Strarting two instant of MQ in one LPAR

[Mohamed Juma]

  Hi,Isit possible so start two MQ in one LPAR, each one of them has different 
IPAddress,andif is ok how to code the IP address Thanks, MohamedJumaMOI,Kuwait  

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Re: SYSZMCS Hang

[Edward Finnell]

Hard to say w/o more info. Are there any SIM messages logged? My guess is  
some hardware something failed and XCF signaling  is stuck. If you can  
purge the offender might be able to get by.
 
Found an old 2004 APAR OA05697 but that's about it.
 

MSGCNZMSG4 OA05697 INVALID GEPL DETECTED IN IEAVG603 ON SYSTEM

. ISSUING DUMP. PLEASE SEND TO CONSOLE L2.


.
 
 
In a message dated 9/20/2016 8:59:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
robert.richa...@opm.gov writes:

Just got  a call from work. Is there a way to free a SYSZMCS hang in a 
sysplex without  IPLs?


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SYSZMCS Hang

[Richards, Robert B.]

Just got a call from work. Is there a way to free a SYSZMCS hang in a sysplex 
without IPLs?

Thought I would ask here while I pursue the investigation.

Bob

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Re: Corporate lawsuit exposure Was: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Jack J. Woehr]

Joel C. Ewing wrote:

Unfortunately in a large corporate environment you may have a large
number of users with access to workstations who are not sophisticated
enough to understand software licensing distinctions.


My experience in Fortune 100 Land is that these policies readily transmute themselves into tools for maintaining the 
status quo

and shielding the incompetent rather than protecting the institution or the 
customers.

My suggestion is that institutions create trained cadres of Open Source Officers (OSO, The Bear) and have one in each 
technical

dep't. empowere to approve/disapprovite in a timely fashion all requests to 
install specific open source packages.

If the glasshouse doesn't get a shovel handy, it's going to suffocate under its own mountain of bullfeathers. When I was 
younger and studying

Roman history, I could understand the Roman Republic and the early Empire, but 
found the Byzantine Era impenetrable. At this
point in my life, I understand the Byzantine Era much better than I did before!

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Re: Corporate lawsuit exposure Was: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Lester, Bob]

Hi Joel,

 Indeed.  We are a fairly small shop  (less than 2,000 employees).  We do 
not allow end-users or most IT folks to install software on their company 
device.  Too many variables - Licensing is a big one for use, but we're also 
concerned about any software that talks to our infrastructure - we have to 
review any new software - regardless of the licensing policy of the product.  

 Occasionally, this is a pain in the butt for us techie types.  Even though 
I'm a senior MF guy with 26 years on the job (and also doing linux and unix), I 
have personally fought that battle and lost.

IMHO, With all the threats out there, companies (like mine and many others, 
I suspect) are just doing whey that have to do to protect themselves and their 
customers.

 It's a much different world in IT than it was (even) 10 years ago.  Yes, I 
miss those days!

Thanks!
BobL


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Subject: Corporate lawsuit exposure Was: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of 
the z/OS 2.2 manuals) [ EXTERNAL ]

On 09/20/2016 11:53 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
> Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
> ...
>>   It takes only one software-piracy lawsuit to devour far more than 
>> our own contribution to the bottom line. We have to live by rules 
>> that may or may not be intended to protect us. The penalty for 
>> violating corporate policy can be severe in the extreme.
>
> Using without altering or redistributing open source licensed under 
> standard licenses (GNU/BSD-2/Apache/IBM Common, etc) is never software 
> piracy.
>
> Downloading a compiled "free" piece of software from random vendors is 
> legally dicey. Installing an RPM on z/Linux is not at all dicey.
> ...
>
Unfortunately in a large corporate environment you may have a large number of 
users with access to workstations who are not sophisticated
enough to understand software licensing distinctions.   A blanket
restriction on user installation of any additional software on a workstation or 
of running software from any unapproved external media is a policy that has 
some hope of being communicated to such users and possibly even enforced.  If 
you open up the flexibility to do otherwise, how do you explain to such users 
that just because they can freely download or install some software that they 
use at home and it runs OK at work without complaining, that this doesn't 
necessarily mean it's legal?  

I have seen a lot of software out there that is free for personal home use but 
requires a paid license to be legal in a business environment.  
There also used to be some personal software licenses that explicitly granted 
the user the right to use the same software on both his home and business 
workstations; but how is the company, if asked, able to prove in such cases 
that the software usage is legit and covered by a license in home-possession of 
a user acting within the scope of his personal license? And what if by some 
oversight that software fails to get deleted from the office workstation when 
that user leaves the company and takes his license with him?

