Re: 'green screen' not sellable --> WE(?) are the problem

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would suggest you post your questions to the Web400 list.  Guys like Alan Seiden and Zend’s Mike Pavlak probably do not hang out on this list.

I have not experienced the security issues you mention - we have had no such problems and did nothing special in the install that I can recall.  We pass our PCI compliance testing with flying colours so …

I’m blind copying Mike P on this as I think he may want to jump on somebody’s head in Germany.  As far as I know the IBM has no intention of not renewing the Zend contract and Zend PHP will be with us for many years. We use Zend rather than the alternatives because of the debugging, caching and other capabilities.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:40 PM, Holger Scherer <hs@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Confusing you was one of my goals ;-) just kidding.
>
> The issue is the installation. A normal Zendcore setup does not respect certain security settings for different user groups to separate their data. It is rather easy to peek into other users sources / data if one does not pay attention.
>
> As we are not THAT experts in PHP and Zend, we contacted them here in germany (i personally know some of the sales people) so they routed me to technical staff. Had some discussions, we offered a playground to them to review these issues - not much reaction. Some technicians left Zend, others restarted the review, came back later with some statements about the free Zend community edition on i will not be supported on that detailed base....
>
> It is a long story which ended in no perfect results. We do not have the time at the moment to fiddle around with all that stuff, Zend doesnt seem to have time, too.
>
> If someone on this list is willing to do so and has some time and expertise, we can create a little LPAR as a playground to work with Zendcore
> (or with raw PHP, why do we need to use Zend? ;-) and see what is needed to be done, so we can create a common community setup.
>
> -h
>
>
>
>
> Am 09.06.15 um 01:33 schrieb Jon Paris:
> > You have confused the heck out of me with this Holger.
> >
> > First IBM i is a huge part of Zend’s revenues so I can’t see how you can possibly say they are “not interested”.
> >
> > Second - why do we need to set up PHP at all? It is free on IBM i - IBM pays for it and installation is the same as any other product - what’s the problem?
> >
> >
> > Jon Paris
> >
> > www.partner400.com
> > www.SystemiDeveloper.com
> >
> > On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:23 PM, Holger Scherer <hs@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Talked to the Zend people - forget them, they're not very interested in the i platform. So we need to setup PHP manually, but will be done soon.
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