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Re: IBM Discontinuing unencrypted fix downloads

I'm guessing they simply don't want to do the digging and would rather feed us generalities.

Thing is, it confuses everyone and makes them look lazy.

I expect that two things are true with respect to SNDPTFORD, both of which they know but are not telling us.

A) Releases prior to a certain level will ONLY do UN-encrypted transmissions. So at that date they conk out.
B) For the releases that CAN do encrypted transfers, a minimum PTF level is required. If not at that level SNDPTFORD will also conk out.

Why they don't specify that appears to be just laziness.

- DrF

On 11/29/2022 5:04 PM, Michael Quigley wrote:
I thought it would communicate encrypted, but I wasn't sure. What stumps/concerns me is that SNDPTFORD is specifically listed among the applications/tools that could be impacted.

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way international
www.TheWay.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 7:51 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-
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Subject: Re: IBM Discontinuing unencrypted fix downloads

I was of the impression that it uses https, so encyrpted. And I just
tested it and see https for the port number (443).

I have been hassling IBM as to what is actually changing for IBM i. They
discontinued ftp downloads (for ftps) some time ago. You and I cannot
change the way SNDPTFORD works, that's IBM's goo.

So far all they can tell me is "Efective Febrary 15, 2023 IBM will no
longer support unencrypted fix downloads." Yeah, I knew that. But what
is CHANGING? What TODAY can I do without encryption that I will no
longer be able to do on Feb 16?

They can't answer that. They just ask me to provide the method I
currently use and they will tell me if that works after the 15th.

I think the note was simply confusing, because from my chair they
already did all that and NOTHING will change for us on Feb 15.

DrF

On 11/28/2022 11:14 PM, Michael Quigley wrote:
In the IBM document 6837885
(https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fww
w.ibm.com%2Fsupport%2Fpages%2Fnode%2F6837885&amp;data=05%7C01
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states effective February 15, 2023 IBM will no longer support unencrypted fix
downloads. Included in the list of "fix acquisition systems/tools" is the
SNDPTFORD command. Does anyone know if there's a way to have
SNDPTFORD use encryption?

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way international

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