I suspect the Linux case may not be 100% clear either.  I don't know of any 
specific cases with zLinux, but can one for certain rule out the possibility 
that one might install without restriction an RPM that adds a software 
repository, but that some RPMs within that repository might in fact be 
use-restricted in some way?  I'm pretty sure that in the case of Fedora Linux 
there are some packages that have migrated out of the main Fedora repositories 
over the years into other repositories precisely because of licensing issues; 
yet adding those other repositories without concern for those distinctions is a 
common accepted practice for many users.  And, when installing packages from a 
collection of repositories, how carefully does one even note which repository 
is the source?
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Corporate lawsuit exposure Was: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Joel C. Ewing]

On 09/20/2016 11:53 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
> Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
> ...
>>   It takes only one software-piracy lawsuit to devour far more than
>> our own contribution to the bottom line. We have to live by rules
>> that may or may not be intended to protect us. The penalty for
>> violating corporate policy can be severe in the extreme.
>
> Using without altering or redistributing open source licensed under
> standard licenses (GNU/BSD-2/Apache/IBM Common, etc) is never software
> piracy.
>
> Downloading a compiled "free" piece of software from random vendors is
> legally dicey. Installing an RPM on z/Linux is not at all dicey.
> ...
>
Unfortunately in a large corporate environment you may have a large
number of users with access to workstations who are not sophisticated
enough to understand software licensing distinctions.   A blanket
restriction on user installation of any additional software on a
workstation or of running software from any unapproved external media is
a policy that has some hope of being communicated to such users and
possibly even enforced.  If you open up the flexibility to do otherwise,
how do you explain to such users that just because they can freely
download or install some software that they use at home and it runs OK
at work without complaining, that this doesn't necessarily mean it's
legal?  

I have seen a lot of software out there that is free for personal home
use but requires a paid license to be legal in a business environment.  
There also used to be some personal software licenses that explicitly
granted the user the right to use the same software on both his home and
business workstations; but how is the company, if asked, able to prove
in such cases that the software usage is legit and covered by a license
in home-possession of a user acting within the scope of his personal
license? And what if by some oversight that software fails to get
deleted from the office workstation when that user leaves the company
and takes his license with him?

I suspect the Linux case may not be 100% clear either.  I don't know of
any specific cases with zLinux, but can one for certain rule out the
possibility that one might install without restriction an RPM that adds
a software repository, but that some RPMs within that repository might
in fact be use-restricted in some way?  I'm pretty sure that in the case
of Fedora Linux there are some packages that have migrated out of the
main Fedora repositories over the years into other repositories
precisely because of licensing issues; yet adding those other
repositories without concern for those distinctions is a common accepted
practice for many users.  And, when installing packages from a
collection of repositories, how carefully does one even note which
repository is the source?
Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR

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Re: Getting STC internal text (or equivalent)

[Itschak Mugzach]

Thanks Tom & John.
For TIOT, you are right. I tried rename the dataset described in jcl, and
it was not enqueued, so I believe it was freed by the task. as per OM, we
don;t have it here.
I was able to get the jcl from syslog, but the problem is that i might try
reading it days after it was offloaded. I think i'll go back to square one,
reading the proclib member and interpret it myself.

ITschal

ITschak Mugzach
Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments Professional

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Tom Brennan 
wrote:

> Omegamon -PEEK/DDNS?  I you have it...
>
> Itschak Mugzach wrote:
>
>> When I was young... there was CA-LOOK that let me display other task
>> datasets allocated. The task in question is started under the master, so I
>> can't look at the converted jcl, and I don't want to read the procedure
>> and
>> interpret the jcl myself. I tried GRS, but it seems that the started task
>> already deallocated the datasets. BTW, I also tried to submit a job with
>> typrun=scan,calling the procedure, but SYMDEFed symbols not
>> interpreted..-(
>>
>> Any idea how to get access the the other task TIOT, or any other way to
>> get
>> the information?
>>
>> ITschak
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Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 Tectia 6.4?

[Charles Mills]

I apologize - I have not been following this thread. From a programming point 
of view, USS and RACF managed certificates are pretty compatible. I am 
travelling but can get you more info if you need when I land.


CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity

 Original message 
From: "Roach, Dennis"  
Date: 9/20/16  9:13 AM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Subject: Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 
Tectia 6.4? 

Thanks for the replies. 
Unfortunately, the product was installed to use USS hostkeys files, with the 
user keys under the user's home directory, not RACF.
Since the product was ported from the UNIX/Linex/Windows environment, I have 
seen no documentation of it being able to use RACF.

For my certificates under RACF, I already have a report.

Dennis Roach, CISSP, PMP
AIG
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Of Elardus Engelbrecht
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 2:06 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 
Tectia 6.4?

Reposting after some RTFM about Tectia and ssh-certview ;-)

That is an interesting product, not too bad. (www.ssh.com)

Roach, Dennis wrote:

>>We need to verify that our certificates are not about to expire. I tried 
>>ssh-certview and get the following messages:
>>1.   ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub: Failed to open `.ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub': 
>>Character set conversions not initialized: cannot convert from 'IBM-1047' to 
>>'ISO8859-1'.
>>2.   ssh-certview: Failed to autodetect the object type.
>>3.   Trying to decode the public key file - failed.
>>Anyone have an idea?

Can you perhaps post just the first two or three lines of that file? Perhaps 
the encoding scheme is not correct or you need some parameter to correctly read 
 that file.

You can place that file in a dataset and then try out RACF to check that file's 
content.

RACDCERT CHECKCERT()

Alternatively, can you contact the vendor about this?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 Tectia 6.4?

