If you have a web site and you're not using Google Analytics, I suggest you
evaluate it.
My sites are collecting data now. Factiod - 63 people downloaded one or more
of the MIPS
tables on 21 June 2006 UTC.
I wouldn't have expected anything like so many. I think I might make the
disclaimer
Crispin,
Run the following command to see what profile is protecting creation of
aliases and who has access to it.
RLIST FACILITY STGADMIN.IGG.DEFDEL.UALIAS ALL
This may answer your question.
Regards, Bob
Robert
Sorry to waste people's time - but I can't think how to fix this one any other
way.
I recently got a mailing list bounce from J B Hunt - probable junk mail. It
wasn't, so I
emailed the address given on the bounce message - and for my trouble got a 550
disallowed on
the email. Trivial so far
All,
in a multithreaded C-Application I need to run a COBOL-Prog. I use the
C-Function fetch() to get an Entry-Point and jump into it. This works
fine for the first time, but when I fetch the module again and jump into
it I get an ABEND U4091 Reason 0C. This also happens in a single
threaded
Looking for some formal IBM training in setting up a TLS/SSL certificate
based solution. The ideal course would include the whole banana from
mechanics to management.
A troll through IBM TEACH cam up empty, most likely due to poor search
arguments.
Hal,
I was looking for the some training
I am running the MQ CICS DPL Bridge on a mainframe. This bridge connects my
MQSeries 5.3.1 mainframe queue manager to a CICS 2.3 region. The bridge
uses a CICS transaction CKBR to read the messages from the Bridge queue and
place them into CICS for processing.
Sometimes I get queueing
I think it's much easier to look the ordering checklists to see
whether products they want are still orderable than to go through
all the announcements. They're available at:
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/swinfo/os390.html
On the ServerPac and CBPDO checklists, you'll
Michael Knigge wrote:
All,
in a multithreaded C-Application I need to run a COBOL-Prog. I use the
C-Function fetch() to get an Entry-Point and jump into it. This works
fine for the first time, but when I fetch the module again and jump into
it I get an ABEND U4091 Reason 0C. This also
Fred,
I have noticed the same issue, and it appears that SDSF is executing
code that runs with the same dispatching priority as the address space
it is querying.
In a CPU-constrained environment, I can re-create this by browsing a
low-priority running job's output, and the response is poor. I
There once was a person named Rishi,
Who posted a message most fishy.
For pluralizing JCL,
He should rot in hell,
Though, now commonplace, it's cliche.
Real mainframers don't pluralize JCL!
_
Express yourself instantly with MSN
The way I've always understood this is that SDSF schedules an SRB into the
target address space to get spool data in buffers.
The difference between S (SDSF Browse) and the SB/SE (ISPF
Browse/Edit) line commands is that with the latter commands, all the data
is probably fetched up front. With
My client has instructed me to modify some modules so that they run
above the line. This was a no brainer until I ran across a call to
module BQKDPRS in several of the modules. This is an old (1970's)
hashing routine for encrypting and decrypting a pin
number. Naturally the client only has
Odds are that someone that has you, and the recipient, in their e-mail
list has a virus on their computer. I get these occasionally for
twomenandatruck, out of Houston. The mail isn't in response to one of
your old e-mails, it is someone spuffing(?) your e-mail address
continuing to send the
In a message dated 6/22/2006 9:39:40 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Odds are that someone that has you, and the recipient, in their e-mail
list has a virus on their computer. I get these occasionally for
I forwarded it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL
Jay Maynard wrote:
to promote Progress of Science and useful Arts,
by securing for limited Times to Authors and
Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective
Writings and Discoveries
The *objective* was to foster innovation, NOT to reward people.
Innovation is
Ed Finnell wrote:
I forwarded it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
didn't bounce, but haven't heard anything back either.
NO! Don't reply to them. Now you probably signalled them that your mail
address is live and active.
These 'bouncing' mails are actually bait to confirm
will ... be enough to satisfy my client's requirements?
Hard to say from this distance.
I can tell you that
- almost no non-trivial older program ever becomes purely 31-bit. Your
client may be happy if your result is mostly 31-bit or as 31-bit as
reasonably possible.
