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Subject: IBM FTP sites
From: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:32:18 -0600
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Most of my customers have firewall rules in place restricting FTP and such. Yep all good.
I send the lates IBM documentation to them about what URLs/Addresses to open up so we can download PTFs etc. Again all good. (From a document dated late last year 2025 so recent)

So I go to download PTFs thinking all should be good and where does the FTP get redirected to:

http://delivery01-bld.southdata.ibm.com

What the F is southdata.ibm.com. Never heard of that before and of course it’s not on the list that was provided so firewall says nope, not gonna do it.

IBM what’s going on?

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects

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