[Charles Mills]

Gskkyman will export it as a file.


CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity

 Original message 
From: Phil Smith  
Date: 9/20/16  10:31 AM  (GMT-08:00) 
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Subject: Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 
Tectia 6.4? 

>Unfortunately, the product was installed to use USS hostkeys files, with the 
>user keys under the user's home directory, not RACF.
>Since the product was ported from the UNIX/Linex/Windows environment, I have 
>seen no documentation of it being able to use RACF.

If you mean it's in a gskkyman database, go into the database, enter option 2 
("Manage Certificates"), select the certificate, then enter 1 ("Show 
certificate information") and it will show the dates, among other things.

If you still have the cert as a file, copy it down to a workstation and feed it 
to https://www.sslshopper.com/certificate-decoder.html or any of a myriad of 
other certificate examiners (google "examine certificate" to find more).
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Re: Getting STC internal text (or equivalent)

[Tom Brennan]

Omegamon -PEEK/DDNS?  I you have it...

Itschak Mugzach wrote:

When I was young... there was CA-LOOK that let me display other task
datasets allocated. The task in question is started under the master, so I
can't look at the converted jcl, and I don't want to read the procedure and
interpret the jcl myself. I tried GRS, but it seems that the started task
already deallocated the datasets. BTW, I also tried to submit a job with
typrun=scan,calling the procedure, but SYMDEFed symbols not interpreted..-(

Any idea how to get access the the other task TIOT, or any other way to get
the information?

ITschak

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Re: Getting STC internal text (or equivalent)

[John McKown]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Itschak Mugzach  wrote:

> When I was young... there was CA-LOOK that let me display other task
> datasets allocated. The task in question is started under the master, so I
> can't look at the converted jcl, and I don't want to read the procedure and
> interpret the jcl myself. I tried GRS, but it seems that the started task
> already deallocated the datasets. BTW, I also tried to submit a job with
> typrun=scan,calling the procedure, but SYMDEFed symbols not interpreted..-(
>
> Any idea how to get access the the other task TIOT, or any other way to get
> the information?
>

​Well, if the STC has deallocated the DSN, then the TIOT will no longer
have an entry for it, so I don't see what good accessing it would be.

If the STC was started with SUB=MSTR as you indicated, then the "JESMSG"
type output should have been written to the z/OS SYSLOG or OPERLOG. Example:

NC000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.07 TSH009H1 0290  S DEALLOC,SUB=MSTR
M 008 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.10  0094  IRR812I PROFILE
DEALLOC.* (G) IN THE STARTED CLASS WAS USED 013
E 013 0094  TO START
DEALLOC WITH JOBNAME DEALLOC.
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.13  0294  IEF196I 1
//DEALLOC  JOB MSGLEVEL=1
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.13  0294  IEF196I 2
//STARTING EXEC DEALLOC
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.13  0294  IEF196I  STMT NO.
MESSAGE
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.13  0294  IEF196I 2
IEFC001I PROCEDURE DEALLOC WAS EXPANDED USING SYSTEM
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.14  0294  IEF196I LIBRARY
SYS1.IBM.PROCLIB
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.14  0294  IEF196I 3
XXDEALLOC EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.14  0294  IEF196I
  0303
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.14  0294  IEF196I 4
XXDUMMY1  DD   DUMMY
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.14  0294  IEF196I
  0305
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.14  0294  IEF196I
XX* THIS PROCEDURE IS ACTIVATED BY A 'START DEALLOC'
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.14  0294  IEF196I COMMAND TO
0603
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.14  0294  IEF196I
XX* EXECUTE IEFBR14 CAUSING ALLOCATION TO DEALLOCATE
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.14  0294  IEF196I A
   0903
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.15  0294  IEF196I
XX* DEVICE SPECIFIED ON A PREVIOUS 'VARY OFFLINE'
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.15  0294  IEF196I COMMAND.
   1203
N 002 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.16  0290  IEF695I START
DEALLOC  WITH JOBNAME DEALLOC  IS ASSIGNED TO USER DEALLOC
S, GROUP STCGRP
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.16  0294  IEF196I IEF695I
START DEALLOC  WITH JOBNAME DEALLOC  IS ASSIGNED TO
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.16  0294  IEF196I USER
DEALLOC , GROUP STCGRP
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.16  0094  IEF403I DEALLOC -
STARTED - TIME=14.45.24
N 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.17  0294  IEF196I IEF236I
ALLOC. FOR DEALLOC DEALLOC
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.17  0294  IEF196I IEF237I DMY
 ALLOCATED TO DUMMY1
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.17  0094  IEF404I DEALLOC -
ENDED - TIME=14.45.24
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.18  0294  IEF196I IEF142I
DEALLOC DEALLOC - STEP WAS EXECUTED - COND CODE 
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.18  0294  IEF196I IEF373I
STEP/DEALLOC /START 2016264.1445
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.18  0294  IEF196I IEF032I
STEP/DEALLOC /STOP  2016264.1445
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.18  0294  IEF196I CPU:
0 HR  00 MIN  00.00 SECSRB: 0 HR  00
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.18  0294  IEF196I MIN  00.00
SEC
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.18  0294  IEF196I
VIRT: 4K  SYS:   132K  EXT:4K  SYS:
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.19  0294  IEF196I 11204K
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.19  0294  IEF196I IEF375I
 JOB/DEALLOC /START 2016264.1445
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.20  0294  IEF196I IEF033I
 JOB/DEALLOC /STOP  2016264.1445
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.20  0294  IEF196I CPU:
0 HR  00 MIN  00.00 SECSRB: 0 HR  00
 000 LIH1 16264 14:45:24.20  0294  IEF196I MIN  00.00
SEC​