- I think it's worth a
NOTE: X-posted to MVS-OE and IBM-MAIN
Hi, All,
Trying to setup z/OS 1.5 FTP client-side to use SSL/TLS but can't seem
to find where/how to specify keyring database password (this is on the
sandbox system; when/if we go live we'll use RACF keyring). This is
the message that Trace writes:
just a thought
1. there are numerous callable routines in icsf to (de)encrypt/hash
anything, esp pin's, ie the finical services suite. even smp is into icsf
hashing and w/ 1.7 you don't even need to start up icsf, i've heard
2. leave the hash routine as a separate callable load module in 24b
Charles Mills wrote:
There is nothing about an older program that necessarily means it will
not
run AMODE 31.
A common practice used by older programs is using LA to clear the how
order byte, which is a problem if it's a 31-bit address.
Depending on what the purpose of the clear is. Sometimes it was done just to
make sure a count was not negative, or to get rid of an x'80' call list
delimiter, in which case you're okay. My point is that sure, there a
thousand reasons why it might not work, but no inherent reason not to give
it a
it's in ftpdata, dbase is KEYRING /u/xx/tn32v1r2.kdb
and the password is in the stash file /u/xx/tn32v1r2.sth
Jack Kelly
LA Systems @ US Courts
x 202-502-2390
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jack Kelly
it's in ftpdata, dbase is KEYRING /u/xx/tn32v1r2.kdb
and the password is in the stash file /u/xx/tn32v1r2.sth
Duh
Thanks,
-jc-
I'm looking for anyone's pgms (SAS, ASSEM, REXX, Whatever) to can format
the USS information on the SMF30, 42, 92 records before I reinvent the
wheel. We have MXG but haven't located anyting canned thus far.
Thanks in Advance
J R,
This is a language problem. Unfortunately it is quite common in French, for
example, to translate from a French plural word to what should be, in
English, a collective noun which is only ever used in the singular. Thus,
for example, logiciels should translate to software but francophones
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You might take a look at the HASHWF package on the IBM z/VM Downloads website:
HASHWF 2000-01-12 A General HASH function (S/370 and other systems)
The hashing code is supplied in Assembler source code. I do not know if it is
really capable of running above the line, but the Rexx function
If you can use a 'new fangled' program object instead of a load module as
your executable, then RMODE(SPLIT) provides a nice resolution of such
problems as you describe: AMODE(24) for a few intractable, difficult to
convert routines and RMODE(31) for all the rest.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA
Brian Peterson wrote:
The way I've always understood this is that SDSF schedules an SRB into the
target address space to get spool data in buffers.
Not in any supported release. (Specifically, not since z/OS 1.2.)
The difference between S (SDSF Browse) and the SB/SE (ISPF
Browse/Edit)
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gray, Larry - Larry A
If you are using certificates under ACF2 or RACF, that will
not be a file. In ACF2 speak, it is the Ringname. In RACF
it is the RING.
That will come later. Right now I have a connection
One thing to consider, talk to your network support to make sure they are not
blocking anything, ports/IP addresses etc..
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/22/2006 12:55 PM
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gray, Larry - Larry A
If you are using certificates
AMODE(24) in the below should read RMODE(24), right?
Also, some routines won't run AMODE(31), even if they are RMODE(24).
Programs with tables with words of the format X'flags',AL3(data) for
example, if they load the word into a register and then use the contents of
the register as an address.
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:35:29 +0200, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a language problem. Unfortunately it is quite common in French, for
example, to translate from a French plural word to what should be, in
English, a collective noun which is only ever used in the singular. Thus,
for
NOTICE:
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confidential, privileged and otherwise protected from improper or erroneous
disclosure. If you are not the sender's intended recipient, you are not
authorized to intercept, read, print, retain, copy, forward, or
Yes, I'm familiar with the translation problem;
I've come to terms with that.
What bothers me more are the PFCSK types
and the *IX émigrés who think of a job as a JCL
and, therefore, several jobs as JCLs.
In the OP's limerick, he referred to writing jcls
which really goes against the grain.
