>Joe