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Getting STC internal text (or equivalent)

[Itschak Mugzach]

When I was young... there was CA-LOOK that let me display other task
datasets allocated. The task in question is started under the master, so I
can't look at the converted jcl, and I don't want to read the procedure and
interpret the jcl myself. I tried GRS, but it seems that the started task
already deallocated the datasets. BTW, I also tried to submit a job with
typrun=scan,calling the procedure, but SYMDEFed symbols not interpreted..-(

Any idea how to get access the the other task TIOT, or any other way to get
the information?

ITschak

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Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 Tectia 6.4?

[Cieri, Anthony]

If you have the certificate file, you can simply copy it to temporary 
directory on any Windows based PC.  Rename the file to have a .crt extension 
(you will have to click OK to the warning message). Then double-click on the 
file. Widows will display the certificate attributes, including the start and 
end dates!!! Discard when finished!!

HTH
Tony


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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 1:31 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 
Tectia 6.4?

>Unfortunately, the product was installed to use USS hostkeys files, with the 
>user keys under the user's home directory, not RACF.
>Since the product was ported from the UNIX/Linex/Windows environment, I have 
>seen no documentation of it being able to use RACF.

If you mean it's in a gskkyman database, go into the database, enter option 2 
("Manage Certificates"), select the certificate, then enter 1 ("Show 
certificate information") and it will show the dates, among other things.

If you still have the cert as a file, copy it down to a workstation and feed it 
to https://www.sslshopper.com/certificate-decoder.html or any of a myriad of 
other certificate examiners (google "examine certificate" to find more).
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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Jack J. Woehr]

Tom Marchant wrote:

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:53:59 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote:

Not everyone on IBM-Main has access to a zLinux partition. Not everyone is able 
to use open source software.


True enough. But at this jolly moment in the history of our craft, methinks any mainframe operation which doesn't have 
such access is in a tailspin.



IBM made the mistake creating a file containing MVS documentation that couldn't 
be used by their customers who are on Windoze machines and who are not able to 
install any software on them.


The objective reality seems to be that one IBM employee made a trivial mistake which wouldn't have stopped a 15-year-old 
for three minutes
thusly setting off a week-long root cause analysis symposium among mature programmers with a few thousand years of 
collective experience.


I think it's indicative of something like "information technology managerial practices are dangerously and senselessly 
outdated", and maybe that each IBM mainframe customer needs a z/Linux LPAR if they want to stay in business.


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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Tony Harminc]

On 20 September 2016 at 12:18, Alan Young  wrote:

> This is correct. 7zip is not the problem. The problem is the end user's
> unzip application. The zip specification has been extended over time to
> support additional compression methods. See
> https://support.pkware.com/display/PKZIP/APPNOTE and
> https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT.  Section
> 4.4.3.2 has a quick summary of the feature versions. The current PKzip
> program will unzip the doc file created by 7zip.

This would all be fine if the file in question was a ZIP file.
According to my reading of even the latest version of the APPNOTE.TXT
file, IBM's file does not meet the specs for a ZIP file. In
particular, a required signature element is missing. Whether or not a
particular commercial product from PKWARE will decode this file misses
the point. It's not a question of new compression types; the entire
file wrapper is plain wrong.

Tony H.

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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Tom Marchant]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:53:59 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote:

>If the gang were using z/Linux regularly and had achieved familiarity, this 
>whole teapot tempest could never have
>arisen. Get to know that weird LPAR you keep around.

You seem to be saying that the fault is in the users.

Not everyone on IBM-Main has access to a zLinux partition. Not everyone is able 
to use open source software.

IBM made the mistake creating a file containing MVS documentation that couldn't 
be used by their customers who are on Windoze machines and who are not able to 
install any software on them.

>> It may be true that historically we had a lot more latitude than we do today.
>
>"The commander in the field is not bound by the whims of the sovereign." Sun 
>Dze, _Art of War_

Maybe so, but that has nothing to do with the present situation.

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Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 Tectia 6.4?

[Phil Smith]

>Unfortunately, the product was installed to use USS hostkeys files, with the 
>user keys under the user's home directory, not RACF.
>Since the product was ported from the UNIX/Linex/Windows environment, I have 
>seen no documentation of it being able to use RACF.

If you mean it's in a gskkyman database, go into the database, enter option 2 
("Manage Certificates"), select the certificate, then enter 1 ("Show 
certificate information") and it will show the dates, among other things.

