Re: A possible bug in the IBM Runtimne C library

While I agree on that on a philosophical point of view, what are the real technical implication of that C design decision? Every 20 years, when there is a major architecture extension (for example 32 bit to 64 bit), some work has to be done, when for example long changes the meaning from 32-bit t

Restore error with adrdssu

Hello, I am undergoing the below error while restoring dataset from a z/os 2.1 system to 1.13 the JCL used is : //STEPT03 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SOURCE DD UNIT=3390,DISP=OLD,DSN=JAKE.BACKUP, // VOL=SER=TCHN008 //SYSINDD * RESTORE INDDNAME(SOURCE) -

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Here we go again: > http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish/ > > And, a classic (Ken Thompson ca. 1984): > http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html > > -- gil > > ​The above i

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On 20/02/2015 8:44 PM, John McKown wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Here we go again: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish/ And, a classic (Ken Thompson ca. 1984): http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

In fairness, since yesterday was Chinese New Year, Lenovo have decided to come to the party after all: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:58:35 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >But lately I've turned into a Mac weenie! I can do all my >favorite *nix stuff using brew and I've got a much better UI compared to >Ubuntu. Philistine. I place Apple below M$oft. One day whilst looking at tracing some kernel level inter

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On 20/02/2015 9:22 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:58:35 +0800, David Crayford wrote: But lately I've turned into a Mac weenie! I can do all my favorite *nix stuff using brew and I've got a much better UI compared to Ubuntu. Philistine. I place Apple below M$oft. Barbarian! M

Re: Restore error with adrdssu

What happens if you replace "RECATALOG(x)" with "CATALOG"? Do the datasets end up in the proper catalog? "CATALOG" uses the standard catalog search order for cataloging the datasets. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Be

Re: Restore error with adrdssu

What is the purpose of this job? Are you moving datasets on the same Catalog to a new location? What is the intent of using the RECATALOG(xxx) parm? Why did you code the RENAMEU this way? Is the ICFCAT on the system where the job is running? Is the HLQ(ZZ) on the system where it is running? Are

Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

On 2/19/2015 7:55 PM, Neubert, Kevin wrote: Any help here? TEC428347 http://www.ca.com/us/support/ca-support-online/product-content/knowledgebase-articles/tec428347.aspx Regards, Kevin After reading this technote, all I can say is "Justwow". Instead of CA creating an option or a comm

Re: ALL your SIM card encryption keys are belonging to NSA

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:57:44 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: > https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/ > FBI Director James Comey on Oct. 27, 2014: http://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-fbi-and-the-iacp-facing-challenges-together My hope is that before we get to a place i

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

John Eells (ee...@us.ibm.com) wrote: >I forwarded this on to the C compiler team, who retrieved your PMR from the >dusty archives and determined it was a Language Environment problem. >Apparently it got passed to them and they do see a problem, but >then...well...you kn

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

Paul Gilmartin wrote, in part, re "definitely not your father's IBM!": >That depends. Forty years ago, IBM could afford to be more arrogant. >They felt they were entitled to define or ignore the standards. OK, but they didn't ignore things like this. You're taking my comment as a unilateral "old

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

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:53:03 -0800, Phil Smith wrote: > >The most egregious old-time incident I remember is a time when the doc for >something said "all" and the Change Team was claiming that in this one case >that didn't apply. I found myself saying, "'ALL' means ALL!" and then >wondering why I

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

>>> On 2/20/2015 at 08:32 AM, David Crayford wrote: > Barbarian! Macs are beautiful. The product may be beautiful, but the company that produces it most certainly is not. Every time my wife brings up the idea of buying anything from them I tell her "no." Mark Post -

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 2/20/2015 at 08:32 AM, David Crayford wrote: > > Barbarian! Macs are beautiful. > > The product may be beautiful, but the company that produces it most > certainly is not. Every time my wife brings up the idea of buying anything > from

Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

That's what I was hoping for. Some kind of modify or even a S CAS9,refresh parm > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Thomas Conley > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 6:25 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re:

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 06:44:18AM -0600, John McKown wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin < > 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > Here we go again: > > http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish/ > > > > And, a classic (Ken Thompson ca. 1984): >

Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

In <54e743c9.9010...@rochester.rr.com>, on 02/20/2015 at 09:25 AM, Thomas Conley said: >After reading this technote, all I can say is "Justwow". >Instead of CA creating an option or a command to refresh the >security profiles (that would involve CODING, can't do that), we >have to hac

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On 20 February 2015 at 08:00, Jon Butler wrote: > In fairness, since yesterday was Chinese New Year, Lenovo have decided to > come to the party after all: > > http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish Who knew - Lenovo has a Z-Series! Tony H. --

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

W dniu 2015-02-20 o 16:54, John McKown pisze: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Mark Post wrote: On 2/20/2015 at 08:32 AM, David Crayford wrote: Barbarian! Macs are beautiful. The product may be beautiful, but the company that produces it most certainly is not. Every time my wife brings up

