Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Shane Ginnane
Ain't just software. The internet of things is underway, and the same ship it and be damned attitude prevails. Especially re (absence of) security. The Christmas Playstation and X-Box attack was launched from compromised home routers. Behind those same routers is now an array of {un,in}-secured

Re: IBM MASS and ATLAS with Vector Facility for z/Architecture Exploitation

2015-02-17 Thread Timothy Sipples
A bit ahead of schedule, the IBM MASS and ATLAS libraries for z/OS are now available for download as part of the XL C/C++ for z/OS update: http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/downloads Look for the XL C/C++ V2R1M1 web deliverable with z13 support for z/OS 2.1 link. The latest (as I write

Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:54:22 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: The examples you give are all software. Indeed. Let's hope people think about the included software when they're buying hardware. History doesn't inspire confidence. Then again, when bodies supposedly mandated to protect

Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0269152064501693.wa.ibmmaintpg.com...@listserv.ua.edu, on 02/17/2015 at 05:52 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au said: Ain't just software. The examples you give are all software. compromised home routers. The bug was in the router software, not in the router hardware. Likewise for

Re: Binder attributes

2015-02-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 54e3bc96.10...@comcast.net, on 02/17/2015 at 04:11 PM, Larry K. Slaten larry.sla...@comcast.net said: Trying to figure out what utility IEHLIST, AMBLIST, or EQALMA etc. shows the REUSE() attribute for each member being included in executable. None; the attribute is carried globally in

Re: need access to mainframe

2015-02-17 Thread esst...@juno.com
Hi, Where can I contact You off list, I may be able to suggest a site. -- Original Message -- From: Ze'ev Atlas 004b34e7c98a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: need access to mainframe Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 03:29:39 + Could anybody give

Re: Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Tom Brennan
You made me look - http://www.amazon.com/Minder-Wink-App-Enabled-Smart-Tray/dp/B00GN92KQ4 I can't believe it :) But I do somewhat agree with the shipping culture. I've created some small applications myself for various people, and if you initially ask them What do you want?, they can't tell

AW: Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Peter Hunkeler
That's not true in our case. We share the IODF between two sysplexes, it is cataloged in a user catalog that is connected to the master catalogs of all systems in both sysplexes. For the purpose of the IPL, the IODF does not need to be cataloged at all. You designate the IODF volume via its

Fwd: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread John McKown
Too good not to pass to this group. Preach it, Brother! quote ... Quickly getting something in front of the people that will actually use it is a great idea. It means you waste less time building something they don’t actually want. But I look around the industry today and I get worried. Don’t

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Rob Schramm
A more pointed question.. do you need to share the usercat between plexes? REPRO/MERGECAT or one of the Catalog vendors can split the USERCAT. Seems like you would need a pretty good reason to attempt to continue to share. Dave's right.. there are items in your share list that are not eligible

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Jaco Kruger
Hi, We are in the process of cleaning up all the shared User catalogs and volumes so that no data is shared. We plan however to share the IODF among the different SYSPLEX environments. We will create seperate CF Development LPARs and share it using WEIGHTs with the Production CF LPARs.

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Staller, Allan
Each sysplex will need its own copy of the IODF for IPL purposes. snip We are in the process of cleaning up all the shared User catalogs and volumes so that no data is shared. We plan however to share the IODF among the different SYSPLEX environments. We will create seperate CF Development

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
Only if this volume is not under GDPS hiperswap. If it is, all reserves must be converted. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Doug Henry Sent: 17 February, 2015 16:24 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Ambros, Thomas
That's not true in our case. We share the IODF between two sysplexes, it is cataloged in a user catalog that is connected to the master catalogs of all systems in both sysplexes. We have a couple very limited use catalogs for that kind of system resource - SMPE zones for example. Of course,

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Doug Henry
On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:26:14 +, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: snip - There is some User Catalogs that are being shared between the Development and Production environment /snip You cannot share catalogs across a sysplex boundary! This will cause bad things to happen.

