Re: OT: AMD Eypc processor -- RAM encrypt/decrypt built in

2018-05-28 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:29:14AM -0500, John McKown wrote: > This is interesting. Reminds me a bit of IBM's newest "Pervasive > Encryption". > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/20/amd_epyc_launch/ > [...] > > You simply cannot effectively read one VM's memory contents from a > different

Re: How to get BPX loadhfs (BPX1LOD) to load module into writable memory?

2018-05-28 Thread Peter Relson
Allowing reentrant programs to be writable for fetches from non-APF-authorized data sets / concatenations was something that had to be maintained for compatibility, but was not felt to have sufficient justification to accommodate for "new cases". "New cases" include loads via BPX1LOD and loads

Re: empty KSDS behavior - why?

2018-05-28 Thread Charles Mills
Exactly. Presumably less overhead to just set the pointer (or whatever) rather than actually loading and deleting a record. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2018 10:38 PM

Re: Performance impact of using DFSMS's Data Set Separation feature?

2018-05-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2018-05-28 o 12:16, Peter Hunkeler pisze: I've been asked by my storage colleagues if I knew the impact of using DFSMS's Data Set Separation feature. I don't. Does anyone used it? Any pros and cons to share? While the number of data sets to keep separated is low, SMS will still need

Performance impact of using DFSMS's Data Set Separation feature?

2018-05-28 Thread Peter Hunkeler
I've been asked by my storage colleagues if I knew the impact of using DFSMS's Data Set Separation feature. I don't. Does anyone used it? Any pros and cons to share? While the number of data sets to keep separated is low, SMS will still need to search the list for *every* new allocation. How

Re: empty KSDS behavior - why?

2018-05-28 Thread Edward Gould
> On May 28, 2018, at 12:38 AM, Paul Gilmartin > <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > No, no! The suggestion was that it should automagically add one record, > *then*delete*it*. > (Others have said this suffices.) Or, in a shortcut initialize the data set > in such a