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:40 AM, R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2015-02-20 o 16:54, John McKown pisze: > >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Mark Post wrote: >> >> On 2/20/2015 at 08:32 AM, David Crayford wrote: >> > Barbarian! Macs are beautiful. >>> The product may be beautiful, but the c

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

W dniu 2015-02-20 o 19:01, Sam Siegel pisze: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:40 AM, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2015-02-20 o 16:54, John McKown pisze: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Mark Post wrote: On 2/20/2015 at 08:32 AM, David Crayford wrote: Barbarian! Macs are beautiful. The product may be b

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

>>> On 2/20/2015 at 11:28 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: >> ​ And I trust Linux hardware vendors more than those who get extra >> money for installing "adware" and the like. > > I'm afraid this is the very same hardware. The problem he was having isn't with the hardware, but what the vendors layer on

Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

On 2/20/2015 11:44 AM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In <54e743c9.9010...@rochester.rr.com>, on 02/20/2015 at 09:25 AM, Thomas Conley said: After reading this technote, all I can say is "Justwow". Instead of CA creating an option or a command to refresh the security profiles (that w

SMFxTME field

We just noticed our product was setting the SMFxTME field inappropriately using the TIME BIN macro. What should we be using to set the SMFxTME field? The doc says 06 06 SMFxTME4binary Time since midnight, in hundredths of

Re: SMFxTME field

On 2/20/2015 2:05 PM, Janet Graff wrote: We just noticed our product was setting the SMFxTME field inappropriately using the TIME BIN macro. What should we be using to set the SMFxTME field? The doc says 06 06 SMFxTME4binary Time since midnight, in

Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

In <54e78457.9000...@rochester.rr.com>, on 02/20/2015 at 02:00 PM, Thomas Conley said: >This is just one example of many. At CA, perhaps; I still have nightmates about CA service in RELFILE format. But how representative is CA of the entire industry? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysPr

Re: SMFxTME field

In <3495911068637390.wa.janet.graffyahoo@listserv.ua.edu>, on 02/20/2015 at 01:05 PM, Janet Graff <004dc9e91b6d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> said: >We just noticed our product was setting the SMFxTME field >inappropriately using the TIME BIN macro. Why inappropriately? It matches the

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 2/20/2015 at 11:28 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > >> ​ And I trust Linux hardware vendors more than those who get extra > >> money for installing "adware" and the like. > > > > I'm afraid this is the very same hardware. > > The problem he wa

Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

SETROPTS GENERIC REFRESH _might_ be of some help. I've not used it for CA-7 related profiles. ref: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ichza2c0/2.10.1.4 -- He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown

Re: SMFxTME field

TIME fills in the 4 words you passed to it with the time and date returned in various formats. You want to use BIN and use the first word for the time. Chris Blaicher Principal Software Engineer, Software Development Syncsort Incorporated 50 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 P: 201-930-82

Re: SMFxTME field

Works for me: * * Get time in hundredths as we want and date as 0ddd TIME BIN,TIMEWORK,DATETYPE=DDD, + LINKAGE=SYSTEM, + MF=(E,TIMEL) * * Move time where we want it MVC SMF

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

Paul Gilmartin wrote, re "all means all": >One might make a similar assertion about "ANY". But, in fact, "AMODE(ANY)" >doesn't >mean "ANY", and few complain. Yeah, I don't remember the exact context, but it was clearly inclusive, something as simple as "This command lists all files..." - that d

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

The full text was "This command lists all files that it lists." Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 12:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RCF vs. COMMENT (wa

Help with IBM Session Manager Prefix Command

Dear Session Manager Experts, On the main ISM menu I see a description for "My Appl". To the left is the number. From the command line on the bottom I can enter "35" to get to "My Appl". I can enter "S" as a prefix command to select 35/"My Appl". I am looking for documentation on what a

Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

Didn't :) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 11:34 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7 > > SETROPTS GENERIC REFRESH _might_ be of

DF/SORT JOINKEYS question.

I have a job stream that contains several relatively simple JOINKEYS steps. I need to expand the scope of this job by adding some input files and writing some specific constants in the output data. Specifically: 1. I would like to be able to JOIN more than 2 input files in a single job step.

Re: DF/SORT JOINKEYS question.

>>> 1. I would like to be able to JOIN more than 2 input files in a single job step. I'm currently doing this by using additional job steps. Tony, You can use ICETOOL to combine multiple Join operations into a single step. I would like to be able to write constants in the output file. The RE

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:57:22 -0700, Mark Post wrote: >The problem he was having isn't with the hardware, but what the >vendors layer on top of it. Since I wipe any system containing >Windows on it and install Linux, I don't really care much about that >aspect. There are problems with much of

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

On 20/02/2015 11:54 PM, John McKown wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Mark Post wrote: On 2/20/2015 at 08:32 AM, David Crayford wrote: Barbarian! Macs are beautiful. The product may be beautiful, but the company that produces it most certainly is not. Every time my wife brings up the