Re: Monitor zFS file access with RACF?

2014-05-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-05-30 00:53, Charles Mills pisze: Sorry for an elementary question. I've got a customer asking me and I don't pretend to be a RACF expert. Yes, I know there is a RACF list but this list is more active. I know it is possible to monitor access to a group of traditional MVS datasets

Re: Monitor zFS file access with RACF?

2014-05-30 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Charles Mills wrote: Sorry for an elementary question. I've got a customer asking me and I don't pretend to be a RACF expert. This type of question is not elementary. Only by asking you will learn. Only wise guys ask, the rest pretents to be wise. ;-) Yes, I know there is a RACF list but

Re: Monitor zFS file access with RACF?

2014-05-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-05-30 10:58, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: [...] I know it is possible to monitor access to a group of traditional MVS datasets with ADDDSD FOO.BAR.** AUDIT(SUCCESS,...) ... Above is for SUCCESSfull attempts. You can use AUDIT(ALL(READ)) so all attempts, successfull or not, are

Re: Monitor zFS file access with RACF?

2014-05-30 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote and kindly corrected Elardus: Above is for SUCCESSfull attempts. You can use AUDIT(ALL(READ)) so all attempts, successfull or not, are logged. That is if LOGOPTIONS is set as ALWAYS for DATASET. I think you mean LOGOPTIONS DEFAULT, because default means see what is

Re: Costs of core

2014-05-30 Thread Scott Chapman
Those numbers sound about right to me. Prices probably better in some deals, etc., etc. But don't forget that server memory typically is at least ECC memory whereas typical PC memory is not. And z memory is now RAIM--with significant redundancy and continual scrubbing. It's a different

Re: Trying to set an FRR in AMODE64 + AR

2014-05-30 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 29 May 2014 21:14:14 -0500 Walt Farrell walt.farr...@gmail.com wrote: :On Thu, 29 May 2014 21:34:37 +0300, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: : :I would suggest changing the MNOTE as well. : :Why? It seems correctly worded to me. : ::+ 12,SETFRR A CANNOT BE ISSUED IN

Re: LOAD DE= generates the CSV019I abend

2014-05-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In be33c30c-4ff1-44af-9195-fd6821773...@comcast.net, on 05/29/2014 at 10:15 AM, Micheal Butz michealb...@comcast.net said: It seems anytime I use the load using the directory entry format I get the CSV019I abend load ep= works fine What does DE= point to? Do you have a DCB= operand? --

Re: IEE345I AUTHORITY INVALID, FAILED BY MVS

2014-05-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1988304729385583.wa.fred.kapteinhp@listserv.ua.edu, on 05/29/2014 at 12:41 PM, Fred Kaptein fred.kapt...@hp.com said: As per the following message log, they issue the LIBRARY command They need to talk to their security people about issuing MVS commands. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: Costs of core

2014-05-30 Thread R.S.
Well, defence without attack. I didn't write the memory in mainframe is the same as in x server or in regular PC. Just provided prices. Real prices, which of course may be better (why don't say LOWER?). Some remarks: * RAIM as memory redundancy is not unique to mainframes. I saw memory

Re: Monitor zFS file access with RACF?

2014-05-30 Thread Charles Mills
Perfect. Thanks, guys. This is the level of information I needed. I'm not trying to become a RACF auditor; just needed to point the customer in the right direction. The difficulties of RTFM. I searched the RACF manuals for references to zFS. Turns out the information is in the USS Command Ref.

Re: Monitor zFS file access with RACF?

2014-05-30 Thread Staller, Allan
ISTR there was a recent enhancement to (OMVS?/RACF?) to allow for SAF monitoring of USS file systems. I believe this was at the file/directory level. No sure but probably circa z/OS 1.12 or later. Walt, jump in here and correct me if I misstated the actual change. snip Sorry for an elementary

Re: Marna's Musings: Looking for Mr. APAR

2014-05-30 Thread Marna WALLE
Mary Anne, Thanks for the advertisement! I was holding the IBM-MAIN message until Friday and it was quiet around here. You beat me to the punch :). Allan and all: Take a close look at the search tips link on that page, which has some very good information. You can do excludes, such as

Re: OT: another z/OS sunsetted

2014-05-30 Thread Rob Schramm
I read an article about Infiniband which had a comment that stated Ethernet had been putting in advances from other technologies for years.. I think that the other platforms have done much the same to z. Google, Amazon etc.. have just become their own versions of IBM.. custom hardware and

Re: Costs of core

2014-05-30 Thread Mark Post
On 5/30/2014 at 07:47 AM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: * Virtual machines, 12TB RAM, 120 cores PC server for less than single book, single CP mainframe - think what Linux users would choose more likely. That depends on what application(s) they want to run on that 120 core

Print z/os logstream

2014-05-30 Thread Bill Rowehl
Is there a way to print records from a z/os logstream? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Data flow for 1403-N1?