If you still have the cert as a file, copy it down to a workstation and feed it 
to https://www.sslshopper.com/certificate-decoder.html or any of a myriad of 
other certificate examiners (google "examine certificate" to find more).
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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Jack J. Woehr]

Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:

This discussion has not quite devolved into a full-fledged snarkfest,


As Snarker in Chief, I feel obliged to reply and want to say I Feel Your Pain :)


  but I feel somewhat wounded by an earlier post dismissing us z-whiners for 
having lost our lust for digital adventure. Here is what we are: grownups 
working for companies large or small that are motivated by their own long-term 
interests.


And capable of working diligently against their own interests with a flair and 
a passion for years at a time.


  It takes only one software-piracy lawsuit to devour far more than our own 
contribution to the bottom line. We have to live by rules that may or may not 
be intended to protect us. The penalty for violating corporate policy can be 
severe in the extreme.


Using without altering or redistributing open source licensed under standard licenses (GNU/BSD-2/Apache/IBM Common, etc) 
is never software piracy.


Downloading a compiled "free" piece of software from random vendors is legally dicey. Installing an RPM on z/Linux is 
not at all dicey.



What we are not: sophomores hunched over a personal computer in our parents' 
basement, where we're free to do whatever we want as long we don't get grounded 
for missing curfew.


If Mr/Ms Manager wants these creaking, aging software metaphors to keep running in the 21st century, Mr/Ms Manager 
deuced well
better embrace a fluid Open Source Software culture. It's not just me telling you this: IBM has been gently trying to 
wean the Glass House
from the idea that vendors and/or IBM will meet their every need. Big, blue, corporate IBM has been steering you for 
about 20 years towards

Open Source Software. Because Offerings are being "stabilized" and Staff are 
being Reduced. Mene, mene, tekel upharsin :)


If the gang were using z/Linux regularly and had achieved familiarity, this whole teapot tempest could never have 
arisen. Get to know that weird LPAR you keep around.



It may be true that historically we had a lot more latitude than we do today.


"The commander in the field is not bound by the whims of the sovereign." Sun 
Dze, _Art of War_


, but then is not now. And BTW Dilbert is real. Batman is imaginary. Just look 
around your office to see the difference.


My basement is my office and is largely imaginary. VPNs provide what reality 
there is!


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Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 Tectia 6.4?

[Roach, Dennis]

Thanks for the replies. 
Unfortunately, the product was installed to use USS hostkeys files, with the 
user keys under the user's home directory, not RACF.
Since the product was ported from the UNIX/Linex/Windows environment, I have 
seen no documentation of it being able to use RACF.

For my certificates under RACF, I already have a report.

Dennis Roach, CISSP, PMP
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Subject: Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 
Tectia 6.4?

Reposting after some RTFM about Tectia and ssh-certview ;-)

That is an interesting product, not too bad. (www.ssh.com)

Roach, Dennis wrote:

>>We need to verify that our certificates are not about to expire. I tried 
>>ssh-certview and get the following messages:
>>1.   ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub: Failed to open `.ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub': 
>>Character set conversions not initialized: cannot convert from 'IBM-1047' to 
>>'ISO8859-1'.
>>2.   ssh-certview: Failed to autodetect the object type.
>>3.   Trying to decode the public key file - failed.
>>Anyone have an idea?

Can you perhaps post just the first two or three lines of that file? Perhaps 
the encoding scheme is not correct or you need some parameter to correctly read 
 that file.

You can place that file in a dataset and then try out RACF to check that file's 
content.

RACDCERT CHECKCERT()

Alternatively, can you contact the vendor about this?

Groete / Greetings
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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Alan Young]

Paul Gilmartin wrote:


Thanks for your quick action.  A few thoughts:

o "Admits" is a slightly biased word.  7-Zip is not the problem.  By experiment 
(a
  scientific sample of one test case) it works fine if one chooses the right 
options.

  


This is correct. 7zip is not the problem. The problem is the end user's 
unzip application. The zip specification has been extended over time to 
support additional compression methods. See 
https://support.pkware.com/display/PKZIP/APPNOTE and 
https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT.  Section 
4.4.3.2 has a quick summary of the feature versions. The current PKzip 
program will unzip the doc file created by 7zip. There is also a free 
windows PKunzip client that will unzip it. Winzip 18 will not unzip it. 
YMMV.


Alan

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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Jesse 1 Robinson]

This discussion has not quite devolved into a full-fledged snarkfest, but I 
feel somewhat wounded by an earlier post dismissing us z-whiners for having 
lost our lust for digital adventure. Here is what we are: grownups working for 
companies large or small that are motivated by their own long-term interests. 
It takes only one software-piracy lawsuit to devour far more than our own 
contribution to the bottom line. We have to live by rules that may or may not 
be intended to protect us. The penalty for violating corporate policy can be 
severe in the extreme.

What we are not: sophomores hunched over a personal computer in our parents' 
basement, where we're free to do whatever we want as long we don't get grounded 
for missing curfew. What the PFK can get away with in his private world has no 
bearing on how we are obliged to solve business problems at the behest and 
pleasure of real business owners. 

It may be true that historically we had a lot more latitude than we do today. I 
lament the good ol days as much as the next person, but then is not now. And 
BTW Dilbert is real. Batman is imaginary. Just look around your office to see 
the difference. 

