Re: Check out Hackers hit major ATM network after US, Russian bank breaches: report - AOL Finance

[Jake Anderson]

Hi Ed

Out of ignorance

 how would RECONS helps here ?


On 12-Dec-2017 5:41 PM, "Edward Finnell" <
000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

Hackers hit major ATM network after US, Russian bank breaches: report - AOL
Finance
Don't we do RECONs anymore? I can remember staying up half the night
looking for 14 cents.

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zOS LPAR on Rental Basis for POC

[Peter]

Hello

Is there any company who provide zOS LPAR image on rental basis ? I am
looking for a zOS LPAR with ACF2 to perform a Proof of Concept(POC). So
looking for Pay as you use kind of service would help me.

Please advise me if there is any such vendors are available providing zOS
image with ACF2 on Rental(Pay as you use).

Regards
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Re: Possible Debug issue

[Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta)]

On this particular test that got all the storage error messages..region was 
set to 0M

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Of Peter Hunkeler
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 1:14 AM
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>Debug Tool and Fault Analyzer seem to take a huge amount of memory when 
>working with COBOL 5.  Try setting REGION=2000M. 


What release of z/OS managed to move the whole common area above the bar?
Seriously, 2000M will probably never be available in the private region. But if 
you want to see how much you need to be able to debug, within the maximum 
available, specify REGION=0M. 


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[Peter Hunkeler]

>Debug Tool and Fault Analyzer seem to take a huge amount of memory when 
>working with COBOL 5.  Try setting REGION=2000M.


What release of z/OS managed to move the whole common area above the bar?
Seriously, 2000M will probably never be available in the private region. But if 
you want to see how much you need to be able to debug, within the maximum 
available, specify REGION=0M.


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Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

[Anthony Google Babonas]

If you’re only talking about cloning 1 file, just LISTCAT it, read the listing, 
key up the parameters, wrap some JCL, run it. If lots of files are 
involved…various tools exist.

Not Rocket Surgery.

GMAIL, via the "Mail" app for Windows 10

From: Doug
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 6:40 PM
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Subject: Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

Advanced Catalog Management , DrD, Catalog Solutions are a few that can if you 
have them and the existing file is still Cataloged.
Best Regards,
Doug

.

On Dec 12, 2017, at 17:30, Jesse 1 Robinson  wrote:

If the goal to create a second VSAM file that mimics an existing one, the 
LIKE() parameter will be propagate most attributes. Values such as space or 
volume can be overridden. Those not overridden will be duplicated to the extent 
permitted by SMS and ACS routines. 

.
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Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:23 PM
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Subject: (External):Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

Yes, there are entries on www.cbttape.org and there are products.

Lizette


> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Victor Gil
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:48 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file
> 
> Is there an easy way to rebuild the DEFINE CLUSTER for IDCAMS for an 
> existing VSAM file?
> 
> TIA!
> -Victor-
> 


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Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

[Doug]

Advanced Catalog Management , DrD, Catalog Solutions are a few that can if you 
have them and the existing file is still Cataloged.
Best Regards,
Doug

.

On Dec 12, 2017, at 17:30, Jesse 1 Robinson  wrote:

If the goal to create a second VSAM file that mimics an existing one, the 
LIKE() parameter will be propagate most attributes. Values such as space or 
volume can be overridden. Those not overridden will be duplicated to the extent 
permitted by SMS and ACS routines. 

.
.
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Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:23 PM
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Subject: (External):Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

Yes, there are entries on www.cbttape.org and there are products.

Lizette


> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Victor Gil
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:48 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file
> 
> Is there an easy way to rebuild the DEFINE CLUSTER for IDCAMS for an 
> existing VSAM file?
> 
> TIA!
> -Victor-
> 


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Re: Possible Debug issue

[Frank Swarbrick]

Debug Tool and Fault Analyzer seem to take a huge amount of memory when working 
with COBOL 5.  Try setting REGION=2000M.

From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf of 
Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 8:44 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Possible Debug issue

Anybody ever get this when running a COBOL 5 program under Debug ??

