Ed
There is indeed an apparent inconsistency with this remove the last three
lines rule that I seem to need to observe. I very often note - when
performing this necessary chore - that I find myself removing three or four
sets of this added information. Clearly, by whatever means these folk
Legolas Wood writes:
Thank you all for your really nice and descriptive answers.
One more question, Does IBM provides JDK for Zlinux machines?
Which other vendor do this?
Yes, IBM does offer Java for Linux on System z. You can download it here:
Frank Sabo writes:
I currently have an IBM7060 H75 processor running OS 390
2.10. We are currently going into our sixth year of a two
year phase out of the mainframe.
As you mentioned, that system has roughly 209 MIPS. It's a G5 class
processor. Physically it is pretty much equivalent to a
Encrypt everything, basically. That's anything sensitive flowing over a
network wire (even inside your data center), anything on tape, and
(usually) anything on disk.
Companies are dealing with compliance by turning encryption on (and beefing
up authorization and authentication). This tends to be
In addition to Hercules for emulation of MVS 3.8 on a PC, there is also the
z390 portable mianframe assembler and emulator open source Java J2SE tool.
You can download z390 from www.z390.org for installation on Windows XP or
Vista using InstallShield. There is also a file image download for
Bruce Hewson wrote:
Well Radoslaw,
As I said the original convention for disk was 1000 bytes = 1KByte.
No. There was no such convention. Possibly there was no convention at
all, although IMHO the most popular convention was IT k=1024, while
non-IT k=1000.
M$ did not comply with that
On 31 Jul 2007 03:33:03 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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Only memory (not disk) was specified in binary (1024)
convention.
Again no. And again, you miss other (non-disk, non-memory)
aspects like
tapes, networks, disk channels
First of all I would like to add my Amen to Bob's and Sam's comments.
In the past I have been involved in managing an online bulletin board
and it is a lot of work with very little recognition. For any
discussion group to be able to continue as long as this has it needs
good management. Thanks
On 30 Jul 2007 18:11:54 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Mason) wrote:
Scrolling to the end of a quoted post in order to remove
the list trailer is a handy reminder also to remove any
older quoted posts[1] which are not really needed and
Sounds great, looks like I must take a look at this. What API does the CICS
clone use - macro or command level ? Is there any COBOL compiler for z390 ?
As for VSAM support would you mind including LDS support as well ? It could
be used for a DB2 clone later.
Regards
Mohammad
On Tue, 31 Jul
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 07:51 -0500, Kelman, Tom wrote:
Gee, I post a simple question and it seems as if I started WW III.
Don't be so presumptuous ...
This list must be on (at least) WW XXXIX
Welcome to the vortex.
Shane ...
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I thought you might want to know that this is becoming a bone of contention
among SHARE members.
I am as frustrated as anyone with the deplorable availability of IBMLINK.
However, only the SHARE President may speak on behalf of SHARE. It is not
Hi.
I would like to see all dataset name allocated by Job or Asid or User
TSO from an operator console.
How can I do in a simple way, through a MVS command or other?
Bye
Mike
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I have never met 1000 and 1024 mix, like 1*1000*1024=1MB. Neither in M$
nor elsewhere. Do you know such case ?
Think SLEDs used it from day one. Barry Merrill points this out several
times in
from option 6, issue ISRFIND, or from any command line, TSO ISRFIND will
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I have never met 1000 and 1024 mix, like 1*1000*1024=1MB. Neither in
M$ nor elsewhere. Do you know such case ?
3.5 floppies. As noted in many
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Subject: Dataset allocated by JOB or ASID
Hi.
I would like to see all dataset name allocated by Job
Good morning,
…we are expanding our storage by about 1.5TB and moving to a DMX3…
…as part of this process EMC is stating that we need to do a
REFORMAT VTOC across our farm…
…have not been able to pin the whys and hows down…
…might someone have the whys and hows?
John
from which system do you move ?
EMC - then SRDF would be an option .
Volumes are the same size or migrating also from 3390-9 to larger ones ?
TDMF or FDRPAS ?
depending on the answers i have some ideas why - but there is no MUST .
Frank Krueger
Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 16:12
To:
John,
A WAG is that it has to do with Alternate track. You will probably have to
do this on every volume following migration from a 3990 CU emulation that
does not have the volumes flagged as RAMAC, or this was not done in a prior
migration.