.
.
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Southern California Edison Company
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SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
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626-302-7535 Office
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Subject: (External):Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 
manuals)

Thanks, all, for the further enlightening input. As you can see from Kevin's 
response clipped below, something nefarious did indeed befall the 4949 zip 
package somewhere along the way. He's investigating and will get it resolved as 
soon as possible.

In the meantime, the zip of indexed PDFs will post sometime today, so you can 
use that instead. We'll alert you when it's available.

On 09/20/16 8:19 AM, Kevin Minerley wrote:
> Tony:
>
> I stand corrected.  I only checked the unzip with 7-zip as I've been doing 
> for years so it worked for me and I, wronglyk, "assumed" it was working as 
> usual; however, it appears, the manufacturing process changed.  I am trying 
> to find out why and how and see if we can get another more "standard" zip put 
> up on IBM Publications Center.
>
> It will take some time as I don't own that end of the process and it's been a 
> "black box" for years.
>
> Kevin Minerley
> zOS, zVM, zVSE Softcopy CKIT/PKIT architect
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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 08:28:24 -0500, Kevin Minerley wrote:

>The packager admits to using 7-zip (yes, we all figured that out).
>
>Someone had suggested a "finger check" -- bingo.   
>
>I've asked the to repackage and test it in Windows before uploading the 
>replacement.
> 
Thanks for your quick action.  A few thoughts:

o "Admits" is a slightly biased word.  7-Zip is not the problem.  By experiment 
(a
  scientific sample of one test case) it works fine if one chooses the right 
options.

o A visual inspection of the 7-Zip display of the generated archive should show
  no compression methods other than "stored" and "deflated".

o For my experiment I skimmed the 7-Zip doc.  It mentions a command line
  interface.  That should imply that it's scriptable.  A script makes the 
process
  more repeatable, even if it's only a copy-and-paste from instructions on
  the screen.

o Test (also) on a platform other than Windows.  It eliminates one more bias.
  (Perhaps "jar" on z/OS 2.2 was grandstanding, but I chose tne most alien
  test environment available.)  Likewise, if the human resource is available,
  the tester should be a person other than the packager.

Thanks again,
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Re: CBT FILE672 help

[R.S.]

Lizette,
Thank you for the response.

Unfortunately I have no Tivoli SA, so this tool is quite OK.
It works without problems, the only problem I have is lack of 
understanding.

However you answered one of my questions!


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W dniu 2016-09-17 o 03:42, Lizette Koehler pisze:

First from 2004. So may be iffy it works.  I am not sure any would have this
running as there are today OPS/MVS Tivoli Automation, etc.


Second from the Assembler code

* NETINIT CAN PROCESS TWO TYPES OF COMMAND RECORDS.   * 0070
* THE VTAM COMMAND RECORDS DEFINE START COMMANDS FOR  * 0071
* VTAM APPLICATIONS. NETINIT WILL ISSUE THE GIVEN * 0072
* COMMAND AND THEN USE THE INQUIRE MACRO TO WAIT UNTIL* 0073
* THE ASSOCIATED VTAM APPLICATION BECOMES ACTIVE. FOR THE * 0074
* COMMAND COMMAND RECORDS, NETINIT ISSUES THE GIVEN   * 0075
* COMMAND BUT DOESN'T MONITOR FOR ITS COMPLETION. * 0076
* * 0077

So my guess is that it will either monitor for a task to see if that task should
come up or not monitor.

Lizette



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I'm trying to understand format of SYSIN control cards.
I read the $INSTALL and #DOC, but it's still unclear to me.

Q1. What is the meaning of column 1 - level?
Example
1 CF CICSAAA1,CEMT P SHUT I
4 CF CICSBBB2,CEMT P SHUT I
2 C 003 T  P TSO
1 C 005 T  F CICSCCC3,CEMT P SHUT
What will be the order of commands?

Q2. C vs V in column 3. What does it mean the "status of command will be
monitored"?

Q3. T in column 9. As far as I understand,any timer value without T will be
ignored? Is it true?

Q4. Cols 11-18, VTAM application. What is the purpose of the field? In the
above example there is no VTAM application provided in any control card. What
would change if I provide  the applids?


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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Kevin Minerley]

The packager admits to using 7-zip (yes, we all figured that out).

Someone had suggested a "finger check" -- bingo.   

I've asked the to repackage and test it in Windows before uploading the 
replacement.

Kevin Minerley
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Re: Db2 8.1 on z/OS 2.1

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

Lucas Rosalen wrote:

>Maybe
>http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/index.jsp can
>have good reports?

This is it! Wow! I have tested some products and that page is working like a 
charm!

Many thanks for kindly giving this link. I'm very humbled by your kindness.

I have bookmarked that link.

Oh, BTW - I'm told offlist someone is running DB2 v8 on z/OS v2.2 without any 
problems at all. 

Groete / Greetings
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Re: Db2 8.1 on z/OS 2.1

[Lucas Rosalen]

Maybe
http://www-969.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/index.jsp can
have good reports?

