Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-11 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/11/2006 1:51:16 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >"copy is immediately available before the physical tracks are copied". I can tell you how the IBM ESS (aka 2105) FlashCopy does it. At 03:00:00:00 you execute a TSO command (or use some other means

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-11 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:06:49 -0500, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ed, let me have Scotty beam you up and explain it... > >Sorry, Scottie is not available (actually he's dead) so let me try again. Right So he cannot destroy the source copies after one second yeah .. it's weekend Bruno

Re: discrete profiles for tape protection.

2006-03-11 Thread Robert S. Hansel (RSH)
Mike, Your comments about running without TAPEVOL and/or TVTOC raises the following issue. It is my understanding that with RMM the only way to protect against unauthorized access to a tape dataset by taking inappropriate advantage of tape label containing just the last 17 characters of the dsname

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-11 Thread Bruce Black
Call me amazed... but not long ago on here.. this was instantaneous.. now its some amount of time.. Did there just happen to by a hole in the space time continuum (and only for certain people?). Ed, let me have Scotty beam you up and explain it... Sorry, Scottie is not available (actually he's

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-11 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>I understand Ed because like him i am also running a shop ,and can't rely on such theory Ed is NOT running a shop! Ed is retired. Unfortunately, technology has moved since. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! --

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-11 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 14:13:23 -0600, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I would not want to be responsible to management if a disaster struck >after you initiated the "snap short" Its just like any other backup >"procedure" it has to fully complete before you have a real copy. > Ed and Ron you g

IBM M/F are faster

2006-03-11 Thread Ed Gould
This story was taken from www.inq7.net http://news.inq7.net/infotech/index.php?index=1&story_id=69069 Mainframe replacement faster than before -- IBM First posted 00:25am (Mla time) Mar 12, 2006 By Alexander Villafania INQ7.net Mainframes, once touted as the last IT equipment to be hauled ou

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-11 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 11, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote: Ed, Ed. Ed. what are you amazed about exactly? The instant snap is still an instant snap - nothing in this thread changes that. In fact it reinforces the concept with the statement "copy is immediately available before the physical t

Re: DB2 for z/OS encryption

2006-03-11 Thread James J Catchpole
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:30:45 -0600, Harry Riedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Due to SOX and VISA security regulations, my company needs to encrypt credit >card sales data being sored in DB2 tables. We have tried both IBM's >Encryption for IMS & DB2 product along with ASPG's Megacryption. Can anyon

Re: IXFP No Longer Supported

2006-03-11 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Ed, Ed. Ed. what are you amazed about exactly? The instant snap is still an instant snap - nothing in this thread changes that. In fact it reinforces the concept with the statement "copy is immediately available before the physical tracks are copied". You really don't understand this stuff, do

Re: HDS backup process

2006-03-11 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:34:12 +0100, John (IBM-MAIN) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--- snip --- >Does the DUMPCOND(SET) parameter of ICKDSF REFORMAT get you anything? >I've never tried it with a suspended Duplex secondary. Well thanks I don't know i did not even know it in ickdsf ( i know the one i

Re: Hacking Again

2006-03-11 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Timothy Sipples wrote: The State of New Hampshire had a system with malware installed -- a single Microsoft Windows server -- that was processing payments for government agencies, including motor vehicles. Those payment records were compromised. This news broke a couple weeks ago. According

Re: HDS backup process

2006-03-11 Thread John (IBM-MAIN)
--- snip --- The fact that ickdsf cannot clip the volser is because the hardware knows that this secondary disk is part of a suspended pair . When you suspend , ickdsf will tell you ICK30111I DEVICE SPECIFIED IS THE SECONDARY OF A DUPLEX OR PPRC PAIR ICK31024I UNABLE TO OPEN VOLUME. ICK30003I FUNCT

Re: DB2 for z/OS encryption

2006-03-11 Thread Steve Horein
I was looking through this thread, and I never saw any suggestion of using an external box! There was a RYO solution with fieldproc, using native DB2 v8 (wow, very nice!), and the solution I stated using Protegrity with views/triggers/UDFs. I perhaps was unclear when I spoke about DTP - DTP allows

Re: 64-bit question

2006-03-11 Thread Joel C. Ewing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's what had me a bit confused. When I changed the storage distribution to be only central with no expanded, the new config didn't take affect until I did a DEACTIVATE, then an ACTIVATE on the LOAD profile. I'm still trying to find out whether ACTIVATE retains the pr

JES2 Exit for 1.7

2006-03-11 Thread Dave Barrows
I am looking for suggestions on how to upgrade a JES2 exit for z/OS 1.7. The exit is currently exit 20 on z/OS 1.4. It validates the first accounting field on the job card. Sounds like exit 3? The person that wrote it said that he started out with exit 3 but moved it to 20 because it worked be

Re: DB2 for z/OS encryption

2006-03-11 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:15:05 -0700, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >processing), the data would flow unencrypted over the wire to/from the box >anyway (and that doesn't seem to pass muster with the PCI auditors I've >heard about), and you've just created a really tough DR and key reco