13.34.47 JOB70977  +IEW2974T C008 REGION TOO SMALL TO ESTABLISH BINDER 
ENVIRONMENT.
 13.34.47 JOB70977  +IEW2974T C008 REGION TOO SMALL TO ESTABLISH BINDER 
ENVIRONMENT.
 13.34.47 JOB70977  +IEW2974T C008 REGION TOO SMALL TO ESTABLISH BINDER 
ENVIRONMENT.
 13.34.48 JOB70977  +IEW2971T C406 INSUFFICIENT ABOVE THE LINE STORAGE WAS 
AVAILABLE TO CONTINUE
 13.34.48 JOB70977  + BINDER PROCESSING.
 13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CEEMENU3 FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL
13.34.48 JOB70977  CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE CEEMENU3, RETURN 
CODE 24, REASON CODE 26080021, DDNAME *LNKLST*
13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL
13.34.48 JOB70977  CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG, RETURN 
CODE 24, REASON CODE 26080021, DDNAME *LNKLST*
13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL
13.34.48 JOB70977  CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG, RETURN 
CODE 24, REASON CODE 26080021, DDNAME *LNKLST*
13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL

Without Debug, no issues.
Never heard or seen these messages before.


Thanks,

Tom Savor
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Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

[Jesse 1 Robinson]

If the goal to create a second VSAM file that mimics an existing one, the 
LIKE() parameter will be propagate most attributes. Values such as space or 
volume can be overridden. Those not overridden will be duplicated to the extent 
permitted by SMS and ACS routines. 

.
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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:23 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: (External):Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

Yes, there are entries on www.cbttape.org and there are products.

Lizette


> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Victor Gil
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:48 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file
> 
> Is there an easy way to rebuild the DEFINE CLUSTER for IDCAMS for an 
> existing VSAM file?
> 
> TIA!
> -Victor-
> 


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Moving from VOLCAT.VGENERAL to VOLCAT.Vx

[Lizette Koehler]

List -

I have been asked to review this function as well as tap the collective to
provide an archive knowledge base of this process.


If a site currently has a volcat.vgeneral and they want to go to individual
vcats for tape (for example VOLCAT.V1 for 100,000 series tapes) 

What are the

1)  Steps need to make this change
   a)  LOADxx needs to be updated (if specified in there)
   b)  CASLLAxx needs to be updated (if specified in there)
   c) SYSCATxx needs to be update (if specified there)
   d) other??

2) How to move current volumes to new VOLCAT.Vx 
   a) What needs to be done first?
   b) How to move the tapes from the vgeneral to the specific

And my favorite question
  What are the pros/cons/gottchas

Can I have the volcat.vgeneral still with data and slowly move the volumes over.
Or does the system move them when it sees a new volcat.vgeneral?

Probably more questions to com.



Lizette Koehler
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Re: IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

[Jesse 1 Robinson]

I've been getting this error for some time, mostly with Chrome. I get list of 
alerts in ASAP. Somewhere along the line in bouncing from one to the next, or 
in returning to the list to delete them, I get this error. Today even IE was 
failing. ;-(

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Of Tom Conley
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 12:34 PM
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Subject: (External):Re: IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

On 12/12/2017 3:05 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote:
> On 2017-12-12 14:27, Tom Conley wrote:
>> and to use IFE as the browser
> 
> I'm not familiar with a browser called "IFE". Is that a reference to 
> Internet [expletive deleted] Exploder?
> 

Gord,

You know me too well, my friend ;-)

Tom


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Re: IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

[ste...@copper.net]

Perhaps IBM is finally going to find and fix where they produce a brownie 
instead of a cookie?

Yep, every so often their web server would over-fill a cookie and turn it into 
a brownie instead. Somehow it would get an excessively long text string in it, 
and when the browser was asked for that cookie the server would get sick-up and 
barf. And nothing will work on that system until you get rid of that brownie, 
or cow-pie as it has now become.

And the friendly IBM internal help desk personnel would tell you to clear your 
cache and cookies and that would solve the problem. Getting them to open a 
ticket to get to the root cause, in my experience, was a waste of time.

So I learned to go in and delete all "IBM" cookies. This kept me from spending 
the next 4-8 hours recovering what I had been working on. See, sometimes when 
you are doing tests of systems, you need them to have their cookies. And so 
when you do the nuke option, you get to start your tests all over again. Or, 
you weren't testing, you were working on something and now that particular 
system/application was using your browser as an interface and it has just lost 
its mind because of the nuke option.