OK. What is spear phishing? I've never heard that term before.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
- Original Message -
From: Elardus Engelbrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
These 'bouncing' mails are actually bait to confirm e-mail addresses to be
used
You shouldn't have to explainYou are speaking a foreign language.
Not many Americans could even begin to translate into a language other
than English. It always amazes me how so many Europeans can speak so
many different languages.
(rien, rien, rien)
Jon L. Veilleux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(860)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richard Pinion
One thing to consider, talk to your network support to make
sure they are not blocking anything, ports/IP addresses etc..
Done.
-jc-
We are z/OS V1R4 and currently configuring V1R7. What is a SMCS. I am
sure it is a console, but what is the difference between a MCS and a
SMCS? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gray, Larry - Larry A
You might want to put DEBUG SEC CMD SOC(3) FLO in the
SYSFTPD. When I was having issues, this is what support gave
me to help debug the problem.
Well, I guess this qualifies as progress:
Eric N. Bielefeld wrote:
OK. What is spear phishing? I've never heard that term before.
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/email/spear_phishing.mspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear_phishing
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1902896,00.asp
Mark Steely wrote:
We are z/OS V1R4 and currently configuring V1R7. What is a SMCS. I am
sure it is a console, but what is the difference between a MCS and a
SMCS? Any help would be appreciated.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2g360/1.2.1
says, SMCS consoles
[all I did was change the subject matter to be spelled correctly.]
Edward Jaffe wrote:
Mark Steely wrote:
We are z/OS V1R4 and currently configuring V1R7. What is a SMCS. I am
sure it is a console, but what is the difference between a MCS and a
SMCS? Any help would be appreciated.
Sorry, but I forgot to mention IBM's page with 427 results...
http://www.ibm.com/Search/?q=spear+phishingv=14lang=enamp;cc=usen=utf
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
South Africa
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Except that he said that he forwarded it...not replied to it...and
jbhunt.com is a valid company dns entry for the J. B. Hunt trucking firm.
Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Ed Finnell wrote:
I forwarded it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
didn't bounce, but haven't heard
Very well said indeed. And by the way, I dare any of the so-called-real
american sysprogs on this list to say in french, or any other language
besides english, what Bruno said so eloquently.
Liliane
At 01:21 PM 6/22/2006, Bruno Sugliani wrote:
Yeah
We french people ( some other foreigners
Lily said:
Very well said indeed. And by the way, I dare any of the so-called-real
american sysprogs on this list to say in french, or any other language
besides english, what Bruno said so eloquently.
Would it make you happy if we beat up Bruno in the school yard? Grow up
Lily.
I apologize if I offended any person for whom English
is not their first language. It was certainly not my
intention to do that.
My beef is with the nouveau-mainframers who insist
on using wintel and unix terminology in place of our
well-established vernacular.
From: Liliane L. Clever [EMAIL
In a message dated 6/22/2006 1:37:06 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Except that he said that he forwarded it...not replied to it...and
jbhunt.com is a valid company dns entry for the J. B. Hunt trucking firm.
Definitely a forward. Also, I believe, a subsidiary
J R wrote:
I apologize if I offended any person for whom English
is not their first language. It was certainly not my
intention to do that.
My beef is with the nouveau-mainframers who insist
on using wintel and unix terminology in place of our
well-established vernacular.
It's funny. More
think of a job as a JCL and, therefore, several jobs as JCLs
Our whole change process for promoting to production calls them JCL and
JCL's.
I found it irritating when I started here.
.
-teD
Marching to the beat of a different flute
Not many Americans could even begin to translate into a language other than
English
Sometimes not even then.
England, Canada, Australia, the USA.
Four countries separated by a common language!
.
-teD
Marching to the beat of a different flute
Not just the four countries. Or fourteen or forty. English now belongs to
everybody and is all the better for universal ownership.
If somebody could just fix the d*mn spelling. ;-)
.
.
JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:56:51 -0400, Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Jay Maynard wrote:
to promote Progress of Science and useful Arts,
by securing for limited Times to Authors and
Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective
Writings and Discoveries
The
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:22:40 -0400, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I apologize if I offended any person for whom English
is not their first language. It was certainly not my
intention to do that.
