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2012-05-28 Thread Frank Krueger
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Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:00:14 -0500 Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us wrote: :If you have ICSF configured you might be able to use one of the One-Way :Hash Generate Callable Services (CSNBOWH or CSNBOWH1 and CSNEOWH or :CSNEOWH1) :I don't know if we have ICSF installed. But even if we

UUIDGEN?

2012-05-28 Thread Magnus Persson
Hi. I'm trying to find what I should use instead of the uuidgen command, since this was part of DCE that is withdrawn. So is there a easy replacement for the uuidgen command to use in a USS script? Br. Magnus Persson -- For

Re: Transferring stuff from Mainframe to a RDz/UT clone of itself

2012-05-28 Thread Thomas Conley
On 5/28/2012 1:26 AM, melvinjac...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Friday, 25 May 2012 22:13:55 UTC+10, Thomas Conley wrote: On 5/25/2012 2:03 AM, mpjac...@comcen.com.au wrote: Hi all Can't readily see how to search the group, so apologies if this info is in here somewhere I'm just after opinion as

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Gary Weinhold
John M wrote (snipped): A full billion, 5 byte, packed numbers would require 5 billion bytes of storage (5 Gb), or about 2^23 bytes. If you wanted to, you could run a program and save this in a VSAM Linear dataset. You could then use this dataset as your permanent map and access it as a

DFSMS SG POOL Enablement

2012-05-28 Thread af dc
Hello, I've a SG in the following status: SCDS Name . . . . : PROD.SMS.SCDS Storage Group Name : SGDR Storage Group Type : POOL To ALTER Storage Group System/ Sys Group Status, Specify: System/Sys SMS SG System/Sys SMS SG Group Name Status Group Name Status --

Spool offload

2012-05-28 Thread R.S.
I'm going to cold start JES2. I would like to preserve my spool content by using spool offload. I changed parameters of OFF* devices to the following values: OFFLOAD1 DSN=SYS1.OFFLOAD,STATUS=DRAINED,ARCHIVE=ONE, CRTIME=RESET,LABEL=SL,PROTECT=NO,RETPD=0,

Re: Spool offload

2012-05-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 28 May 2012 15:56:24 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: I'm going to cold start JES2. I would like to preserve my spool content by using spool offload. I changed parameters of OFF* devices to the following values: OFFLOAD1 DSN=SYS1.OFFLOAD,STATUS=DRAINED,ARCHIVE=ONE,

Re: DFSMS SG POOL Enablement

2012-05-28 Thread af dc
Well, I guess this will do it: //MYLIBJCLLIB ORDER=SYS1.SACBCNTL //* //STEP1 EXEC ACBJBAOB, //TABL2=PROD.TEST.ISPTABL //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * PROFILE PREFIX(MYUSER) ISPSTART CMD(ACBQBAJ2 + ALTER + SCDS('PROD.SMS.SCDS') + STORGRP(SGDR) + SGSTSALL(ENABLE) +

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 28 May 2012 09:17:04 -0400, Gary Weinhold wrote: You only need (want) 1 billion random numbers. I think multiplying each 9 digit number by a prime greater than 1 billion and dividing by 1 billion will generate a unique 9 digit remainder for each number. (Why didn't I think of that!?)

Re: Spool offload

2012-05-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-05-28 17:10, Mark Zelden pisze: [...] I assume you are asking if they are correct prior to starting the offload. If so, it looks okay. If not, then of course you need to start offload1. Good assumption! My explanations weren't good enough. :-) Are you sure you disk output

Re: Spool offload

2012-05-28 Thread Skip Robinson
OK, I'll bite. Which parameters cannot be changed dynamically? I think you mentioned in another thread about having to resolve name conflicts. There ways to juggle things around via multiple incremental changes to achieve the desired result. I have systems last cold started in 1995. . .

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Sylvester
IMO the risk is not to have a non reversible key, but to hide this a bit. with a small number of output bits there are not many options. some approaches - take a prime number p large then the name space and smaller than the space to hold the result, take a generator g of the multiplicative

Re: DFSMS SG POOL Enablement

2012-05-28 Thread retired mainframer
The VARY command updates the active configuration in the SMS address space, not the SCDS dataset. By issuing the SETSMS after the VARY, you restored everything back the way it was, in effect undoing the vary. Either 1 - update an SCDS and then activate it or 2 - update the active

Re: Snap dump question

2012-05-28 Thread Charles Mills
Aw John, don't be grumpy. By obtuse I just meant you merely alluded to the solution, you didn't explicitly say if you really coded LECL you need to correct it to LRECL. No harm intended. Sorry for the offense. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Phil Smith
Peter Sylvester wrote: IMO the risk is not to have a non reversible key, but to hide this a bit. with a small number of output bits there are not many options. Well, if the goal is to protect the data, then it needs to be cryptographically secure. Security through obscurity isn't security. plug

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:30:45 -0500, Roberts, John J wrote: So all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) fields must be masked. I have figured out techniques to mask names and addresses. But I now need to figure out a technique to mask a nine digit numeric key. This field is used as

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 28 May 2012 11:19:01 -0700, Phil Smith a...@efghijk.lmn wrote: Well, if the goal is to protect the data, then it needs to be cryptographically secure. Security through obscurity isn't security. plug Voltage SecureData is an encryption platform that provides Format-Preserving

Re: TS7700 Scheduled Downtime Procedures

2012-05-28 Thread af dc
Hello, basically those are main issues to take care, what i usually do on ts7740 is: 1) 30mins before outage, vary all virtual addresses offline. Maybe there's jobs still running. 2) Put on hold all dfhsm tape functions 3)Verify is all virtual addresses are offline 4) Libs off 5) Channels off 6)

Re: TS7700 Scheduled Downtime Procedures

2012-05-28 Thread af dc
and wait 7 hours. On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:30 PM, af dc acbi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, basically those are main issues to take care, what i usually do on ts7740 is: 1) 30mins before outage, vary all virtual addresses offline. Maybe there's jobs still running. 2) Put on hold all dfhsm

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Phil Smith
Paul Gilmartin wrote: Can it deal with validity constraints such as the credit card check digit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm Of course...it will optionally recalculate it, leave it as-is, or force it invalid (another way to tell that the data is masked-although it turns out

Re: How to leave ISPF

2012-05-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4f439d1e-1523-49ed-815c-6fa3dcd87...@comcast.net, on 05/27/2012 at 10:36 AM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net said: I think that was because that way back when IBM had a TSO product called PCF. If memory serves me one of the feature that PCF offered was to be able to stack commands and

Re: How to leave ISPF

2012-05-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0898286174563950.wa.markmzelden@bama.ua.edu, on 05/25/2012 at 06:44 PM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com said: I don't know. But when used the way I described, you are in TSO READY from the =x;;x prior to the field mark, so it is SO at that point, not ISPF. No, you are not at the READY