I tend to tell help desk people that they need to go to the CEO of their 
company and have that person do the nuke option and then let me know if they 
still have a job.

I wonder when, in the non-mainframe world, IBM will see that RAS is important 
to their business.

Regards,
Steve Thompson


--- pinnc...@rochester.rr.com wrote:

From: Tom Conley 
To:   IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [IBM-MAIN] IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:27:26 -0500

> wrote:
>>
>> I manage to get one search in the keep failing with
>>
>> Error 500: 
>> com.ibm.websphere.servlet.session.UnauthorizedSessionRequestException: 
>> SESN0008E: A user authenticated as 
>> user:g03exldrcl003.ahe.boulder.ibm.com:636/IBMUniqueIdentifier=2037pj,cn=people,c=us,l=world
>>  has attempted to access a session owned by 
>> user:g03exldrcl003.ahe.boulder.ibm.com:636/IBMuniqueIdentifier=2037PJ,cn=people,c=US,l=world.
>>
>> Have to clear browser (Chrome) history and login again to get a second 
>> search done.  Tried IE but get immediate ERROR 500.
>>
>>

Ken,

I'm getting the same error, only instead of the mismatch on c=us, c=US, 
my mismatch is cn=People, cn=people.  IBMLink Helpless Desk says that 
IBMLink is under construction, and to use IFE as the browser in the 
meantime.  This is becoming a serious PITA for me.  I get this error 
every second time I use SIS on a different APAR, so clear cache, logon 
again, 2nd search crash, clear cache, logon, lather, rinse, repeat. 
Must be nice to work on a system where if only a few people are 
impacted, you can ignore the problem and tell them to use a POS browser 
instead.  I'll have to try that next time, see how far I get before I 
get fired for incompetence.

Regards,
Tom Conley

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Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

[Lizette Koehler]

Yes, there are entries on www.cbttape.org and there are products.

Lizette


> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Victor Gil
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 1:48 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file
> 
> Is there an easy way to rebuild the DEFINE CLUSTER for IDCAMS for an existing
> VSAM file?
> 
> TIA!
> -Victor-
> 

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Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

[Feller, Paul]

There was some REXX code from the CBT world, was under file 493 at one time, 
that would IDCAMS create DELETE/DEFINE control cards from a listcat report.  I 
have used it in the past.

Thanks..

Paul Feller
AGT Mainframe Technical Support

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Of Victor Gil
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 14:48
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Subject: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

Is there an easy way to rebuild the DEFINE CLUSTER for IDCAMS for an existing 
VSAM file?

TIA!
-Victor- 

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Re: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file

[Carmen Vitullo]

is the cluster still available? 
checking the define_cluster, you can use the MODEL(entryname[ catname]) 
parameter, I don't have any good examples, but if the cluster is there this may 
help. another thought, fileaid? or file manager I believe has an option to view 
the cluster and rebuild the define, or show you how it was defined originally. 



Carmen Vitullo 

- Original Message -

From: "Victor Gil"  
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 2:48:22 PM 
Subject: How to recreate DEFINE CLUSTER for a given VSAM file 

Is there an easy way to rebuild the DEFINE CLUSTER for IDCAMS for an existing 
VSAM file? 

TIA! 
-Victor- 

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[Victor Gil]

Is there an easy way to rebuild the DEFINE CLUSTER for IDCAMS for an existing 
VSAM file?

TIA!
-Victor-

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Re: IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

[Tom Conley]

On 12/12/2017 3:05 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote:

On 2017-12-12 14:27, Tom Conley wrote:

and to use IFE as the browser


I'm not familiar with a browser called "IFE". Is that a reference to 
Internet [expletive deleted] Exploder?




Gord,

You know me too well, my friend ;-)

Tom

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Re: IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

[Edward Finnell]

Guess the jargoneese would be 'Iffy'.


In a message dated 12/12/2017 2:09:13 PM Central Standard Time, 
gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com writes:

 
I'm not familiar with a browser called "IFE". Is that a reference to 

Internet [expletive deleted] Exploder?

