DS8000 Simulator

2019-05-11 Thread Peter
Hi Is there a simulator version for DS8K ? I want to download and for self learning. Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-11 Thread Mike Schwab
The big thing is the Business oriented compilers / instructions with accuracies to the penny. Lots of compilers don't have lots of fix point numbers with large numbers of digits. Sometimes it takes 2-3X as long as expected due to having to get the math instructions just right. Plus the open syst

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-11 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/11/19 8:14 PM, Charles Mills wrote: The mainframe seems to me to have also some "architectural" advantages. It's my understanding that the mainframe has security related features in the hardware that some other architectures lack. It seems to support a denser "clustering." Please ela

Re: LU name and RACF ID is SMF records

2019-05-11 Thread Charles Mills
> I don't think IP addresses end up in the type 80s, though They do not. In really, really pursuing this I found IP addresses incredibly hard to audit anywhere downstream from the TN3270 mapping to an LU name. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-11 Thread Charles Mills
+1, all around: the fandom, the years, and the logical points. The mainframe seems to me to have also some "architectural" advantages. It seems to support a denser "clustering." It does not seem to me that there is anything in the Windows/Linux world that duplicates the advantages of 100 or so ver

Re: Can backup mechanisms be used to steal RACF database? was Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-11 Thread Charles Mills
Passphrases and MFA! Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Rowley Sent: Friday, May 10, 2019 6:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can backup mechanisms be used to steal RACF database? was Re: ma

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-11 Thread Phil Smith III
You know, I'm as big a fan of the mainframe as anyone. I've used mainframes for at least 45 of my 58 years on this planet, have made my living off them for almost 40 of those, and continue to do so. But the articles Bill Johnson is citing as proof that the mainframe is so superior to other p

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 11 May 2019 13:40:26 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >>> >>Aren't the attributes of the data set being edited available by: >>►► ISREDIT (var1,var2) = RECFM►◄ >>►► ISREDIT (varname) = LRECL ►◄ >>? >>I believe I've used these for a subsequent allocation of INTRDR to match my >>J

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 11 May 2019 14:24:50 -0500, Lionel B Dyck wrote: >Why not when using TSO %IPLINFO EDIT, from the ISPF Edit command line, enter >CREATE and specify C9 on the 1st line. Then follow the prompts as to where >to put the data, or create a new data set using the prompts. > Lionel, go back

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Lionel B Dyck
Why not when using TSO %IPLINFO EDIT, from the ISPF Edit command line, enter CREATE and specify C9 on the 1st line. Then follow the prompts as to where to put the data, or create a new data set using the prompts. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your c

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 11 May 2019 13:24:22 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Sat, 11 May 2019 05:13:12 -0400, Mike Stramba wrote: >> ... >>I then get (top right corner in ispfedit / IPLINFOP 'Data set >>not cataloged' >> >>F1 : gives >> >>'SYS19131.T040928.RA000.Z33854.R0114135' was not found in catalog.

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mark Zelden
Mike Stramba wants the output of IPLINFO. I added the "EDIT" option to put you in edit mode instead of browse years ago because I used to get a lot of questions / personal emails about saving the output. This was the first one about that in a long time. As I wrote previously, I used to just use

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 11 May 2019 05:13:12 -0400, Mike Stramba wrote: > ... >I then get (top right corner in ispfedit / IPLINFOP 'Data set >not cataloged' > >F1 : gives > >'SYS19131.T040928.RA000.Z33854.R0114135' was not found in catalog. > Aren't the attributes of the data set being edited available by:

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mike Schwab
That would copy the PDS member. On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 12:59 PM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Sat, 11 May 2019 12:02:11 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >With those details, then I would issue > >EDIT 'me.CLIST(IPLINFO)' (or using 3.4), then while edit

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 11 May 2019 12:02:11 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >With those details, then I would issue >EDIT 'me.CLIST(IPLINFO)' (or using 3.4), then while editing: >COPY 'me.CBT434(IPLINFO)' >SAVE > Is that saving a copy of the script or of its output? Which did Mike want? >> On Sat, 11 May 2019 05:13:

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mike Schwab
With those details, then I would issue EDIT 'me.CLIST(IPLINFO)' (or using 3.4), then while editing: COPY 'me.CBT434(IPLINFO)' SAVE On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 11:41 AM Mark Zelden wrote: > > On Sat, 11 May 2019 05:13:12 -0400, Mike Stramba > wrote: > > >I've been using Mark Zelden's IPLINFO rexx s

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 11 May 2019 05:13:12 -0400, Mike Stramba wrote: >I've been using Mark Zelden's IPLINFO rexx script from CBT 434 on both a z/os >1.10 and z/os 2.3 system. > >What is the procedure to save an 'edit' option set ? > >I issue ex 'me.cbt434(iplinfo)' 'all edit', the "editor" starts up. >(a

Re: Invalid links from IBM Granular APAR search website ?

2019-05-11 Thread Mario Bezzi
For those who may be interested, it looks like the subject issue has been fixed. Thank you IBM! mario Mario Bezzi Watson and Walker watsonwalker.com On 4/23/19 12:16 AM, Mario Bezzi wrote: On 4/22/19 5:27 PM, Alan Staller wrote: Looks like a database update timing issue. I had the same prob

iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mike Stramba
I've been using Mark Zelden's IPLINFO rexx script from CBT 434 on both a z/os 1.10 and z/os 2.3 system. What is the procedure to save an 'edit' option set ? I issue ex 'me.cbt434(iplinfo)' 'all edit', the "editor" starts up. (actually PANELID - 'IPLINFOP' I then use 'cc' line commands at