It's a must...
Ron
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...z/OS V1R4 to z/OS V1R7
...we replicate SRDF 8530(home site) to 8830(remote site)
...moving to SRDFA DMX3 to DMX3
...and some model 27s will be introduced
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:48 PM
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Subject: Re: IBMLink SEV 1 OUTAGE AGAIN!!! #32644395
I thought you might want to know that this is becoming a bone of
Robert Justice wrote:
and I won't say the other comment, I promise.
Out of curiosity:
IBMlink is down again. So WHAT ?
I work everyday with mainframes, I use some IBM web services, like
ShopzSeries, but I have no interest to visit IBMlink.
IBMlink (un)availability has completely no meaning
John,
Just went through this exercise over the weekend.
Why's;
Has to do with freespace as I was told. If not done the volume will not see the
freespace.
How's;
//S1 EXEC PGM=ICKDSF,PARM='NOREPLYU'
//DD1 DD DISP=SHR,UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=xx
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:49 AM
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Subject: Re: web IBMLINK down again - so what ?
Robert Justice wrote:
and I won't say the other comment, I promise.
Out of
Arthur T. wrote:
Of course, many E-mail programs would cut that off automatically if
people would just use the defined standard sig separator: A line of
dash dash space, as I use below. (No, I can't name the RFC that
defines it, but I have seen it and it really is a defined standard.)
In
We use a layered approach to include TLS, physically isolated LAN's, and
other measures.
Note that SSH (secure shell) does not seem to qualify as ID's and
passwords flow in the open. As far as I can tell, only certificate based
protocols are acceptable for those under a PCI gun. Some PC types
Perfect, thankyou Jimmy and all who responded...
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Sent:
I am trying to execute a Unix Shell Script from the Mainframe via a FTP
process.
Can it be done?
If so, can you provide a sample setup.
Regards,
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I am trying to execute a Unix Shell Script from the
Hal Merritt wrote:
We use a layered approach to include TLS, physically isolated LAN's, and
other measures.
Note that SSH (secure shell) does not seem to qualify as ID's and
passwords flow in the open. As far as I can tell, only certificate based
protocols are acceptable for those under a
it has no meaning for me either, since I use the 3270 interface, oops !
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On 7/31/07, Allen Thennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to execute a Unix Shell Script from the Mainframe via a FTP
process.
Can it be done?
If so, can you provide a sample setup.
Regards,
Allen Thennes
IT- Production Support
Walgreen Co.
(847) 788-4648
John,
==
…we are expanding our storage by about 1.5TB and moving to a DMX3…
…as part of this process EMC is stating that we need to do a
REFORMAT VTOC across our farm…
…have not been able to pin the whys and hows down…
…might someone have the whys and hows?
If it's Dataset contention your trying to discover, you might also try
in ISPF, using DDLIST;CON command
Darren
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My understanding that a OSA Express tokenring can run SNA either non-QDIO
or QDIO
Is this correct...also the devices are gen'd as OSE's device typesthe
Gig OSA's we have are OSD ... this sound correct..?
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What I'm missing by not using IBMlink ???
Opening PMRs electronically. Seeing updates to existing PMRs
electronically. Opening ETRs (questions) electronically. Seeing updates
to ETRs electronically. (ETR)
Problem diagnosis
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Robert Justice wrote:
and I won't say the other comment, I promise.
Out of curiosity:
IBMlink is down again.
CA LOOK had this (D alloc,j=), but it is not supported anymore. I believe
that sysview from CA has a replacement for this, that you can run from the
system console.
Itschak
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On 31 Jul 2007 07:54:10 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Out of curiosity:
IBMlink is down again. So WHAT ?
I work everyday with mainframes, I use some IBM web services, like
ShopzSeries, but I have no interest to visit IBMlink.
IBMlink (un)availability has completely no meaning for me.
FTP doesn't allow for remote execution of scripts.
Our Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit allows you to do this (over an SSH
connection).
It also allows the Unix shell script read and write access to MVS
datasets over the same encrypted connection.
Output and return codes from the remote shell script
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and I won't say the other comment, I promise.
This habitual non-availability of the intended sole customer interface
to IBMLink has gone so far past ridiculous that an adequate adjective to
describe it
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:56 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote:
Note that SSH (secure shell) does not seem to qualify as ID's and
passwords flow in the open.
Ohno! This is never the case!
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Jim McAlpine wrote:
On 7/31/07, Allen Thennes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to execute a Unix Shell Script from the Mainframe via a FTP
process.
Can it be done?
If so, can you provide a sample setup.
Regards,
Allen Thennes
IT- Production Support
Walgreen Co.
(847) 788-4648
What I have been told is that z/OS no longer uses the alternate tracks, so
the reformat removes them from the VTOC.
Frankly, I haven't looked into this deep enough to know how you would ever
get a bad track since there is so little use of real 3390 disk volumes
anymore to cause z/OS to try and
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 10:54 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: web IBMLINK down again -SEV1 32656350
SNIP
Perhaps the time is coming for influential customers to start
snip
I'm in ATL right now. But when I return to Tuscaloosa, I will take out
my software and just let the subscribers do as they please.
Darren
---unsnip
Darren, please don't do that. I, for one, appreciate
Here's what Mark Fyffe said today in reply to notes I've
sent him (and others) regarding IBMLink 2000 outages:
From: Mark Fyffe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Steve,
There is a great deal of focus on the problems. There have been some
short term steps taken with each problem that has arisen and there
Timothy Sipples wrote:
Encrypt everything, basically. That's anything sensitive flowing over a
network wire (even inside your data center), anything on tape, and
(usually) anything on disk.
Excuse me, what company encrypts anything on disk ???
IMHO encrypt everything is kind of euphemism
On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Thompson, Steve wrote:
-
SNIP---
Meanwhile, if you contact Mr. Palmisano's office as I have, you might
get more satisfaction. You might get a phone call from his people
asking
just what is the
Tom,
==
What I have been told is that z/OS no longer uses the alternate tracks, so
the reformat removes them from the VTOC.
Frankly, I haven't looked into this deep enough to know how you would ever
get a bad track since there is so little use of real 3390 disk volumes
Ron
Take a look at the attached text - use a non-proportional font - which shows
that, using traditional level 3 support, QDIO cannot be used with SNA
*natively*. You need Enterprise Extender in order to run SNA using QDIO
because QDIO only runs IP natively.
This so-called level 2 support
Steve
How about if someone on the list who has a web site set up a standard e-mail
to send to the illustrious Mr. Palmisano. The e-mail could consist of the
eloquence we so often find in these posts regarding how vital a tool this is
and how it was trumpeted by IBM as being so 21st century
After going from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.7 I have noticed that we are now getting
our catalogs Auto tuned.
IEC391I CATALOG CATALOG.DIC3.TECH HAS BEEN AUTOTUNED TO:
IEC391I BUFNI: 4 BUFND:18 STRNO: 2
Is there some sort of performance issue I should be aware of? Should I
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 11:41 AM
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Subject: Re: web IBMLINK down again -SEV1 32656350
I think I will copy Mr. Fyffe and inquire if this means that all
Lizette Koehler wrote:
After going from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.7 I have noticed that we are now getting
our catalogs Auto tuned.
IEC391I CATALOG CATALOG.DIC3.TECH HAS BEEN AUTOTUNED TO:
IEC391I BUFNI: 4 BUFND:18 STRNO: 2
Is there some sort of performance issue I
SNIP
After going from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.7 I have noticed that we are now
getting our catalogs Auto tuned.
IEC391I CATALOG CATALOG.DIC3.TECH HAS BEEN AUTOTUNED TO:
IEC391I BUFNI: 4 BUFND:18 STRNO: 2
Is there some sort of performance issue I should be aware of? Should I
turn
Alternative tracks are actually provided for in the controller and were last
used in the 3990-6. The advent of 2105 controller and emulation of it by
disk arrays had no microcode to take advantage of/or use alternate tracks.
When you reformat the VTOC, this process in no way compromises any data
Darth Keller wrote:
SNIP
After going from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.7 I have noticed that we are now
getting our catalogs Auto tuned.
IEC391I CATALOG CATALOG.DIC3.TECH HAS BEEN AUTOTUNED TO:
IEC391I BUFNI: 4 BUFND:18 STRNO: 2
Is there some sort of performance issue I should
R.S. Wrote...
Excuse me, what company encrypts anything on disk ???
