The big one in that is the Australian Federal Government's CentreLink. They are
attempting to replace a mainframe-based solution with a SAP solution.
The then Federal Treasurer, the esteemed Mr. Joe Hocking (now out on his arse
after we got a new Prime Minister), claimed it was because the appli
On 26 Sep 2015 15:22:33 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>Charles,
>
>I read the article, I said "what does COBOL have to do with Security"?
Probably nothing but if the applications predate the major interest in
security, they may not have the proper security checking. I would have
to k
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes:
> "... the OPM is facing a huge problem with modernizing its security measures
> and tactics because of one acronym: COBOL. The programming language that
> rose to prominence in the 1960s is rampant throughout the OPM and with the
> advanced persistent threa
In <769b2e18f7b2fa48b3adea85570a2876c11ac...@mtl-hq-x01.cn.ca>, on
09/25/2015
at 08:41 PM, Leonardo Vaz said:
>That means I would have to use SWAREQ to actually get from TIOEJFCB
>to JFCBDSNM, right?
No; IBM recommends using OPEN TYPE=J; I never understood why, since
SWAREQ seems to work.
Do
Charles,
I would think we need some leverage like you mentioned in Share. I haven't
be fortunate enough to go. It was obvious that the CIO they spoke of had an
axe to grind and didn't know what she was speaking about.
Regards,
Scott
On Saturday, September 26, 2015, Charles Mills wrote:
> A l
A lot now -- in peoples' minds -- after they read articles like that.
Who would like to help save the systems that we love and the jobs that we need
by helping to set these writers straight?
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
Charles,
I read the article, I said "what does COBOL have to do with Security"?
Scott
On Saturday, September 26, 2015, Charles Mills wrote:
> "... the OPM is facing a huge problem with modernizing its security
> measures
> and tactics because of one acronym: COBOL. The programming language tha
"... the OPM is facing a huge problem with modernizing its security measures
and tactics because of one acronym: COBOL. The programming language that
rose to prominence in the 1960s is rampant throughout the OPM and with the
advanced persistent threats federal agencies are experiencing, it's a
sign
Cipher Feedack Mode in the hardware was introduced with MSA-4 which came with
the z196/z114 machines. That means that these machines (and later) support new
assembler instructions that prefrom chaining operations: KMF (Cipher Message
with CFB (Cipher Feedback Mode)), KMCTR (Cipher Message with
