Re: Masking SMF data internally

[Binyamin Dissen]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 09:58:29 +0400 Jake Anderson 
wrote:

:>We have a requirement of sharing our SMF data to vendor for a sizing
:>operation of our hardware connected to our mainframe

:>Our organization has a policy of masking the critical values before sharing
:>it. I see SMF datasets are are editable from ISPF.

:>Is there a way or someone has undergone this exercise of masking the
:>confidential values inside SMF output Dataset?

First identify which types and subtypes are required. That will reduce the job
and may make it trivial.

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Re: Masking SMF data internally

[ITschak Mugzach]

It is a span record format probably. Rexx can read it,  it you need to be
more careful by identifying text fields. I have done that with dump
masking. Maybe I still have the code

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בתאריך יום א׳, 21 בינו׳ 2024 ב-8:43 מאת Jake Anderson <
justmainfra...@gmail.com>:

> I am not even able to browse
>
> It says 'Invalid record length'. I tried setting the block size and LRECL
> but by default it takes as
>
> Record length': 32767
> Block size : 32760
>
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 10:26 AM ITschak Mugzach  wrote:
>
> > Are these files machine or human readable? As you can edit them, I
> believe
> > they are human readable and no Hex data inside. If so, write a rexx to
> > translate everything a-z to blanks and write back.
> >
> > ITschak
> >
> > *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere
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> zLinux
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > בתאריך יום א׳, 21 בינו׳ 2024 ב-7:59 מאת Jake Anderson <
> > justmainfra...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > We have a requirement of sharing our SMF data to vendor for a sizing
> > > operation of our hardware connected to our mainframe
> > >
> > >
> > > Our organization has a policy of masking the critical values before
> > sharing
> > > it. I see SMF datasets are are editable from ISPF.
> > >
> > > Is there a way or someone has undergone this exercise of masking the
> > > confidential values inside SMF output Dataset?
> > >
> > > Please advise
> > >
> > > Jake
> > >
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Re: Masking SMF data internally

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 09:58:29 +0400, Jake Anderson wrote:

>Hello
>
>We have a requirement of sharing our SMF data to vendor for a sizing
>operation of our hardware connected to our mainframe
>
>
>Our organization has a policy of masking the critical values before sharing
>it. I see SMF datasets are are editable from ISPF.
>
>Is there a way or someone has undergone this exercise of masking the
>confidential values inside SMF output Dataset?
>
The hard part of the task is recognizing the "critical values".


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Re: Masking SMF data internally

[Jake Anderson]

I am not even able to browse

It says 'Invalid record length'. I tried setting the block size and LRECL
but by default it takes as

Record length': 32767
Block size : 32760

On Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 10:26 AM ITschak Mugzach  wrote:

> Are these files machine or human readable? As you can edit them, I believe
> they are human readable and no Hex data inside. If so, write a rexx to
> translate everything a-z to blanks and write back.
>
> ITschak
>
> *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere
> Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux
> and IBM I **|  *
>
> *|* *Email**: i_mugz...@securiteam.co.il **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|*
> *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il  **|*
>
>
>
>
>
> בתאריך יום א׳, 21 בינו׳ 2024 ב-7:59 מאת Jake Anderson <
> justmainfra...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > We have a requirement of sharing our SMF data to vendor for a sizing
> > operation of our hardware connected to our mainframe
> >
> >
> > Our organization has a policy of masking the critical values before
> sharing
> > it. I see SMF datasets are are editable from ISPF.
> >
> > Is there a way or someone has undergone this exercise of masking the
> > confidential values inside SMF output Dataset?
> >
> > Please advise
> >
> > Jake
> >
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Re: Masking SMF data internally

[ITschak Mugzach]

Are these files machine or human readable? As you can edit them, I believe
they are human readable and no Hex data inside. If so, write a rexx to
translate everything a-z to blanks and write back.

ITschak

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בתאריך יום א׳, 21 בינו׳ 2024 ב-7:59 מאת Jake Anderson <
justmainfra...@gmail.com>:

> Hello
>
> We have a requirement of sharing our SMF data to vendor for a sizing
> operation of our hardware connected to our mainframe
>
>
> Our organization has a policy of masking the critical values before sharing
> it. I see SMF datasets are are editable from ISPF.
>
> Is there a way or someone has undergone this exercise of masking the
> confidential values inside SMF output Dataset?
>
> Please advise
>
> Jake
>
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Masking SMF data internally

[Jake Anderson]

Hello

We have a requirement of sharing our SMF data to vendor for a sizing
operation of our hardware connected to our mainframe


Our organization has a policy of masking the critical values before sharing
it. I see SMF datasets are are editable from ISPF.

Is there a way or someone has undergone this exercise of masking the
confidential values inside SMF output Dataset?

Please advise

Jake

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Re: Transmitting SMF records

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:14:58 -0500, Cheryl Watson wrote:

>I know that I’m late to this game, but we used to have a free tool to handle 
>this called ‘WWUNTERSE’, which has been used by hundreds of people. It is now 
>being made available by its original developer, Mario Bezzi, at this link - 
>https://www.ap4zlabs.com/free-tools. 
> 
What about 
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sets with
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on a direct
access storage device (DASD). For a VB or VBS data set, the largest logical 
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>==
>On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:24:59 +, Andrew N Wilt wrote:
>
>>   ... Apparently, they are able to decipher the RDW records resulting from 
>> uploading a RECFM=VBS as a RECFM=U. Unfortunately, at this time, GDKUTIL 
>> doesn't have the smarts to parse the bytestream as RDW+data as it is writing 
>> to the output data set. That is a current Request For Enhancement, though.

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