The SyzCMD/z program is also available because of an agreement we have with IBM
to ADCD users at for only 5% of the retail price (which is already very low).
It does everything that the CBT Commands program on file 19 does, plus adds
more than twice the number of extra features. One of them
Yahoo! Mail -- the Web version -- *still* does not use HTTPS for most
communications AFAIK. For example, if you're using a free wi-fi hotspot at
a coffee shop, and you access Yahoo! Mail via their Web interface,
practically everything except your login credentials flows in the clear. A
fairly
I do trust the sender and apparently they cannot (easily?) send me it as a
PDF.
Neither Word2002(XP) nor Wordpad properly open it.
I unzipped it and tried sending the XMLs to IE and Firefox and they didn't do
anything.
Any ideas?
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Hi,
We just ordered a new z114 that will replace our z10BC.
I have to create an IODF for the new computer.
All required maintenance has been applied.
Is there a way to do this without redefining all of the current definitions?
Thanks
Gadi
לשימת לבך, בהתאם
From: גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com
Subject: IODF for new computer
We just ordered a new z114 that will replace our z10BC.
I have to create an IODF for the new computer.
Gadi,
are you sure you mean IODF and not IOCDS ?
One of the first thing you need to do when you get a new HW is to feed
Word 2007 changed to a zipped, XML based file format (.docx).
There is an addin to older varions of Word to read 2007 files:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx
Alternatively, the sender might be able to use save
Once I created the IODF, I can create input to IOCP that can be read by the new
computer.
Gadi
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Of Walter Marguccio
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:46 PM
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We swapped out a z10 to a z196 processor last weekend and on one of the
lpars we're seeing something that I don't understand.
The lpar in question has been defined with 6GB memory with 2GB in
reserve, same as it was on the old z10. But when we IPL the zOS 1.12
image on the new processor we're
For a while, but I'm not sure that the PCHIPID's will be the same.
Gadi
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 2:48 PM
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Subject: Re: IODF for new
We have an OSA Express 2 trying to define it as an OSA-ICC. We changed the
channel type in HCD to be OSC, defined the OSC control unit etc. Activated it
and now we see the following:
In the channels work area, it says that it is Reseerved - Definition error.
According to Channel Problem
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OpenOffice (when it was unclear whether OpenOffice development could
continue after Oracle
W dniu 2012-07-16 15:02, Dana Mitchell pisze:
We have an OSA Express 2 trying to define it as an OSA-ICC. We
changed the channel type in HCD to be OSC, defined the OSC control
unit etc. Activated it and now we see the following:
In the channels work area, it says that it is Reseerved -
Hi Allan,
I issued the command - HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) - but HSM
didn't release the tapes. In this LPAR these tapes belong to a dedicated HSM
pool. Would you hazard a guess as to why the tapes still show when I issue the
LIST TTOC SELECT(BOTH)
020052 3590-1
What is your card model? Provide CCIN and/or FC (feature code).
Not all OSA card can be ICC.
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Lodz, Poland
Bingo. After I hit send, I looked at the PCHID assignments, the one that
doesn't work is OSA Express2 GBe, not ICC capable :(
Silly me, I thought all of them
That (G2) is the Cadillac paid-for version.
Get the freebie from the CBT site. I believe 4.3 GenLevel 050627 is the latest.
Bob
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Matan Cohen
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:06 AM
To:
It is on the CBT tape.
Regards,
John K
Matan Cohen of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu
wrote on 07/16/2012 09:05:34 AM:
Hi ,
does 'MXI' isn't a freeware anymore?
http://www.rocketsoftware.com/mainstar/products/mxi-g2
I can't seem to find any link for downloading it
Ok ... thank you both .
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.comwrote:
The freeware MXI 4.3 is still on the www.cbttape.org site
Note that it has not been updated for over 7 years and is getting evermore
creaky as z/OS advances onwards (it very nearly broke
Hi all,
I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe.
Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6).
One is for production and the other for development.
Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for
years now,
Call your IBM Hardware Support ASAP
Rob Scott
Lead Developer
Rocket Software
77 Fourth Avenue . Suite 100 . Waltham . MA 02451-1468 . USA
Tel: +1.781.684.2305
Email: rsc...@rs.com
Web: www.rocketsoftware.com
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Back to basics: My pet peeve(s) (serious security concerns) are:
1) sites which do not allow use of the full set of special characters. My
banks, Google and Facebook do, so it is not that hard. The more
posibilities for each character, the more secure the password.
2) sites which limit
Was anything else running in DFHSM when you issued the recycle? I don't
think Recycle will work if PSM/SSM is running
Lizette
Hi Allan,
I issued the command - HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) -
but HSM
didn't release the tapes. In this LPAR these tapes belong to a
dedicated
The acceptability of length limitations depends upon their values.
Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are
unacceptable today.
A limitation to at most 2^15 - 1 = 32767 characters is, in my view
at least, unobjectionable. Larger limitations like this one are often
Thanks Mike, after checking master or user status volume, I created my own
customized report.
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Hello,
Is it possible to retrieve a tape dataset's volser via iggcsi? what's the type
of a tape data set?
Regards
Victor
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In
of481ed85f.720f607e-on48257a3d.00242269-48257a3d.0026c...@us.ibm.com,
on 07/16/2012
at 03:03 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com said:
Yahoo! Mail -- the Web version -- *still* does not use HTTPS for
most communications AFAIK. For example, if you're using a free
wi-fi hotspot
john_matt...@ea.epson.com (John Mattson) writes:
Back to basics: My pet peeve(s) (serious security concerns) are:
1) sites which do not allow use of the full set of special characters. My
banks, Google and Facebook do, so it is not that hard. The more
posibilities for each character, the
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote:
The acceptability of length limitations depends upon their values.
Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are
unacceptable today.
Passwords, yes; userids, meh -- I don't consider a userid to
Perhaps 8 character passwords should be replaced with 255 characters passphases
(password phases) ?
Steve Finch
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Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:14 PM
To:
Dang, you hit it. In parmlib it's set to 5120M, but in the lpar it's at
2048M, which is incorrect.
Thanks for your assistance.
Mark Jacobs
On 07/16/12 08:10, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
Did you check the value of RSU= in IEASYSxx?
Kees.
Mark Jacobsmark.jac...@custserv.com
The 32 kib bound has two rationales: 1) It is enough/overkill for
passwords used by people and 2) larger values are problematic, produce
control-block overflows, in some contexts.
The first of these two is the more important. The practice of
Increasing the supported length of something from 8
OK, here's the story so far:
We've tried IPLing a few times, and later performed a power-on-reset, but
still got the message a few hours later.
Unfortunately, they do not have official IBM support (assuming they would even
support such old machines), and I don't think that's about to change,
Hello SHARE and EWCP members -
The SHARE conference in Anaheim, CA is approaching quickly. There are many
new sessions with a lot of good information
waiting to be shared. It will be held at the Marriott Hotel, August 5th
through August 10th, 2012.
The Enterprise Wide Capacity and
I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe.
Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS
1.6).
One is for production and the other for development.
Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the
Mainframe for years now, so
IBM will come out and perform service for time and the cost of parts even
without a service contract. You have two choices: 1) Pay IBM or 2) accelerate
your migration you that you're off the z900 before it totally craps out. This
may sound harsh but those are your choices.
Bob Shannon
There are companies out there that sell and service used mainframes.
If you can't get the part replaced, then a used mainframe could be
purchased. With a new minimum z114 starting at $75,000, z9 or z10
should be a bit cheaper.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:42 PM, peter novack peter.nov...@gmx.com
this is exactly why I did not respond
another shop getting off MF but in mean time stopped paying for HW SW
support etc
I guess its time and materials
From: Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU,
Date: 07/16/2012 02:46 PM
Subject:Re: Urgent
Explanation: The Service Processor has malfunctioned and MVS cannot
communicate with it. Certain MVS functions are inoperative, including CONFIG,
some D M, and some operator-communication facilities. Hardware error logging
is also inoperative.
MVS might remain functional for an
ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system
functions are inoperative.
Service Processor is also known as the SE or Support Element.
Further investigation would need to be done by your hardware support
team.
Have you tried to reboot the support Element? There
Forgot to mention that the Service Elements are the laptop computers inside the
covers of the z900.
