Re: Automate Client Access Transfer

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dale,

Could you please help me understand this...

"Draper, Dale" wrote:

> The main problem we found with this is opening the C/A connection and the
> security issues associated with that, so decided on FTP.

I'm not aware of any way in which C/A is less secure than FTP.  Arguably, it can
be more secure because you can use SSL to cause C/A to encrypt passwords before
they are broadcast on the network.  Did you discover something else about either
C/A or FTP to indicate a strong security preference in one direction or another?

jte



> And if you're going
> to have a connection, you might as well have the NT machine take the file
> off the IFS rather than do a C/A transfer. If you are on V4R4 the formatting
> to make a CSV, TXT file or whatever format file are a breeze, from there
> simply FTP it with a PUT statement. If your not, it's simply an extra step
> to do so.
> I spent a fair amount of time researching this same issue ( So I'm a bit
> slow ) and after deciding on FTP, it took less than a week to fully
> implement both sides.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Perno [SMTP:r_perno@wshein.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 12:07 PM
> > To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange. com (E-mail)
> > Subject:      Automate Client Access Transfer
> >
> > Is there a way to run a 400 to PC transfer request(*.tto) with a CL
> > command.
> > I need to load/update a ship-to file on our NT server which is used by 3rd
> > party shipping software in our warehouse department.  I would like to run
> > this program off the AS400 scheduler.
> >
> > Robert D. Perno
> > Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> > William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
> > +---

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John Earl                    johnearl@400security.com
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