RCF vs. COMMENT (was: IGW01595E message ...)

2015-02-17 Thread Phil Smith III
Paul Gilmartin wrote: They say is has been accepted as a clarification. They've not provided details in response to a followup request.) Hey, at least you got that much—I opened a SEV2 against a math function in C that was returning incorrout on true 64-bit values (i.e., values where the

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Staller, Allan
snip - There is some User Catalogs that are being shared between the Development and Production environment /snip You cannot share catalogs across a sysplex boundary! This will cause bad things to happen. BTDTGTTS!. I presume (not using it) that ECS and RLS have the same limitation. In

Re: COBOL v5.1 - PTF UI24300

2015-02-17 Thread Chase, John
Seems that UI24300 did not ship an updated SRC member (just the MOD member) for IGYCDOPT, so the resolution was to specify both PTFs in the PRE of the USERMOD. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chase, John Hi, All, On z/OS 1.13 I tried

Re: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Chase, John
Sounds a lot like Agile. :-) But then Steve Jobs made a fortune building things people didn't know they wanted. :-) -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Too good not to pass to this group. Preach it, Brother! quote ...

Re: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Sounds a lot like Agile. :-) ​I like how Joe Celko (SQL expert) ​defined Agile Programming: Code first, design later! But then Steve Jobs made a fortune building things people didn't know they wanted. :-) -jc-

Re: RCF vs. COMMENT (was: IGW01595E message ...)

2015-02-17 Thread Ed Gould
On Feb 17, 2015, at 8:12 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: They say is has been accepted as a clarification. They've not provided details in response to a followup request.) Hey, at least you got that much—I opened a SEV2 against a math function in C that was returning

Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Jaco Kruger
Good morning, Currently, the Production Parallel Sysplex environment consist of all the Development and Production LPARs, which is distributed across 2 mainframes. Each mainframe contains a Production Coupling Facility(CF) LPAR. We will remove the Development LPARs from the Production

Re: Vary OPEERLOG offline before IPLing the system?

2015-02-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:04:17 +, J O Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: Ah yes, the addendum must explain it. We have never coded ALLOWCMD(Y). Is that the whole difference? Yes.And while I mentioned z/OS 1.13, we skipped 1.12 due to a data center move and the function was

Binder attributes

2015-02-17 Thread Larry K. Slaten
Trying to figure out what utility IEHLIST, AMBLIST, or EQALMA etc. shows the REUSE() attribute for each member being included in executable. I'm ending up with NOREUS,NORENT,NOREFR and I know that the COBOL compiler is passing along RENT, some other included item is causing the whole package

OMVS ETCINIT issue.

2015-02-17 Thread Mainframe Mainframe
Hello, While IPL of z/OS 1.11 system , I am getting below issue related to ETCINIT. BPXI027I THE ETCINIT JOB ENDED IN ERROR, EXIT STATUS 1000 BPXI004I OMVS INITIALIZATION COMPLETE 10 Timeout /usr/sbin/init timed out waiting for the shell to finish executing the initialization

Re: OMVS ETCINIT issue.

2015-02-17 Thread Mainframe Mainframe
Problem has been resolved . This issue was with SYSLOGD demon . system working fine. Thanks for help. On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Mainframe Mainframe mainframe1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, While IPL of z/OS 1.11 system , I am getting below issue related to ETCINIT. BPXI027I

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
You are also going to lose the ability to share these as well: In fact, don't try to share anything. Build a large wall between the sysplexes, which can only be crossed by an FTP or similar application. Lastly, you don’t mention it, but your comments lead me to believe that you might be

Re: Parallel Sysplex split

2015-02-17 Thread Jousma, David
You are also going to lose the ability to share these as well: - ECS - GRS - WLM - ZFS - There is a number of volumes that is shared between the Development and Production environment The caveat on this is that you can't reliably share these outside of GRS. Many do it to allow sysprog