2014-05-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Does anybody have old documentation for the data flow and timing of the 1403-N1? What I'm looking for is the minimum possible time between firing hammers and the minimum distance between consecutive firing hammers. I know that on the original 1403 the fastest possible was every third hammer every

Re: Costs of core

2014-05-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 358faca9f291d54398b2108eb58b1e3a6e7...@livexcmbxp02.citnet.cit.com, on 05/29/2014 at 07:04 PM, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com said: http://www.jcmit.com/memoryprice.htm 1960 $5,242,880/M IBM 1401 core memory 1965 $2,642,412/M IBM 360/30 core memory 1970

Re: Costs of core

2014-05-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAFO-8tp4s29f06q1y4SGU7gb=klzmr1ngxowa7g_kidg4vs...@mail.gmail.com, on 05/29/2014 at 02:55 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com said: I remember my father telling me that core -- REAL memory, a MAN'S memory (yeah, yeah, sexist) -- was $1/byte. Obviously that would have changed by the time it all

Re: Print z/os logstream

2014-05-30 Thread Leonardo Vaz
You can browse them using the IXGBRWSE macro, also if you have a monitor like CA-sysview, you might be able to easily browse it, in sysview it is the LGBROWSE command. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Rowehl

Re: Print z/os logstream

2014-05-30 Thread Wayne Morton
Rocket Software's Data Virtualization Server for z/OS provides SQL and NoSQL access to the logs. There are a few choices on how the access is done. You can either create a virtual map of the specific log record and access via SQL or you can use NoSQL and access via our virtual MongoDB

Re: Print z/os logstream

2014-05-30 Thread Andy Higgins
On Fri, 30 May 2014 09:24:03 -0500, Bill Rowehl wdrow...@gmail.com wrote: Bill, You can use a DD statement like: //name DD DSN=logstream.name,SUBSYS=(LOGR,IXGSEXIT),RECFM=VB,LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=32760 with your favorite report generating program or IDCAMS with a PRINT statement. The Redbook

Cloud vs. Mainframe? Try Mothra vs. Godzilla

2014-05-30 Thread Mark Regan
From Insurance Technology magazine: http://www.insurancetech.com/architecture-infrastructure/cloud-vs-mainframe-try-mothra-vs-godzill/240168344     Thanks, Mark Regan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: LOAD DE= generates the CSV019I abend

2014-05-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 29 May 2014 22:25:51 -0400, Micheal Butz michealb...@comcast.net wrote: I point to the name field I am going to try eploc and see what happens You didn't answer my question. Have you investigated the possibility that your DE information may be incorrect? If so, what have you done to

Re: SFTP Text transfer

2014-05-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
If you want to specify a hex pad character, then you need to specify: pad=0x40 The default pad character is a space in the source codepage (0x40 for EBCDIC). See: http://dovetail.com/docs/sftp/options.html#options_general I'm not sure why you are having a problem... do you have a file name

Re: SFTP Text transfer

2014-05-30 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Kirk, seems this problem is file related. When I use your supplied lzopts parms and a different input text file it formats fine on the server. When I try the original file we were trying to 'put' over it does not format correctly on the server. The input file seems like a normal text PS file.

Re: SFTP Text transfer

2014-05-30 Thread Gibney, Dave
Are you using a hex editor to confirm the server file state? Is it possible the server side is taking different actions base on the file type extension? Is the server Windows or ??? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: LOAD DE= generates the CSV019I abend

2014-05-30 Thread DASDBILL2
I'll add my two cents to this email from Walt Farrell and the one earlier this week from Peter Relson. Another possible approach to resolving this and many similarly elementary debugging situations you have had in the past, rather than query the aged IBM-MAIN experts daily, is to discover

Re: SFTP Text transfer

2014-05-30 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Thanks for the help, it's been resolved. I needed options lzopts mode=text,linerule=crlf Thank you. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 1:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

CA Common Services (and RACF too?) hook into Master Scheduler Initialization (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-05-30 Thread Storr, Lon A CTR USARMY HRC (US)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hello List, I've recently had cause to look into how CA-ACF2 gets started very early in the system initialization process. It apparently gets started by the CA Common Services (CCS) component but, as far as I can tell, this processing occurs before

Re: CA Common Services (and RACF too?) hook into Master Scheduler Initialization (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-05-30 Thread Staller, Allan
I believe ACF2 is started as a subsystem. I know RACF is. Look in SYS1.PARMLIB(IEFSSN**). snip I've recently had cause to look into how CA-ACF2 gets started very early in the system initialization process. It apparently gets started by the CA Common Services (CCS) component but, as far as I

Re: Costs of core

2014-05-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-05-30 16:28, Mark Post pisze: On 5/30/2014 at 07:47 AM, R.S. r.skoru...@snip-it.com.pl wrote: * Virtual machines, 12TB RAM, 120 cores PC server for less than single book, single CP mainframe - think what Linux users would choose more likely. That depends on what application(s) they

Check out BBC News - Apple devices 'hijacked for ransom' in Australia

2014-05-30 Thread Ed Finnell
_BBC News - Apple devices 'hijacked for ransom' in Australia_ (http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27588972) Coming to America? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: CA Common Services (and RACF too?) hook into Master Scheduler Initialization (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-05-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 30 May 2014 20:22:29 +, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: I believe ACF2 is started as a subsystem. I know RACF is. Look in SYS1.PARMLIB(IEFSSN**). RACF -has- a subsystem, Allan, but it is not part of the basic security processing (RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY, AUTH,

Re: Check out BBC News - Apple devices 'hijacked for ransom' in Australia

2014-05-30 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 30 May 2014 19:23:41 -0400, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: _BBC News - Apple devices 'hijacked for ransom' in Australia_ Last Apple device I ever bought was a Newton - it appears safe from the black hats :p Shane

VM Workshop - June 26-28

2014-05-30 Thread Neale Ferguson
VM Workshop trailer: http://youtu.be/97IjQlXvnE4 See full interviews at: http://www.vmworkshop.org/sites/www.vmworkshop.org/files/video/VMWorkshopcommercial.mp4 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: CA Common Services (and RACF too?) hook into Master Scheduler Initialization (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-05-30 Thread Gibney, Dave
Check out the IBM-MAIN thread What is IKJEFXSR? I started in April 2013. Lizette pointed us to CA article https://communities.ca.com/kbtech?docid=570878searchID=TEC570878 Which does explain how CAMASTER and CAHCHECK get going. It seems newer than ACF2 or Top-Secret, so I suspect those