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2016-09-20 14:22 GMT+02:00 Elardus Engelbrecht <
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za>:

> Nathan Astle wrote:
>
> >Is there anyone who has db2 8.1 running on zOS 2.1 ?
>
> DB2 8.1 EOS is on 2012/04/30, but z/OS v2.1 GA is 2013/09/30.
>
> I doubt if someone is running that combination [1] , but ...
>
> >Any significant change in db2 performance with respect to the above ?
>
> Please tell us why are you asking or what problem are you trying to solve?
>
> Groete / Greetings
> Elardus Engelbrecht
>
> [1] - Is there such a global cross compatibility table showing which
> software / software combination can run on what operating system?
>
> I only get such tables for some products which says "can run on z/OS vB,
> vC, vD and on vA with some PTFs"
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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Susan Shumway]

Thanks, all, for the further enlightening input. As you can see from 
Kevin's response clipped below, something nefarious did indeed befall 
the 4949 zip package somewhere along the way. He's investigating and 
will get it resolved as soon as possible.


In the meantime, the zip of indexed PDFs will post sometime today, so 
you can use that instead. We'll alert you when it's available.


On 09/20/16 8:19 AM, Kevin Minerley wrote:

Tony:

I stand corrected.  I only checked the unzip with 7-zip as I've been doing for years so it worked 
for me and I, wronglyk, "assumed" it was working as usual; however, it appears, the 
manufacturing process changed.  I am trying to find out why and how and see if we can get another 
more "standard" zip put up on IBM Publications Center.

It will take some time as I don't own that end of the process and it's been a "black 
box" for years.

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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Jack J. Woehr]

Tom Marchant wrote:
You missed an important point. Many of us are running on corporate Windoze machines, and some are not able or 
permitted to install anything that is not approved by corporate. 


1. z/Linux
2. Kick your manager in the butt and explain that Dilbert is a fictional 
character :)

"Twilight of the mainframe"? That idea is no more true today than it was 30 years ago. 


It's twilight because there just isn't the creative ferment there anymore, nor 
the critical mass.


They still run, they're still useful, but "the glory has departed", Ichabod :)

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Re: Db2 8.1 on z/OS 2.1

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

Nathan Astle wrote:

>Is there anyone who has db2 8.1 running on zOS 2.1 ?

DB2 8.1 EOS is on 2012/04/30, but z/OS v2.1 GA is 2013/09/30.

I doubt if someone is running that combination [1] , but ...

>Any significant change in db2 performance with respect to the above ?

Please tell us why are you asking or what problem are you trying to solve?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

[1] - Is there such a global cross compatibility table showing which software / 
software combination can run on what operating system? 

I only get such tables for some products which says "can run on z/OS vB, vC, vD 
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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Kevin Minerley]

Tony:

I stand corrected.  I only checked the unzip with 7-zip as I've been doing for 
years so it worked for me and I, wronglyk, "assumed" it was working as usual; 
however, it appears, the manufacturing process changed.  I am trying to find 
out why and how and see if we can get another more "standard" zip put up on IBM 
Publications Center.

It will take some time as I don't own that end of the process and it's been a 
"black box" for years.

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Db2 8.1 on z/OS 2.1

[Nathan Astle]

Hello

Is there anyone who has db2 8.1 running on zOS 2.1 ?

Any significant change in db2 performance with respect to the above ?

Nathan

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Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

[Tom Marchant]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:52:18 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote:

>So I googled "7zip open source" and found there was an open source 7zip 
>decoder.

You missed an important point. Many of us are running on corporate Windoze 
machines, 
and some are not able or permitted to install anything that is not approved by 
corporate.

>The take-away from the tempest is that familiarity with open source, finding 
>it, downloading it, building it, installing
>it, and even authoring it,
>is the salvation of the data center career in this era of the Twilight of the 
>Mainframe.

"Twilight of the mainframe"? 

That idea is no more true today than it was 30 years ago.

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Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

[Wayne Bickerdike]

By the time I got to Phoenix, she had left. (Apologies to Glenn Campbell).

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 5:55 AM, zMan  wrote:

