Thanks! (was Re: [Micronet] UC Berkeley mainframe TN3270 emulation going SSL/TLS.)

On Feb 15, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Greg Merritt wrote:

> On Feb 5, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Richard Poliak wrote:
>> Because of the potential disruption of service to users who logon
>> to UC Berkeley’s mainframe, I will be sending this email once a
>> week for the next several weeks…. I apologize in advance for the
>> additional emails.
>>
>> To comply with the UC Berkeley Minimum Security Standards for
>> Networked Devices, IST–Infrastructure Services is securing the
>> method by which connections are made to the campus mainframe.
>> This security change affects all personnel who connect to UCB’s
>> IBM mainframe using a TN3270 emulator client program.
>>
>> Please read the article UC Berkeley mainframe TN3270 emulation
>> going SSL/TLS referenced on the http://inews.berkeley.edu:7077/
>> website.
>>
>> Rich Poliak
>
>
> Hi Rich (and magnet & micronet),
>
> We are experiencing a great deal of strangeness related to this
> change....

All --

Rich and I linked up by phone a little bit ago. (Thanks, Rich!) The
long & short of it is that OPTRS/CSP access via SSL'd tn3270/ironwood
will be available soon, but not quite yet. We were jumping the gun,
and a strange combination of unanticipated client settings and
mainframe login session caching behavior actually made it *look* like
the April configuration was available already.

Thanks again, Rich.

Regards,
-Greg

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