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Re: IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

[Gord Tomlin]

On 2017-12-12 14:27, Tom Conley wrote:

and to use IFE as the browser


I'm not familiar with a browser called "IFE". Is that a reference to 
Internet [expletive deleted] Exploder?


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Re: IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

[Jousma, David]

I get the same errors on Chrome and IE.   A real PITA.   Can't believe they 
couldn’t get the case right on some of this stuff.

_
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> wrote:
>>
>> I manage to get one search in the keep failing with
>>
>> Error 500: 
>> com.ibm.websphere.servlet.session.UnauthorizedSessionRequestException: 
>> SESN0008E: A user authenticated as 
>> user:g03exldrcl003.ahe.boulder.ibm.com:636/IBMUniqueIdentifier=2037pj,cn=people,c=us,l=world
>>  has attempted to access a session owned by 
>> user:g03exldrcl003.ahe.boulder.ibm.com:636/IBMuniqueIdentifier=2037PJ,cn=people,c=US,l=world.
>>
>> Have to clear browser (Chrome) history and login again to get a second 
>> search done.  Tried IE but get immediate ERROR 500.
>>
>>

Ken,

I'm getting the same error, only instead of the mismatch on c=us, c=US, my 
mismatch is cn=People, cn=people.  IBMLink Helpless Desk says that IBMLink is 
under construction, and to use IFE as the browser in the meantime.  This is 
becoming a serious PITA for me.  I get this error every second time I use SIS 
on a different APAR, so clear cache, logon again, 2nd search crash, clear 
cache, logon, lather, rinse, repeat.
Must be nice to work on a system where if only a few people are impacted, you 
can ignore the problem and tell them to use a POS browser instead.  I'll have 
to try that next time, see how far I get before I get fired for incompetence.

Regards,
Tom Conley

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I had better luck with Chrome and usually later in the day I was able to stay 
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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Tom Conley
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 2:27 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [IBM-MAIN] IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

> wrote:
>>
>> I manage to get one search in the keep failing with
>>
>> Error 500: 
>> com.ibm.websphere.servlet.session.UnauthorizedSessionRequestException: 
>> SESN0008E: A user authenticated as 
>> user:g03exldrcl003.ahe.boulder.ibm.com:636/IBMUniqueIdentifier=2037pj,cn=people,c=us,l=world
>>  has attempted to access a session owned by 
>> user:g03exldrcl003.ahe.boulder.ibm.com:636/IBMuniqueIdentifier=2037PJ,cn=people,c=US,l=world.
>>
>> Have to clear browser (Chrome) history and login again to get a second 
>> search done.  Tried IE but get immediate ERROR 500.
>>
>>

Ken,

I'm getting the same error, only instead of the mismatch on c=us, c=US, my 
mismatch is cn=People, cn=people.  IBMLink Helpless Desk says that IBMLink is 
under construction, and to use IFE as the browser in the meantime.  This is 
becoming a serious PITA for me.  I get this error every second time I use SIS 
on a different APAR, so clear cache, logon again, 2nd search crash, clear 
cache, logon, lather, rinse, repeat.
Must be nice to work on a system where if only a few people are impacted, you 
can ignore the problem and tell them to use a POS browser instead.  I'll have 
to try that next time, see how far I get before I get fired for incompetence.

Regards,
Tom Conley

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IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

[Tom Conley]

wrote:


I manage to get one search in the keep failing with

Error 500: 
com.ibm.websphere.servlet.session.UnauthorizedSessionRequestException: 
SESN0008E: A user authenticated as 
user:g03exldrcl003.ahe.boulder.ibm.com:636/IBMUniqueIdentifier=2037pj,cn=people,c=us,l=world
 has attempted to access a session owned by 
user:g03exldrcl003.ahe.boulder.ibm.com:636/IBMuniqueIdentifier=2037PJ,cn=people,c=US,l=world.

Have to clear browser (Chrome) history and login again to get a second search 
done.  Tried IE but get immediate ERROR 500.




Ken,

I'm getting the same error, only instead of the mismatch on c=us, c=US, 
my mismatch is cn=People, cn=people.  IBMLink Helpless Desk says that 
IBMLink is under construction, and to use IFE as the browser in the 
meantime.  This is becoming a serious PITA for me.  I get this error 
every second time I use SIS on a different APAR, so clear cache, logon 
again, 2nd search crash, clear cache, logon, lather, rinse, repeat. 
Must be nice to work on a system where if only a few people are 
impacted, you can ignore the problem and tell them to use a POS browser 
instead.  I'll have to try that next time, see how far I get before I 
get fired for incompetence.


