Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Diane Goodwin
Hello, Please bear with me. I'm normally a CICS System programmer. We all know the default setting for ALLOWUSERKEYCSA was changed to "NO" from yes. This causes a problem for our CICS regions (address spaces). We have a storage area that we obtain at the first CICS address space start up.

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Diane Goodwin wrote: > Hello, Please bear with me. I'm normally a CICS System programmer. > > We all know the default setting for ALLOWUSERKEYCSA was changed > to "NO" from yes. This causes a problem for our CICS regions (address > spaces). > > We have a storage

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread GOODWIN, DIANE M.
a.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Diane Goodwin wrote: > Hello, Please bear with me. I'm normally

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Lubrano
: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm I was just going through the book on what and how dataspaces work. The other issue is that we save the address of this shared storage in a common

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Chris Craddock
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, GOODWIN, DIANE M. wrote: > I was just going through the book on what and how dataspaces work. > > The other issue is that we save the address of this shared storage in a > common area. Then all application programs have the address in common, > will load it to a r

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread GOODWIN, DIANE M.
u] On Behalf Of Tony Lubrano Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm Diane, Does anybody need to update this storage area? If this is read-only, you can obtain the storage in Key

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Kevin Cogley
. > > Diane > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:40 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread GOODWIN, DIANE M.
So is my problem the subpool or the key 9? This is one thing that I'm unclear about. The area has to be obtained and then altered from one region. This region I do have a lot of the control of the programs in it. Then the area needs to be able to be referenced by a pass address for read only pur

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Sam Siegel
ime? Find out at www.zprime.com or just ask us! > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of GOODWIN, DIANE M. > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:00 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Need to find altern

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Jim Mulder
> This may not fit the bill for you, but have you considered using a > SCOPE=COMMON dataspace? I would strongly recommend against using a user key SCOPE=COMMON data space. It would have a security exposure which is similar to user key CSA. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeeps

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread GOODWIN, DIANE M.
Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm Are programs accessing the memory directly? Or though an in-house API or program? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:25:28 -0400, GOODWIN, DIANE M. wrote: >So is my problem the subpool or the key 9? This is one thing that I'm >unclear about. The problem is that you are trying to allocate user key common storage. For your purposes, you need it to be common, but you need to get it with a

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Lubrano
www.zprime.com or just ask us! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of GOODWIN, DIANE M. Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread GOODWIN, DIANE M.
alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm Diane, Yes, when ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO) is specified, all CSA allocations must be made in key 0-7. Otherwise, you abend with an SB78 or SB0A RSN=5C. Tony Lubrano Product Author NEON Enterprise Software, LLC. p: 281 207 4922 f: 281 207 4973

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Don Williams
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm Hello, Please bear with me. I'm normally a CICS System programmer. We all know the default setting for ALLOWUSERKEYCSA was changed to "NO" from yes. This causes a problem for our CICS r

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Sam Siegel
N@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of > ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm > > Are programs accessing the memory directly? Or though an in-house API > or > program? > > --

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Lubrano
ehalf Of GOODWIN, DIANE M. Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm So I really just need to change the key? I can still use the same subpool? -Original Message- From

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:22:58 -0500, Diane Goodwin wrote: > >We all know the default setting for ALLOWUSERKEYCSA was changed >to "NO" from yes. This causes a problem for our CICS regions (address >spaces). > >We have a storage area that we obtain at the first CICS address space >start up. The area

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-25 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:19 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage > because of ALLOWUS

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 03/24/2010 at 09:22 AM, Diane Goodwin said: > LAR1,SVCSAVE HOLD AREA FOR SVC 255 > SVC 255 GET INTO SUP. STATE WITH KEY 0 That's a bigger security exposure than ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(YES). >I get to figure out the best way to change this be

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-26 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Gilmartin To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, March 25, 2010 4:18:33 PM Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:22:58 -0500, Diane Goodwin wrote: > >We all know the default setting for ALLOWUSERKEYCSA was changed >to &quo

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-29 Thread GOODWIN, DIANE M.
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm In , on 03/24/2010 at 09:22 AM, Diane Goodwin said: > LAR1,SVCSAVE HOLD AREA FOR SVC 255 > SVC 255 GET INTO SUP. STATE WITH KEY 0 That'

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <33a9a3874f87c24aab996586c367def805bf2...@hoex01.amica.com>, on 03/29/2010 at 08:10 AM, "GOODWIN, DIANE M." said: >So, can I still use subpool 241 and just change the key? As long as whoever allocates and updates it is privileged. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT