{"id":10219,"date":"2009-10-27T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T14:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=10219"},"modified":"2014-06-23T12:19:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T16:19:56","slug":"bluezone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/desktop\/software\/mainframe\/bluezone\/","title":{"rendered":"BlueZone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlueZone provides secure, encrypted mainframe 3270 terminal emulation service over the Internet. It also provides a secure FTP service for file transfers to\/from the UIS mainframe, or a user-customizable FTP service for file transfers to\/from FTP hosts other than UIS.<\/p>\n<p>BlueZone is  \u201cthick client\u201d terminal emulation software, but it installs and upgrades from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/desktop\/software\/mainframe\/bluezone\/installing-bluezone\/\">IS&amp;T BlueZone website<\/a>.   BlueZone is fully supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/about\/help-center\/\">IT Help Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Secure encrypted transmission<\/strong> \u2013 There\u2019s no security vulnerability or exposure in the data that flows between your PC and the mainframe.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web-based installation<\/strong> \u2013 BlueZone installs from the Web.  A few clicks of the mouse and BlueZone downloads, installs, and is ready to use.  Updates are also done via the Web.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It\u2019s free<\/strong> &#8211; There is no software to purchase or upgrade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>OS<\/strong><br \/>\nWindows 2000, XP, VISTA, or Windows 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Important:<\/strong> <strong>Pre-approval is required.<\/strong><br \/>\nYou must <a href=\"mailto:ithelp@bu.edu\">request approval<\/a> to install and use BlueZone. Failure to obtain prior approval before attempting to install BlueZone will result in an unsuccessful installation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlueZone provides secure, encrypted mainframe 3270 terminal emulation service over the Internet. It also provides a secure FTP service for file transfers to\/from the UIS mainframe, or a user-customizable FTP service for file transfers to\/from FTP hosts other than UIS. BlueZone is \u201cthick client\u201d terminal emulation software, but it installs and upgrades from the IS&amp;T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":10197,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150565,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10219\/revisions\/150565"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}