Re: IBM switching from ftp to secure ftp to download PTF's.

This is one reason I suggest customers regularly test the ability to contact IBM. Things like SNDPTFORD and Send a *TEST service request. Some customers even when firewall ports were permitted the firewall team says: "Well no action on that for 90 days, we're closing it."

- DrF

On 5/26/2021 10:02 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

I'm anxious to give this SFTP a try. I cannot get all the way through a ftp session on any of my IBM i lpars anymore. Oh, it starts and downloads a goodly portion of the number of .iso files but seems to abort a few GB in on one of the later iso files. I suspect something with changes the network guy is doing. Now I initiate the ftp from a PC server and when it's done transfer that to each hosting lpar. Of course I'll have to beg and plead with the network guy to open up the sftp ports and spend a few days trying to explain to him why the client side uses random ports. He likes to Catbert me on this and try to get me to get IBM to change all their code.

He had sniffed the comm for quite some time and locked down a bunch of stuff that wasn't used. Of course that was during the time he was sniffing and doesn't include things like quarterly PTF's.

Rob Berendt