IMHO encrypt everything is kind of euphemism (fiction if you want).
It is simply impossible.
I must tell you, it is not. We have 2 types of encryption criteria
coming from PCI...
1. Admin user-ID's which we are encrypting using
The PTFS for apar OA19870, UA33288 and UA33289 (zOS 1.71.8) are
available and you should be able to get them with the smpe receive from
network function even while IBMLINK is down.
I should have been a little less cryptic - we've got the maintenance
staged, but it's been delayed until the end
But you should probably get in now. No telling how long the current
window of opportunity will stay open.
It's hard to tell whether it's just the sign-in interface that fails so
regularly, or all of the web interfaces to the IBMLink applications also
suffer. Even after successful sign-in,
I believe it is on z/os.
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administrative access.
On Tue,
Does any one know if Eztrieve+ on the mainframe currently supports
calling LE compiled functions in DLL modules? Or if there is planned
future support for it? (See OS390 Cobol EXPORT ALL, IMPORT CODE)
Darren
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Darren,
===
Does any one know if Eztrieve+ on the mainframe currently supports
calling LE compiled functions in DLL modules? Or if there is planned
future support for it? (See OS390 Cobol EXPORT ALL, IMPORT CODE)
===
I just searched BookManager for 6.4
Hal Merritt wrote:
I believe it is on z/os.
I just performed an ssh to my workstation from a z/OS system and the
packet trace (wireshark) shows encrypted packets from my lpars IP
address to my workstation.
I can't believe that IBM would port ssh to zOS and take the encryption out.
Omegamon does this by scheduling an SRB routine in the target address
space. Authorized commands:
-PEEK jobname
DDNS
You might even have an Omegamon terminal near the system console.
db
CA LOOK had this (D alloc,j=), but
Hi There,
Please suggest a quick way to get complete list of PTF for a given
subset of PSP Bucket.
TIA,
Raj
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Hi Darth,
Did they give you any indication of how many other sites if any have
been impacted? I thought it would be flagged CATBREAKER but the
criteria must be a little different that that keyword.
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
System z Performance
I am probably not understanding how SSH works. I was under the
impression that you must first gain access via RACF and VTAM
(TCP/IP)before you can get to somewhere you can invoke SSH.
Traffic via SSH is encrypted.
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Do some research on the Enhanced PSP Tool (Use your favourite search
engine).
I think it might provide what you are looking for.
Alan
Subject: PTF list for a subset from PSP bucket
Hi There,
Please suggest a quick way to get complete list of PTF for a given
subset of PSP Bucket.
TIA,
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Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:57 PM
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Subject: Re: PCI Compliance - Encryption of all non-console
administrative access.
I am probably not
Did they give you any indication of how many other sites if any have
been impacted? I thought it would be flagged CATBREAKER but the
criteria must be a little different that that keyword.
Hi Sam -
The thread Damaged Catalog Alert was started yesterday by Alen Schenk.
He's the one with the
On 31 Jul 2007 09:39:32 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Steve
How about if someone on the list who has a web site set up a standard e-mail
to send to the illustrious Mr. Palmisano. The e-mail could consist of the
eloquence we so often find in these posts regarding how vital a tool
See http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/reference/glossary_k.html
kilobyte (KB) 1. n. For processor storage, real and virtual storage, and
channel volume, 2**10 or 1024 bytes. 2. n. For disk storage capacity and
communications volume, 1000 bytes.
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Although AUTOTUNE exposed the problems described by APAR OA19870, the
feature is good. Catalog ACB options are set according to the demands of the
Catalog Address Space.
Assuming that most catalogs is shared, you can only set BUFND, BUFNI, and
STRNO as static values for the catalog through
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:07:26 -0500, Mullen, Patrick wrote:
I have never met 1000 and 1024 mix, like 1*1000*1024=1MB. Neither in M$
nor elsewhere. Do you know such case ?
Do a Google search for:
1,024,000 BYTE
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I guess that makes me half right, half wrong, a half wit, or some
combination thereof :-))
I'll admit that I tend to think in binary (albeit mostly zeros) and I
consider an administrator's ID to be somewhat sensitive traffic. Of
course, many (most?) might disagree. I don't think PCI is that
By default where I work, all tn32070 is encrypted with SSL (no matter if
administrator or not). We use Passport PC to Host and Web to Host as
the emulators.
