Re: IBM i PTF Download migration to FTPS

["Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw that but I've used both and used the old one enough not to care. 
They also never mention that this won't work on older releases of IBM i. 
I'm OK with that but it would have headed off a lot of questions if they 
stated it clearly.

On the PTF order they also give you a link to setting up SSH so you can 
putty to your IBM i and download them from there. Sadly you cannot view 
that document if your IBM ID is not an email address. When I asked IBM 
about it yesterday they told me that the change would be in effect until 
next week..... Apparently the left and right hand not talking because it 
already was in effect when I asked about it!

 - Larry

On 7/19/2021 4:13 PM, Bryan Dietz wrote:
> I'll be working thru this doc this week.
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/637295
>
> I was disappointed that the documentation is for the old version of DCM.
> Since the FTPS support is only for "newer" versions of the OS you would 
> think that the doc could be "refreshed" to use use the new DCM
> ( http://your_ibm_i:2001/dcm )
>
> New tools but old documentation.....
>
> Bryan
>
>
> Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote on 7/18/2021 10:49 PM:
> > It has in fact come to pass. You do get three emails now the second 
> > has server, user, directory and file information, and the third email 
> > has the password.
> >
> > Reminder to use secopen rather than open in any ftp scripts.
> >
> > It fails on i 7.1.  I rather expect it worn't work from i 7.2 either 
> > due to missing ciphers. It does work on i 7.3.
> >
> > Be sure to follow the instructions here to trust the IBM certificate.
> >
> > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1077897
> >
> >      - DrF