SAVRSTxxx and STRPASTHR

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A Recent thread about about V5R4 to V7 upgrade brought up the point 
below.  While I don't dispute the sentiment of the note with respect to 
leave the old behind and move forward, I'm not sure I agree with the 
drop SAVRSTxxx in favor of Save, FTP, telnet, restore process either.

Granted I'm not really all that good at networking but it occurs to me 
to set up pass through and SAVRSTxxx takes three (maybe four) changes to 
the network attributes, a controller description, and a device 
description  for each node.  If I can get it to work then anyone can.  
Since this is all running over TCP/IP, and works quite well over VPN 
connections (I use it every day in that environment), how is this bad?  
I get the get rid of SNA part, but the set up for this seems to me to be 
quite easy, reliable, fast, and gives folks what they want without undue 
systems management.  Twenty minutes to set it up, maybe an IPL if 
network attributes need to change, and it's done.   If I am wrong, what 
am I missing?

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 9/18/2012 6:38 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Third option on point 2 (ANYNET).  Stop using SNA.  We did.  The easy
> stuff was getting the last holdouts off of STRPASTHR and on to TELNET.  A
> nicely wrapped "Tough shirt, try ftp" was given to those fond of
> SAVRSTOBJ.  Along with an encouragement on our Change Management System.
> We used to have a bunch of SNDNETF's back when we had multiple ERP
> machines communicating to a central EDI machine but we had weaned off of
> that long ago.