Regards,
Tom Conley

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Re: Check out Hackers hit major ATM network after US, Russian bank breaches: report - AOL Finance

[Edward Finnell]

Don't know what's going on. Went back and looked at SENT mail and the link is 
active. Something got stripped when it went to the list. New browser, maybe I 
don't have the settings configured properly.
 
https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2017/12/11/bank-breach-us-russia/23303753/
 
In a message dated 12/12/2017 8:53:24 AM Central Standard Time, 
charl...@mcn.org writes:

 
A link makes it easier to check out.

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Re: Strange application (or A.P.A) behaviour.

[Massimo Biancucci]

Thanks for your support.

One of the programs does heavy use of FP variables (mortgage calculation).

Regards.
Massimo


2017-11-28 23:23 GMT+01:00 Bernd Oppolzer :

> Ok, please ignore that below ...
> my assumption was based only on the remark done by the OP,
> that the module with the high CPU usage is used to manage
> dynamic calls.
>
> The other poster IMO showed the real reason for the high
> CPU usage; the names of the CSECTs make perfect sense with
> respect to floating point usage:
>
>  > IGZBXXMU  COBOL 2 Module 31.51 
> multiply
>
>  > IGZ@BCD   COBOL 2 Module 12.76 **
> something with BCD
>
>  > IGZXFPW   COBOL 2 Module 12.43 **
> FP ...
>
>  > FPVDFPCX  CSECT in IGZXLPKA   9.53 *
> FP ..
>
>  > IGZ@CVCOBOL 2 Module  6.17 ***
> convert ??
>
>  > IGZXPR2   COBOL 2 Module  5.40 ***
> print ?
>
>
> If the batch does a lot of computations and floating
> point is really needed, this high percentage of CPU
> in that part of the LE library is OK, maybe. Of course,
> there could be some potential for improvement.
>
> HTH,
> kind regards
>
> Bernd
>
>
>
>
> Am 28.11.2017 um 21:31 schrieb Bernd Oppolzer:
>
>> Very wild guess:
>>
>> I had a similar behaviour once in an IBM system component.
>> The problem was, that this component, trying to find out if
>> a peculiar module has been loaded already, sequentially scanned
>> the list of loaded modules (CDE/XTLST). This is no big problem,
>> if the number of modules in the CDE/XTLST is small. But in our case,
>> it was in the hundreds, and the search was done on every (dynamic)
>> call of the module, and it was called millions of times. So the CPU
>> went up in the component doing this sequential search.
>>
>> We found this problem by using STROBE to identify the code section
>> where the CPU hot spot was and by looking at the machine code there;
>> the control block scan was obvious. We could not convince IBM to change
>> this component, so we had to replace it by a complete different technique
>> (more details offline, if you want).
>>
>> You could at least make sure, that THIS IS NOT YOUR PROBLEM by
>> taking a dump of your batch job in this particular situation and looking
>> at the CDE queue.
>>
>> Don't know, if this helps :-)
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Bernd
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 28.11.2017 um 16:38 schrieb Massimo Biancucci:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> in a customer shop we use IBM APA to trace some cpu-bound applications in
>>> order to find out in which modules and statement applications use the
>>> most
>>> of the cpu.
>>>
>>> For a particular job APA shows a big "SYSTEM" cpu usage on IGZXLPKA
>>> module
>>> as you can see in the following data.
>>>
>>> Name  Description   Percent of CPU Time * 10.00%  .0.6%
>>>
>>>
>>> *1234567...
>>> SYSTEMSystem/OS Services   78.03
>>> **
>>>
 LERUNLIB  Language Environment   77.88

