I am ready to implement MQ as soon as the other side is good to go....so this is just a temporary quick fix until they are ready.
/b;
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:16 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Job Triggering on FTP Completion
Yeah, allowing (plain) FTP into your system from outside your firewall
(except via VPN) is extremely dangerous. FTP is a plain-text protocol,
and even networking beginners would be able to get the userid/password
and use it against you.
But that wasn't really what this thread was about, was it? I assume
the appropriate VPN is in place, and the people logging in are trusted
business associates.
The question is how to trigger an action. Personally, I would either do
so based on the FTP job *ending* (not the file transfer itself) or else
I'd do it on a journal of a particular IFS directory (using appropriate
locking checks to verify that the transfer has completed before processing.)
Though, a much better alternative is to replace the whole FTP process
with a web service.
James H. H. Lampert wrote:
Which is why we don't allow any FTP traffic into our 400s from outside
the firewall. And why the OP had better know all the consequences of
opening the FTP port to outside traffic, whether he uses them or
attempts to keep them from being used.
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