Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-17 Thread Bill Johnson
Multiply that by at least 100 in 1980. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, June 17, 2019, 11:39 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: A patent about 2003 stated 21,000 sites had at least one mainframe. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 3:06 AM Charles Mills wrote: > > Were there once 4 million mainframes? >

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-17 Thread Bill Johnson
I don’t know the exact number but when I started, my employer had 2 mainframes. One box was a NAS9000, for production, and the other was a smaller NAS (7750 comes to mind) for development. Just about every employer had a mainframe. Back then, there were more mainframes than PC’s. Green screen

Re: Is there any way to convert RECFM=U to RECFM=V with a utility or script?

2019-06-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Very interesting. Collapsing the two steps and eliminating the intermediate Unix file also works, but I do have explicit DCB information in the JCL for both SYSUT1 and SYSUT2, so maybe that's what makes the IEBGENER process work here. I had been told by the coworker who solicited my help that

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:06:23 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Were there once 4 million mainframes? > And were they z's? >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >Behalf Of Bill Johnson >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 2:08 PM >To:

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-17 Thread Mike Schwab
A patent about 2003 stated 21,000 sites had at least one mainframe. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 3:06 AM Charles Mills wrote: > > Were there once 4 million mainframes? > > Charles > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-17 Thread Charles Mills
Because you don't come to SHARE? Specifically, Chad Rikansrud's security keynote in March of 2017. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 1:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-17 Thread Charles Mills
Were there once 4 million mainframes? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 2:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"? IBM z was

Re: Is there any way to convert RECFM=U to RECFM=V with a utility or script?

2019-06-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:31:31 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >Finally got my mount issue straightened out and got to try your suggestion. >IDCAMS REPRO gave errors trying to copy to the Unix output file, but IEBGENER >worked just fine. > >This did not work: > >//STEP0100 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS

Re: Is there any way to convert RECFM=U to RECFM=V with a utility or script?

2019-06-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Finally got my mount issue straightened out and got to try your suggestion. IDCAMS REPRO gave errors trying to copy to the Unix output file, but IEBGENER worked just fine. This did not work: //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-17 Thread Bill Johnson
IBM z was more secure even when there were 1000 times more of them and a million times less MSFT platforms. Target was down again over the weekend. How many fools will blame the mainframe again? When it was their point of sale system again. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, June

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-17 Thread R.S.
Did they use z/OS? Or maybe Linux on PC? Not? Windows? What a surprise! BTW: I have heard many times about filese encrypted by ransomware. Why it's always Windows? Why the only file encryption on z/OS I ever heard is the encryption directed by administrator? Why? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz,

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2019-05-13 o 02:42, Phil Smith III pisze: Bill Johnson posted a couple more links to mainframe blog posts from a mainframe vendor-more asking the barber if you need a shave; but even ignoring that, you don't appear to have actually read the articles, Bill. The first one

Re: Volume compare utility

2019-06-17 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
We have been devoted fans and customers of TDMF since long before IBM acquired it. I stand in awe of its magical properties. But it is a bit clumsy when copying/moving thousands of volumes shared by many LPARs. The method we used this time was far more suited to our purpose. . . J.O.Skip

Re: Need for a z/OS "master index" (Was RE: LOAD/LINK exit) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-06-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
Why not IDCAMS? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jones, Phil <02379a6d81f2-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2019 7:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: VTOC reading

2019-06-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
> The relevant subroutine - XVTCREAD - uses a CCW chain to read an entire > track in a single EXCP, Wow! It must be really old. Ever since the 3350 we had Read Multiple Count Key Data. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM

Re: Volume compare utility

2019-06-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
"What" should have been "way" ! Jerry Whitteridge Delivery Manager / Mainframe Architect GTS - Safeway Account 602 527 4871 Mobile jerry.whitteri...@ibm.com IBM Services IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 06/17/2019 08:29:34 AM: > From: Jerry Whitteridge > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >

Re: Volume compare utility

2019-06-17 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
In the (distant) past we've been able to get a temporary license from the vendor of the target disk for TDMF as part of the deal - might be one what of you getting a portion of your bridge. Jerry Whitteridge Delivery Manager / Mainframe Architect GTS - Safeway Account 602 527 4871 Mobile

Re: VTOC reading

2019-06-17 Thread Greg Price
On 2019-06-14 7:58 AM, Mike Shaw wrote: CVAF is much slower than BSAM, alphabetical order or not. EXCP with chained CCWs is much faster, then just sort the DSNs yourself. In the "LOAD/LINK exit" thread, Graeme mentioned the products named Dorana and SoftAudit. SoftAudit was from Isogon (who

Re: honorpriority=no in WLM

2019-06-17 Thread Horst Sinram
Duncan, why do you believe that HonorPriority=No could help? You will only be confining work to the already potentially overloaded zIIPs by disallowing help from the CPs. So, HonorPriority=No can only make things worse. I assume that you don't want to go so far and configure all zIIPs offline