> Hah, yes, I have...
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Wayne Bickerdike 
> wrote:
>
> > =
> > And you replied, "You need to get out more", I assume! Sheesh. It might
> > sound odd to the American ear, but it's not exactly that obscure.
> > ==
> > Have you been to Phoenix?
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:52 AM, zMan  wrote:
> >
> > > And you replied, "You need to get out more", I assume! Sheesh. It might
> > > sound odd to the American ear, but it's not exactly that obscure.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Wayne Bickerdike 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Spent some time in Phoenix teaching some REXX to colleagues. I'm an
> > > English
> > > > guy who moved to OZ in 1986 and had 5 years in California.
> > > >
> > > > After about an hour one of the guys put his hand up and said, "excuse
> > me,
> > > > what's ZED?"
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson <
> > > jesse1.robin...@sce.com
> > > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Don't know jickle, but don't confuse that with JECL, homophone of
> Mr.
> > > > > Hyde's evil twin.
> > > > >
> > > > > .
> > > > > .
> > > > > J.O.Skip Robinson
> > > > > Southern California Edison Company
> > > > > Electric Dragon Team Paddler
> > > > > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
> > > > > 323-715-0595 Mobile
> > > > > 626-302-7535 Office
> > > > > robin...@sce.com
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > -Original Message-
> > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@listserv.ua.
> EDU
> > ]
> > > On
> > > > > Behalf Of John McKown
> > > > > Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2016 9:51 AM
> > > > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > > > > Subject: (External):Re: How do you say "z/OS"?
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Bill Woodger <
> > bill.wood...@gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > NaN in computing is pronounced, right? My rule of thu... mouth I
> > > > > > suppose, is if it can be pronounced, pronounce it, otherwise say
> > the
> > > > > > letters but with no gaps in between. Emveeess vs Em-vee-ess.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1970's training video, American guy with hairstyle which made his
> > > head
> > > > > > look like a triangle, studiously pronouncing each individual
> > letter,
> > > > > > D-O-S J-C-L, with alternating minor waggles of his head at each
> > > > > > letter. Not enough time in the world for that.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ​Oh, and now we can discuss how to say JCL as a word? I have always
> > her
> > > > > Jickel (rhymes with Nickel)​.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In Portuguese, and allowing for my phonetics for the second,
> sicks
> > > and
> > > > > > dehbehdoish (CICS, DB2).
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to
> > climb
> > > it
> > > > > once. -- Karl Lehenbauer
> > > > > Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/
> > > > >
> > > > > Maranatha! <><
> > > > > John McKown
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 
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Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

[John Compton]

Back in 2000-2002, I worked in my native England, so it was 'zed oh ess'
Then I moved to an American-based company & it took me two years switch that to 
"zee oh ess".
A few years after that, I moved back to a UK employer & thought "here we go 
again...".
These days I've compromised on 'zos'

John

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Don Poitras
Sent: 16 September 2016 17:32
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

In article <35f7ced8-7f18-43dd-995b-170e28d2a...@googlegroups.com> you wrote:
> On Thursday, June 21, 2001 at 2:00:29 PM UTC-4, Mike Martin wrote:
> > Is it.. zoss?
> > 
> > Is it.. zee?
> > 
> > Is it zee...oh...esss?
> > 
> > Something else?
> > 
> > Sorry if this has already been beat to death, but I am just curious how 
> > everyone is saying it...

> Hi, I called IBM today from their z/OS website. The IBM agent said 
> "zed oh ess" or zed OS, or z/OS. The final believable word. ...:-)

Poor Mike has been waiting 15 years for this answer. :)

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Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 Tectia 6.4?

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

Reposting after some RTFM about Tectia and ssh-certview ;-)

That is an interesting product, not too bad. (www.ssh.com)

Roach, Dennis wrote:

>>We need to verify that our certificates are not about to expire. I tried 
>>ssh-certview and get the following messages:
>>1.   ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub: Failed to open `.ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub': 
>>Character set conversions not initialized: cannot convert from 'IBM-1047' to 
>>'ISO8859-1'.
>>2.   ssh-certview: Failed to autodetect the object type.
>>3.   Trying to decode the public key file - failed.
>>Anyone have an idea?

Can you perhaps post just the first two or three lines of that file? Perhaps 
the encoding scheme is not correct or you need some parameter to correctly read 
 that file.

You can place that file in a dataset and then try out RACF to check that file's 
content.

RACDCERT CHECKCERT()

Alternatively, can you contact the vendor about this?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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AW: BPXAS sysout class

[Peter Hunkeler]

>Is there any way for me to get a bit bucket sysout class for BPXAS?  My
STCCLASS parm in JES2 is set to a regular output class and it looks like
BPXAS uses that.  I need something that will definitely work, since
change BPXAS can put you in the pain cave.




I just stumbled over this; has it been solved? Could not see anything in 
IBM-Main's archives.


You might convert the BPXAS procedure to a started job by adding a JOB 
statement to it. On the Job statement you can then code MSGCLASS=. Something 
like


//BPXAS  JOB  MSGCLASS=X,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)
//BPXAS EXEC PGM=IEFIIC,REGION=0M,PARM=(,,,BPXPRJRW'


Warning: I have not tested this (dont' have access to a system where I could).


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Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 Tectia 6.4?

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

Roach, Dennis wrote:

>We need to verify that our certificates are not about to expire. I tried 
>ssh-certview and get the following messages:
>1.   ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub: Failed to open `.ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub': 
>Character set conversions not initialized: cannot convert from 'IBM-1047' to 
>'ISO8859-1'.
>2.   ssh-certview: Failed to autodetect the object type.
>3.   Trying to decode the public key file - failed.
>Anyone have an idea?

A$$uming your certs are in RACF, you could try out J.O. Skip Robinson's 
excellent suggestion. (RACDCERT CERTAUTH or
RACDCERT SITE or RACDCERT ID(user-id) )

From z/OS v2.1, there is a Health Check where you can see all Certificates soon 
to expire in 60 days. 

If there are any such certs, you will see IRRH276E.

Sorry, but I am for now not familiar with ssh-certview. Something for me to 
RTFM about... ;-)

PS: What is 'Tectia 6.4'?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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