>>> **
>>>  Runtime
>>>
>>>> IGZXLPKA  COBOL 2 Module   77.88
>>> **
>>>  > IGZBXXMU  COBOL 2 Module 31.51 
>>>
>>>  > IGZ@BCD   COBOL 2 Module 12.76 **
>>>
>>>  > IGZXFPW   COBOL 2 Module 12.43 **
>>>
>>>  > FPVDFPCX  CSECT in IGZXLPKA   9.53 *
>>>
>>>  > IGZ@CVCOBOL 2 Module  6.17 ***
>>>
>>>  > IGZXPR2   COBOL 2 Module  5.40 ***
>>>
>>>  > IGZ@DSP   COBOL 2 Module  0.02
>>>
>>>  > IGZXFCAL  COBOL 2 Module  0.02
>>>
>>>  > IGZ@DCS2  COBOL 2 Module  0.01
>>>
>>>  > IGZXFCA4  COBOL 2 Module  0.00
>>>
>>> MVS   MVS System  0.11
 SVC   SVC Routines0.03
 DB2   DB2 Subsystem   0.00

>>>
>>>
>>> DB2SQLSQL Processing   12.13 **
>>>
>>> APPLCNApplication Code  9.70 *
>>>
>>> NOSYMBNo Module Name0.11
>>>
>>>
>>> In such a shop applications are Cobol (main V4 moving to V5) and this
>>> case
>>> is a DB2 batch applications. There're different programs involved
>>> dynamically called (to prevent questions, the whole shop is the same and
>>> only this job shows this behaviour). There's a mix between V4 and V5 in
>>> the
>>> call chain.
>>>
>>> I was not able to find out lots of infos about the IGZXLPKA module but
>>> it's
>>> manages dynamic call.
>>>
>>> I've tried with a different programs-chain (written to test the call up
>>> to
>>> 5 level of nesting) but nothing similar happened.
>>>
>>> Any hint ?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot in advance.
>>> Massimo
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Re: TRSMAIN

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:24:34 -0500, zMan wrote:

>OK, but that's not the intended use case for TRSMAIN, is it? So why risk
>breakage for folks using it as intended?
>Seems like you want a slightly different tool.
>(Yes, I'm being a hardass here!)
>
One use of TRSMAIN (AMATERSE?) often requested by IBM SR is submitting
supporting information with a problem report.  This is partly because Terse
format is relatively immune to the vagaries of FTP.

Once, for a UNIX problem, IBM pointed me to their instruction page which
required Terse.  So I made a tar of the UNIX files and Tersed that and left
IBM to deal with it.  They did; didn't even complain.

And many sites shun connecting the z to the Internet, so the path is:

z/OS -> some desktop -> testcase.IBM

(Sometimes one of the steps is sneakernet.)

>On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:58 PM, John McKown wrote:
>
>> ​My application is: z/OS -> Linux -> different z/OS . I can't go directly
>> from z/OS #1 to z/OS #2.

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Re: Possible Debug issue

[John Eells]

I have no experience with COBOL, but I would surmise that running under 
Debug requires additional programs to be loaded and that the specified 
REGION is too small to contain them in addition to the program or 
programs you are trying to run.


What do you have specified for REGION?  Is there some reason not to 
increase it?



Savor, Thomas , Alpharetta wrote:

Anybody ever get this when running a COBOL 5 program under Debug ??

13.34.47 JOB70977  +IEW2974T C008 REGION TOO SMALL TO ESTABLISH BINDER 
ENVIRONMENT.
  13.34.47 JOB70977  +IEW2974T C008 REGION TOO SMALL TO ESTABLISH BINDER 
ENVIRONMENT.
  13.34.47 JOB70977  +IEW2974T C008 REGION TOO SMALL TO ESTABLISH BINDER 
ENVIRONMENT.
  13.34.48 JOB70977  +IEW2971T C406 INSUFFICIENT ABOVE THE LINE STORAGE WAS 
AVAILABLE TO CONTINUE
  13.34.48 JOB70977  + BINDER PROCESSING.
  13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CEEMENU3 FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL
13.34.48 JOB70977  CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE CEEMENU3, RETURN 
CODE 24, REASON CODE 26080021, DDNAME *LNKLST*
13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL
13.34.48 JOB70977  CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG, RETURN 
CODE 24, REASON CODE 26080021, DDNAME *LNKLST*
13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL
13.34.48 JOB70977  CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG, RETURN 
CODE 24, REASON CODE 26080021, DDNAME *LNKLST*
13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL

Without Debug, no issues.
Never heard or seen these messages before.



