[3994] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: OS/390 and WWW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arjan Vos)
Wed Jan 15 21:32:39 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 00:59:45 +0100 (MET)
From: Arjan Vos <arjan@pino.demon.nl>
To: Shin Katsumata <skat@flask.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970115164928.24497C-100000@ns1.flask.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Shin Katsumata wrote:
Thanks for your reply...
>
> I don't expect to find payroll information out on intranet, however, I
it was just an example..
> would not mind getting access to information on web, which are currently
> only available on 3270 terminals, like which parts are available in
> stock, which parts are being used in other products (prefered parts),
> project status, etc,
I agree with that
>
> Many large corporations do keep more information on a mainframe than just
> payroll. As for your suggestion to query DB2 instead of web server sounds
> good, but what about pre-DB2 databases? Could we still setup a unix
> server to query mainframe? Probably, but which path is easier. I doubt
> many corporations would want to spend too much time with pre-DB2
> databases, since they are probably in process of eliminating them. Web
> Server on OS/390 may be the easiest way to serve the information until
> they pull the plug.
I'm not a mainframe expert (do pre-DB2 databases really exist :-)?), but a
setup could be to split a mainframe in two seperated environments with
LPAR's (LPAR's it's called, isn't it?) with one side having a UNIX-part
and taking all requests/queries and after evaluation relaying those
requests in some pre-format way to the other "secure" side.
Arjan Vos
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