Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-27 Thread Bob Bridges
rd3" >.> "ext" Surely this is what Thomas expected. I can't imagine what would legitimately cause REXX to behave in any other way - and I don't understand why anyone would expect anything different. Now I'm going to go read that link someone posted that

Re: [ISPF-L] "macro_msg" edit macro command not working for "COMPARE" command?

2020-02-03 Thread Bob Bridges
I've never used the COMPARE command. (Never used MACRO_MSG, either.) What message were you expecting from COMPARE? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* By 2005 or so, it will be clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax

Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...

2019-12-03 Thread Bob Bridges
even if some combination of moves make it possible, how is it possible to do it "carelessly"? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks r

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-11 Thread Bob Bridges
desire to spend time and money on fixing the problem. Also I should understand the method pretty thoroughly myself, lest I be reduced under cross-examination to "gee, I heard there was a way using a pin-wire flummox, but I'm not sure how that works..." --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-09 Thread Bob Bridges
Ok, but the only way to submit a job via SYSOUT=(A,INTRDR) is to have TSO in the first place, right? What I'm asking is how users might submit batch who ~don't~ have TSO. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* In an emergency, a drawstring from a parka hood c

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-09 Thread Bob Bridges
e batch jobs also have TSO and/or a UID. I don't know much about SSH or Telnet - hardly anything about them, in fact. Is it worth asking for details? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come

Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-04 Thread Bob Bridges
yone confirm? If I were a CICS user without the ability to log on to TSO, could I still submit a batch job somehow? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* You know you've had too much coffee when Juan Valdez names his donkey after you. You've w

Re: Just how secure are mainframes? | Trevor Eddolls

2019-06-11 Thread Bob Bridges
st assumptions. But apparently not. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Nearly all men can stand adversity. If you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTS

Re: Can backup mechanisms be used to steal RACF database? was Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-09 Thread Bob Bridges
so, a situation most ardently to be avoided :). The lesson I take from this, and pass on to my clients, is that read access to the security database is a huge exposure and in most cases - that is, for most user IDs - completely unnecessary. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313

Re: Can backup mechanisms be used to steal RACF database? was Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-09 Thread Bob Bridges
but just to establish how effective might be the new version of John the Ripper. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment. -Ira Gassen */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-07 Thread Bob Bridges
Yeah, about that: What ~is~ a "controled program"? I noticed that qualification, but my background is apps development and I'm woefully ignorant in spots. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a g

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-07 Thread Bob Bridges
database. In the Swedish hack, the original stolen ID had read access to the RACF database. The hackers downloaded the database, then applied a dictionary attack to it at their leisure, thus getting thousands of passwords not only in that LPAR but in another one visited by the same use

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-07 Thread Bob Bridges
nt three clients seem all to have this feature turned on, that is, they're controling access to dumps. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now. */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussio

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-07 Thread Bob Bridges
as to maximize the number of systems that are secured. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Unspecified error; smash forehead on keyboard to continue. */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Nightwat

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-07 Thread Bob Bridges
y auto-run event processing. I was not an inveterate MS-basher, but I nearly became one for a while. Then they finally began to see the light - ~very~ late, in my opinion, but better late than never. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* I don't want the cheese

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-07 Thread Bob Bridges
progress toward figuring out Colossal Cave's "magic mode" before I left there for another job. It's primarily by remembering those days that I came to understand why MVS users nowadays need special authority to create a program dump. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 33

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-06 Thread Bob Bridges
when the ID was created. Using a standalone PC they cracked about 30 000 passwords (out of 120 000 on Applicat’s database) in 'a couple of days'." --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off it

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-06 Thread Bob Bridges
ant you to think I'm claiming expertise in the subject. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If the Earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now. */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-06 Thread Bob Bridges
ndows' life it was essentially a one-operator OS; whatever you did to Windows was just you, not (usually) someone reaching in from outside. Then, too, it took a while for MS to get religion about security. But first and foremost, IMVHO, it's that MVS has been around so much longer.

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-02-04 Thread Bob Bridges
;t tell me anything, but can you provide some background? I don't know what I would see in an ABMLISTing that would tell me anything I need to know about a CSI. --- Bob Bridges, cell 336 382-7313 robhbrid...@gmail.com rbrid...@infosecinc.com /* Paramedic Rule #2: All bleeding stopseve

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-31 Thread Bob Bridges
and peruse the documentation. You probably won't hear many more questions from me for a while, therefore, but I'm certain to be back eventually. --- Bob Bridges, cell 336 382-7313 robhbrid...@gmail.com rbrid...@infosecinc.com /* A fanatic is someone who does what he knows God

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-30 Thread Bob Bridges
Carmen, what do you mean by "not all PTFs will apply or restore"? If you mean that there's a PTF that cannot be applied, how then is it a PTF? And if you can APPLY it but not RESTORE...I'm incredulous. Can you expand on that? --- Bob Bridges, cell 336 382-7313 robhbrid.

Re: Style (was: Newbie SMP/E questions)

2019-01-29 Thread Bob Bridges
d numbers are slightly more work but For multiple contributors and especially for multiple iterations they add a great deal to clarity; see below. --- Bob Bridges, cell 336 382-7313 robhbrid...@gmail.com rbrid...@infosecinc.com /* Law #31 of combat operations: If the enemy is within rang

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Bob Bridges
Never heard of CA-MSM, but I'll look into it. (I've been in contact with Bob Boerum at CA, but he's never mentioned it.) We've been using the SMP/E panels, and, as you say, letting them construct the JCL. --- Bob Bridges, cell 336 382-7313 robhbrid...@gmail.com rbr

Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Bob Bridges
for various reasons. It doesn't seem to, though; it names them and complains about them, but doesn't add them to the list. Have I misunderstood something? I'm loathe to believe the documentation is flat wrong. If you're getting ready to send rushed messages saying

Re: Throwback Thursday: Logic, shmogic, we've got a process | Computerworld Shark Tank

2019-01-25 Thread Bob Bridges
It wrapped at my end, but I don't see the problem; if I want to follow the link I'll just reässemble it. --- Bob Bridges, cell 336 382-7313 robhbrid...@gmail.com rbrid...@infosecinc.com /* Think hard about whether a voice-enabled device is right for you. That includes products f

Digital certificates, probably inactive

2019-01-16 Thread Bob Bridges
an be removed? If this is not the right place to ask, feel free to steer me somewhere else, with or without derisive flames as it suits you :). I'm reading documentation, but it's also nice to get confirmation from experienced admins, especially in a subject with so many corners and

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