For secure FTP we use WS FTP Pro.
Not sure if this helps you, but that's how we secured terminal data
streams at our shop.
Darren
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/29/2007
at 04:44 PM, John S. Giltner, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
As stated hard drive manufactures use 1000, not 1024.
Except when they use M = 1,024,000.
As to file sizes, well you say a 1MB file is 1,024,000 bytes,
Does he, or does he say that it's 1,048,576
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/31/2007
at 12:30 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
No. There was no such convention.
Wrong. Tape capacity was measured in units of 1,000 in the 1950's, the
1960's, the 1970's and beyond, across vendors
I have never met 1000 and 1024 mix, like 1*1000*1024=1MB.
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/26/2007
at 08:11 AM, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If everyone opted out of notification of vendor products - do you
think Share would continue to get the funds they need so that they
can put on the conferences for us?
The Devil is in the details. If the
In
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on 07/26/2007
at 09:00 AM, Dave Thorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
At CMG we handle vendor emails differently than SHARE, and I
understand the spam problem. But as Lizette says, there's a delete
key. And we all know how to use it.
There's also a deny list, and some of us
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/28/2007
at 12:18 AM, Bruce Hewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
until M$ came along, and before KiB became a standard, I was taught
the convention as:
Disk: always use decimal value, i.e. KB = 1000 Bytes.
Memory: always use binary value, i.e. KB = 1024 Bytes.
UNIVAC
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/23/2007
at 07:33 PM, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
ITYM 64Ki-1.
Yes. Thanks.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 07/26/2007
at 09:56 AM, Thompson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
From time to time I get postings from IBM-Main that only contain a block
of something like the following:
Was that leading a typo? It normally indicates quoted text.
Did the header include lines like
On 21 Jul 2007 06:10:13 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
The question how SMF records can be accessed with any generality is being
fudged.
One can now access some of them some of the time in (modern) COBOL, which
does support the data type FUNCTION POINTER.
With the ability to use
On 20 Jul 2007 07:48:03 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 06:31 -0700, Ray Mullins wrote:
In something as compute-intensive as SMF triplets, every little bit
helps.
The nasty part is testing bit fields in COBOL. The LE bit test routines
are expensive to run. (I
In
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on 07/23/2007
at 03:21 PM, Mark House [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I am trying to look at the stack in a dump through IPCS.
Which stack? Linkage? TSO? Save area chain?
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In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 07/26/2007
at 08:57 AM, Andy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What I noticed was in the Consol00 member we had the UNIT(3270-X)
which is valid as per init and tuning.. The HCD was checked and its
defined as a 3270-X also then says something like it will emulate a
R.S. wrote:
Bruce Hewson wrote:
Well Radoslaw,
As I said the original convention for disk was 1000 bytes = 1KByte.
No. There was no such convention. Possibly there was no convention at
all, although IMHO the most popular convention was IT k=1024, while
non-IT k=1000.
There was indeed a
Well first of all, I should probably point out that some of the more
useful features available on IBMLink are not free but part of a
chargeable service (Software Excel?). This I believe includes the
ability to search on and examine known issues (open as well as closed
APARs, as well as open
Herbie Van Dalsen already replied with much of what I would say, but I do
have a couple comments.
R.S. writes:
Excuse me, what company encrypts anything on disk ???
Some. Numbers are increasing. IBM doesn't add features like ENCRYPT (SQL
keyword) to DB2 or ship products like IBM Data Encryption
Hi all,
I have decided that it would be kind of a cool idea to be able to access
some of our software (especially the Spool Offload facility) from a secure
internet connection, but I don't want to use CICS services or DB/2 because I
can't gaurentee that they will be available at all of the sites
By CICS Services, do you mean Web Services or CICS itself?
CICS Listener support does alot of the communications heavy lifting for
you. That is if what you're serving is available from CICS.
Can you really guarantee that WebSphere will be available in all sites
as well? Not likely.
A
Tom,
I believe the change occurred with the RAMAC volumes and not the 2105. EMC
made it a default in one of the Microcode upgrades in late 1995, and HDS
provided an option to format volumes as 3390-3R in the 7700E and beyond.
It made life a bitch for allocation where RAMAC and non-RAMAC devices
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