My beef is with the nouveau-mainframers who insist
on using wintel and unix terminology in place of
Except that he said that he forwarded it...not replied to it...and
jbhunt.com is a valid
company dns entry for the J. B. Hunt trucking firm.
Indeed. I _can_ - though some will find it hard to believe - spot devious
emails. This was
a genuine one. Having been on global networks since I
I've one CICS region that has two bridge tasks active, but the two CKBRs
do not process the same queue.
CICS is generally able to keep up with message arrivals. Queue depth
occasionally will spike to 20, but will return to 2 or less within 3-5
seconds. This at CKBP transaction completion
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani
[ snip ]
And i agree with Ed : In order to be understood by the new
tech guys on the next floor , we have to tell them that we
intend to reboot next year because we never do garbagge
collection
I consider the term 'memory leak' to be a great contribution to the
mainframe world. 'Storage creep' meanwhile is the guy who keeps bugging
you with phone calls trying to sell you second hand memory cards.
I was in a meeting the other day and said 'PTF'. One person was not a
techie. Somebody
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/22/2006
at 12:56 PM, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Sorry to waste people's time - but I can't think how to fix this one
any other way.
1. Complain to his provider.
2. Ask your provider to block that IP address.
I recently got a mailing list bounce from J B
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/21/2006
at 08:23 AM, Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
At the risk of getting flamed, I would like to respectfully disagree
with the apparent majority opinion on this list that all software
patents are bad, that the fact that software can be patented is a bad
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/21/2006
at 07:09 PM, Brian Westerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have found the SBC blocks port 25 as a deterrent to spam.
Do they supply an MSA that listens on port 587 and authenticates
connections?
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO
My beef is with the nouveau-mainframers who insist on using wintel and unix
terminology in
place of our well-established vernacular.
Giggle.
Wasn''t it IBM that stole the term dataset (which had previously -
1950s/1960s - meant a
modem) and used it as a synonym for file, much to many
How short memories are. Just a few decades. And UNIX is older than MVS, BTW.
I don't believe that!
Cite something.
MVS was out in 1974.
UNIX was out in '76.
'Course! Could be wrong!
But, the underpins of MVS were out much earlier than UNIX.
.
-teD
Marching to the beat of a different flute
Phil wrote on 23/06/2006 07:59:02 AM:
How short memories are. Just a few decades.
Indeed.
We *all* know what computers are don't we. Used to be flesh and bone ...
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7999.html
Shane ...
Thanks for the feedback.
Unfortunately, none of it explains what we are seeing, as the address
space whose SDSF output was being browsed was a CICS region. The region
was active and consuming CPU. CICS is started as a started task here and
by virtue of ISC communication with other regions, is
I would run one of the dis-assemblers on it and see how complicated
it is. It might be extremely easy or impossible.
Ed
On Jun 22, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
will ... be enough to satisfy my client's requirements?
Hard to say from this distance.
I can tell you that
- almost
Dears,
Would like to know if any of your shop running the 3390-27 . If yes, why do
you use it ? If no , why dont you use it ?
Any consideration of performance , system administration , s/w limitation ?
Thanks for your kinldy thoughts.
Sincerely,
Laurnece
No,
But they have finally un-blocked port 25 so things are working correctly
now. When I get some free time,I'll try to figure out where SMTP has port
25 set to be used and see if I can work out a zap to allow port 26 instead.
Brian
And i agree with Ed : In order to be understood by the new tech guys
on the next floor , we have to tell them that we intend to reboot
next year because we never do garbagge collection :-)) .
Bruno
The new tech guys have need of some of our words, ABEND is one that
springs to mind. The PC guys
Tsai Laurence wrote:
Would like to know if any of your shop running the 3390-27 . If yes,
why do you use it ? If no , why dont you use it ?
Any consideration of performance , system administration , s/w
limitation ?
If, by 3390-27, you mean 3390 volumes configured with approximately 32K
Would like to know if any of your shop running the 3390-27 .
Yes, we use it. Mod-27 is a fabrication - there is no actually device
type called 3390-27. The same is true for Mod-54. Most software will
report the device as a Mod-9. There shouldn't be performance problems as
it's using SCSI
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