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Possible Debug issue

[Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta)]

Anybody ever get this when running a COBOL 5 program under Debug ??

13.34.47 JOB70977  +IEW2974T C008 REGION TOO SMALL TO ESTABLISH BINDER 
ENVIRONMENT.
 13.34.47 JOB70977  +IEW2974T C008 REGION TOO SMALL TO ESTABLISH BINDER 
ENVIRONMENT.
 13.34.47 JOB70977  +IEW2974T C008 REGION TOO SMALL TO ESTABLISH BINDER 
ENVIRONMENT.
 13.34.48 JOB70977  +IEW2971T C406 INSUFFICIENT ABOVE THE LINE STORAGE WAS 
AVAILABLE TO CONTINUE
 13.34.48 JOB70977  + BINDER PROCESSING.
 13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CEEMENU3 FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL
13.34.48 JOB70977  CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE CEEMENU3, RETURN 
CODE 24, REASON CODE 26080021, DDNAME *LNKLST*
13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL
13.34.48 JOB70977  CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG, RETURN 
CODE 24, REASON CODE 26080021, DDNAME *LNKLST*
13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL
13.34.48 JOB70977  CSV031I LIBRARY ACCESS FAILED FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG, RETURN 
CODE 24, REASON CODE 26080021, DDNAME *LNKLST*
13.34.48 JOB70977  IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE CBCDEBUG FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- 
FAILED BECAUSE INSUFFICIENT STORAGE WAS AVAILABL

Without Debug, no issues.
Never heard or seen these messages before.


Thanks,

Tom Savor
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Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s) only?

[Farley, Peter x23353]

I can't say too much due to confidentiality restrictions, but the base problem 
is that I am starting with an existing sorted production file to generate input 
for a regression and performance test driver.  Randomizing the order of the 
test input more closely mimics real-world input order.

Your technique enabled me to easily randomize the input order, and regenerating 
the sequential 8-digit keys in the randomized record order was trivial using 
normal SORT facilities (SEQNUM), so thanks again.

Peter

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Subject: Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s) 
only?

I'm glad to hear that my suggestion was helpful.  Now for the real question 
nobody has yet asked, why?  What interesting problem are you trying to solve 
with these restrictions?  Knowing that may reveal more and better solutions.

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> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 5:52 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility 
> program(s) only?
> 
> Don, that would actually be easy to do and will work well, thank you.  
> Didn't occur to me at first but in hindsight it's quite obvious.
> 
> Peter
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Grinsell, Don
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 5:33 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility 
> program(s) only?
> 
> Can you generate two numbers?  For every sequential number 1-8000 
> generate a random number to use as a sort key.  Sort on the random key 
> and the sequential numbers should get jumbled up just fine.  Shouldn't 
> really matter if the random numbers repeat.  I can't say exactly how 
> you would actually do that with just the utility programs.  Regards.
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
> > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353
> > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 3:08 PM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > Subject: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility
> > program(s) only?
> >
> > Is it possible to do the following using only utility programs and 
> > control statements?  (z/OS Unix solutions also welcome)
> >
> > Task:  Generate 8-digit zoned-decimal numbers from 1 to some limit
> (e.g.,
> > 1 to 8000) in pseudo-random order with exactly one occurrence of 
> > each number in the range in the final output, with no gaps (no 
> > numbers not present at
> > all) and no repeats (no duplicate numbers).
> >
> > I know that IEBDG can generate random binary integers 4 bytes long, 
> > which certainly SORT can then post-process to convert the random 
> > binary values to zoned-decimal values, but it does not seem to be 
> > possible to confine the generated random numbers to a specific range.
> >
> > I do not see any "modulus" operation available in the SORT manual, 
> > so it apparently isn't possible to post-process the IEBDG numbers 
> > with SORT to convert each of the random numbers modulo the limit 
> > value.  I suppose division and truncation and subtraction may work, 
> > though I haven't figured out how yet.
> >
> > The other hard problem is to guarantee that there is exactly one 
> > occurrence of each number and that no numbers in the range are left out.
> >
> > This task is trivially possible with a fairly simple Rexx program of 
> > course, or with any other HLL programming or scripting language that 
> > you may choose to use that has a RANDOM function of some kind, but 
> > it does not seem to be possible using only "utility" programs and 
> > control statements as far as I can tell.
> >
> > Does anyone else have better ideas?  Are there z/OS Unix utility 
> > programs that can do the job of which I am not aware?
> >
> > If I already have a file of sequentially-numbered records, is there 
> > a way to "unsort" them into pseudo-random order?
> >
> > Peter
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Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s) only?

