Re: How to verify if Secured FTP is being used

2011-06-15 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Lizette, SMF 119 does contain fields that do identify if the client session was using a secure mechanism. In addition, if the job(s) are specifying the SYSFTPD DD, check in the member(s) being referenced and see if the SECURE_MECHANISM parm is uncommented, and set to TLS. If that parm, and the a

Re: QUESTION ABOUT ABARS

2011-01-27 Thread Peter Vander Woude
John, If the dataset you're trying to recover was originally on tape, then it will not be in the .D. file, as that would only be for datasets that were originally on disk. I believe that any migrated or tape datasets get written to .O. dataset, which you will have to run a single dataset ARECOVER

scratch tape processing and luminex

2011-01-27 Thread Peter Vander Woude
We've got some luminex gateway appliances for virtual tape processing and are running into issues where between the time we generate the listing of scratch tapes, run update of the volcat, and send the scratch list to the luminex, some tapes are used and changed to master status in rmm. The window

Re: TSM Problem

2010-11-19 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Dave, In TSM, when changing the device type for a storage pool, I would recommend, creating a new device class, for pointing to the new esoteric. Then create a new stgpool, using that new device class. Update the stgpool hierarchy to refer to the new stgpool (or if writing direct to it, update t

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:04:36 -0800, Donald Russell wrote: >On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 06:15, Peter Vander Woude wrote: > >> Don, >> >> If your firewall folks just recently upgraded the firewall, it could be >> that the >> upgrade "defaulted", or reset some config

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Don, If your firewall folks just recently upgraded the firewall, it could be that the upgrade "defaulted", or reset some configuration settings. For FTPS, the firewall cannot do what's referred to as "stateful checking". I know ours does that, and if it does that on the control connection

Re: bookmaster

2009-11-13 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Martin, I really would prefer to continue using Bookmaster for producing this document, and printing it, but with IBM dropping support for it, I would like to continue printing this using a supported method. Yes, I am aware of B2H, and do utilize it, but that doesn't allow for printing v

Re: SFTP and SCP

2009-11-13 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Another option is the Tectia SSH server for z/OS (www.ssh.com) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http:/

Re: SCLM and ++include statements

2009-10-27 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Kurt, We too, have a front-end in our build process to handle ++include members. I just wish there was a parser sample, not written in rexx, that we could compile and have sclm flag it at that time. We did try the rexx sample a few years ago, and for one of the programs that has a large num

Re: cpu upgrade

2009-10-17 Thread Peter Vander Woude
My original question was about upgrading a cpu, by increasing the capacity of existing engines. If I am understanding the posts so far, this additional capacity is available immediately, correct? Any feedback on how ISV products, that have passwords, based on the cpu, handle the increase? Tha

cpu upgrade

2009-10-16 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Nowadays, if you upgrade the cpu capacity, by having ibm just apply the feature code to the box, does this take effect immediately on all the lpars, or must each lpar be ipl'd to pick up the new capacity? peter -- For IBM-MAIN

IEFC614I

2009-10-07 Thread Peter Vander Woude
We had a job failure, during submission, recently, that got the following message: IEFC614I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR SEARCHING FOR PROCEDURE/INCLUDE I know that just a few seconds before this job was submitted, a daily defrag ran, and had completed, on the volume, that one of the proclibs is on.

Re: Dumb Question - Credit Card Number Scanner

2009-09-21 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Lizette, If the CC # is encrypted, then the PCI standard is met, and yes it would be much more difficult to identify. Validation that a string of numbers is a CC # can be done by running a specific function against the 16 digits (I can't recall right now what it's called). If there are ANY

Re: Dumb Question - Credit Card Number Scanner

2009-09-21 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Doc, Actually, I dont' think this is accurate. From past audits, the PCI standard is very clear that the card #, stored "at rest" (either on disk, or tape), cannot be stored in the clear at all. If at least one person, or userid, can access this dataset, the card # MUST be encrypted. If

Re: Need new 3270 emulator: SSH, inexpensive, reliable

2009-08-27 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I'm not sure where you're management got their information about SSL being less secure than SSH. With the SSL configuration, you can configure it to use different ciphers, one of them being AES. Yes, as stated by others, SSH and SSL use Public key processing. And no you do not have to pay V

Re: BookLibrary Server and z/OS 1.8

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Andy, I believe that Library Server still will only work with XML Toolkit V1.6. I know 1.6 of the xml toolkit is out of support, but library server has not been updated to use the newer versions yet. I'm just getting to working on 1.7, and although I had the XML toolkit (v1.7-v1.9) on my

Re: SSL/TLS Woes FTP

2006-06-26 Thread Peter Vander Woude
John, I have run into somewhat the same situations. As someone else said, FTP-TLS and firewalls do not play nicely with each other. Primarily, some firewalls do what is called "stateful inspection". The client always (unless told to differently) tries to open the command channel to port 2

Crypto and D.R.

2006-05-15 Thread Peter Vander Woude
For those of you that are using the crypto facility for business purposes, I am curious on how your are managing the master key(s) or application keys for when you go to your d.r. site? For those willing to share this information, you can e-mail me offlist. Thanks, Pete -

Re: VTS Ejected volume

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Vander Woude
When the VTS ejects a volume as read-only, it means that the VTS has determined that the tape volume needs to be replaced. We were told that the volume is empty, and VTS had placed it in read-only status until there was no valid data on it. You need to get a new tape that will replace the on

Re: -911 fetching from a declared GTT.

2005-11-08 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Steve, You might want to take a look RESMIL value in the GRS config. If you went with the default config parm, that value would be RESMIL(10). Although we don't run DB2 here, we did see a performance improvement when we lowered this value to RESMIL(1). If you're able, take a look at GRS

Performance of PACK/UNPACK instructions

2005-09-23 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I'm doing an analysis of one of our application programs. As part of this, I'm seeing the COBOL code generate a lot of PACK/UNPACK instruction pairs. Does anyone have an idea on the performance impact of all these (potential millions of executions in a single run)? What's the impact of just

Re: Managing /service for SMP/E

2005-08-19 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Peter, It does work great, doesn't it? No worries about having the wrong HFS mounted to go with your RESVOL, and always IPL with the correct root (or version, if you have a Sysplex shared HFS structure implemented). Do you have any other products installed in their own HFS? I know that JAVA do

Re: Managing /service for SMP/E

2005-08-18 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Still, the problem remains with applications that need to have their HFS mounted at /service/usr/lpp/, as clearly recommended in the SMP/E documentation. It seems as if we have an SMP/E that can handle an arbitrary large number of target zones and always access the correct target data sets t

Re: secure ftp port 21 990 application layer firewall

2005-07-11 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Joel, I would suspect that the issue you're running into is that your firewall is doing "stateful inspection". The problem is not that the firewall doesn't recognize AUTH TLS, but that it's having a problem during the TLS negotiation. It is something that we ran into when first starting wit

Re: ds8000/ds6000

2005-06-17 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Mark, Just was at an IBM storage briefing. A couple more things relating to the ds8000 series. If you buy a DS8100 and then want to upgrade, in place, to a ds8300 box, you must backup all data, because the upgrade wipes out ALL data on the disk. Also, on the ds8000's, if you first just buy