Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows
- From: rfochtman@xxxxxxx (Rick Fochtman)
- Date: 19 Mar 2008 10:00:46 -0700
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A lot has been said about MVS/DNS/etc..., knowing the IP address of the workstation in order for MVS to initiate the FTP "down" to the WS. Most have said it needs to be a static IP address.-----------------------------<unsnip>---------------------
At this site, we use static IP addresses. However, while I no longer have the VBS/WSF (a VB script) file, at a prior site I wrote a plain-ole BAT/CMD file which called CSCRIPT to process the VBS/WSF file which would parse a txt file that was the output of "IPCONFIG /ALL > IPINFO.TXT". The data in the file contained the current WS IP address.
Once the file was parsed (I got the data I needed), I knew the IP address and would save it to a one-line TXT file which was then FTP'ed to the MVS host and stored in a flat file which was read, actually copied, into the 'host side' FTP SYSIN file. Now, I had what I needed to know to initiate the FTP down to the workstation. Using the Scheduled Tasks utility in XP, the BAT/CMD file would be kicked off at system started up (boot) and daily, about 10-15 minutes before the first MVS job of the day that produced the data I needed on the WS.
While there may have been a better solution, or one more robust/reliable, it was not as ugly as it seems and the end result was it worked! In the time I was there using this process, there was only one occasion when the lease of a workstation expired between the time the IP address was FTPed to the host and the time the host needed the IP address to send the data down. I had intentions of rewriting the script file, but you know how that is.
This is all very interesting but it doesn't address the issue of security very well. I'm stuck with a direct COMCAST connection to my LAN that I can't disable without disabling my telephones as well. So how to I assure that some "hacker" from outside doesn't "ghost" a virus or some form of spyware onto my PC? Running WinXP Pro.
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