[Grinsell, Don]

I'm glad to hear that my suggestion was helpful.  Now for the real question 
nobody has yet asked, why?  What interesting problem are you trying to solve 
with these restrictions?  Knowing that may reveal more and better solutions.

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> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 5:52 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s)
> only?
> 
> Don, that would actually be easy to do and will work well, thank you.  Didn't
> occur to me at first but in hindsight it's quite obvious.
> 
> Peter
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Grinsell, Don
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 5:33 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s)
> only?
> 
> Can you generate two numbers?  For every sequential number 1-8000 generate a
> random number to use as a sort key.  Sort on the random key and the
> sequential numbers should get jumbled up just fine.  Shouldn't really matter
> if the random numbers repeat.  I can't say exactly how you would actually do
> that with just the utility programs.  Regards.
> 
> > -Original Message-
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> > On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353
> > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 3:08 PM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > Subject: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility
> > program(s) only?
> >
> > Is it possible to do the following using only utility programs and
> > control statements?  (z/OS Unix solutions also welcome)
> >
> > Task:  Generate 8-digit zoned-decimal numbers from 1 to some limit
> (e.g.,
> > 1 to 8000) in pseudo-random order with exactly one occurrence of each
> > number in the range in the final output, with no gaps (no numbers not
> > present at
> > all) and no repeats (no duplicate numbers).
> >
> > I know that IEBDG can generate random binary integers 4 bytes long,
> > which certainly SORT can then post-process to convert the random
> > binary values to zoned-decimal values, but it does not seem to be
> > possible to confine the generated random numbers to a specific range.
> >
> > I do not see any "modulus" operation available in the SORT manual, so
> > it apparently isn't possible to post-process the IEBDG numbers with
> > SORT to convert each of the random numbers modulo the limit value.  I
> > suppose division and truncation and subtraction may work, though I
> > haven't figured out how yet.
> >
> > The other hard problem is to guarantee that there is exactly one
> > occurrence of each number and that no numbers in the range are left out.
> >
> > This task is trivially possible with a fairly simple Rexx program of
> > course, or with any other HLL programming or scripting language that
> > you may choose to use that has a RANDOM function of some kind, but it
> > does not seem to be possible using only "utility" programs and control
> > statements as far as I can tell.
> >
> > Does anyone else have better ideas?  Are there z/OS Unix utility
> > programs that can do the job of which I am not aware?
> >
> > If I already have a file of sequentially-numbered records, is there a
> > way to "unsort" them into pseudo-random order?
> >
> > Peter
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Re: SOAP Calls

[James Maloy]

Take a look at the 'z/OS HTTP/HTTPS protocol enabler' portion of the 'z/OS 
client web enablement toolkit'.  We've just implemented our first production 
usage of it to allow a COBOL program running in a batch job to invoke a SOAP 
web service.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ieac100/ieac1-client-web-enablement.htm?view=kc

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Re: Check out Hackers hit major ATM network after US, Russian bank breaches: report - AOL Finance

[Charles Mills]

A link makes it easier to check out.

http://reut.rs/2AMZsp9 

Charles


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breaches: report - AOL Finance

Hackers hit major ATM network after US, Russian bank breaches: report - AOL 
Finance Don't we do RECONs anymore? I can remember staying up half the night 
looking for 14 cents.

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Re: SysRexx, MPF exit and debugging

[Dana Mitchell]

Well, no there isn't really a lot there... but with the flexibility of SYSREXX 
execs, it addresses our needs and thats why I wrote it.  

Tony sent me his fix and I'll be looking into updating it when I get the 
chance.  I'll also look into his idea of incorporating REXXOUTDSN for debugging 
purposes, I like that.

Dana 

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:56:23 -0600, Brian Westerman 
 wrote:

>Not much to it is there?
>
>Thanks for the link.
>
>Brian
>
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