Cliff McNeill
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:07:50 -0500
From: sy...@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
ISN000E The service processor
Victor,
Yes, you can retrieve a tape dataset's volser(s) using IGGCSI. I am not
positive that I know what you mean by the type of the tape dataset. If it
is the entry type, that would be NON-VSAM.
A good place to start is the provided samples. I started with IGGCSIRX,
the REXX one. It lists
You mandate any policy you want, try enforcing password rules
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Jul 16, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Finch, Steve (ES - Mainframe)
steve.fi...@hp.com wrote:
Perhaps 8 character passwords should be replaced with 255 characters
passphases (password phases) ?
Steve
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote:
We have begun to see fallout. Fortunately, it's amateurish so far.
This moring my wife received an email, a long litany of woe and
injuries, allegedly from an old friend and college classmate. She
wanted us to send
Yep. Could be a bad power supply in Laptop, bad cable between Laptop and
z900, hard drive failure. No indication that there's anything wrong with z900
at all(as of yet)..
In a message dated 7/16/2012 3:53:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
sy...@hotmail.com writes:
Service Elements are the
zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) writes:
I've heard of folks who've fallen for this. What I can't imagine is the
confluence of someone who I know well enough to blindly send money to AND
think I'd be high enough on their list of folks to email AND wouldn't know
that they were overseas already AND
Yep,
One big concern I see in this at this point is if they shut the LPARs down and
the SE isn't talking to the CEC, how do they bring them back up? Hopefully it
is something simple like a bad power supply on one of the 2 laptops and they
can either fairly quickly fix it or use the alternate.
Does anyone know the answer to this?
I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I
define and store it like this
void __cdecl (*entryPoint)(const char *);
entryPoint = (void (__cdecl *)(const char *))(myVoidStar);
printf(entryPoint is %p\n, entryPoint);
Printf prints
I suggest investigating the CALLBACKANY compiler option.
On 17/07/2012, at 8:13 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
Does anyone know the answer to this?
I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I
define and store it like this
void __cdecl
Why the __cdecl instead of extern OS?
On 17/07/2012, at 8:34 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
Wow! Fast answer, and looked very promising, but no change in behavior.
Added DLL(CBA) to my options.
Charles
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On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:31:07 -0400, zMan wrote:
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are
unacceptable today.
Passwords, yes; userids, meh -- I don't consider a userid to be a secure
data point.
It's not a
1. If I code the declaration as
extern C void (*entryPoint)(const SMFrecd *);
(did not try OS but it would have the same problem I think) then that is
the declaration of an external function, not the definition of a pointer,
right? In any event I get unresolved extern's on entryPoint at link
For a non-vsam dataset, how can I determine if it is a dasd dataset or a tape
dataset? What's the criteria to check if a dataset reside on tape?
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Another way of saying what I am trying to do is what you do if you are
calling from C++ any MVS callable service or something like that using the
pointer somewhere off of the CVT.
Looking at the header file for CSRSI it looks like perhaps you can't do it
from C++.
Charles
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David, thanks, will try again tomorrow.
Does it perhaps want to factor differently? Perhaps something more like
(*extern OS entryPoint)(const char *);
or something? Otherwise aren't you saying that the pointer itself is extern?
Don't let me confuse the issue -- it is not CSRSI that I am
Victor,
Try a 'google rexx iggcsi' , there several samples and one of the fields was
tape datasets
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Jul 16, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn wrote:
For a non-vsam dataset, how can I determine if it is a dasd dataset or a tape
I saw on the 10 o'clock news that MS is offering Cloud based Office 2013
for trial. Not brave enough to try it on my PC(old). I searched a little but
couldn't find a MS link, but found this.
_http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/_
(http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/)
Don't know if
Paul Gilmartin writes:
It's not a matter of security; rather that many IT departments nowadays
have a standard of 8-character userids. IBM is a tail that can no longer
wag that dog; the CIO can cite refusal to comply with corporate standards
as one more strike against z/OS in a purchase decision.
Shmuel Metz asks:
Are you still using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or something more
modern, e.g., Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)?
Of course I use the latter, but a few points:
1. Wi-fi encryption only handles the hop between your wireless device and
the wireless router/access point. Beyond that
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