Re: Fwd: Cyber-Heist That Impacted Millions Bankrupts Medical Debt Collector (Mainframe related)

2019-06-18 Thread Peter
Still some manager wants the taste of cloud. I remember one of the Indian company who were supporting a ISV. One of their VP wanted to get rid of Mainframe and invest more on cloud...(atlast that company got sold) On Wed, 19 Jun, 2019, 7:51 AM Paul Gilmartin, <

Re: Fwd: Cyber-Heist That Impacted Millions Bankrupts Medical Debt Collector (Mainframe related)

2019-06-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:35:53 +, Bill Johnson wrote: >I would only trust the cloud (and suppliers) with my music and photos. My >financial stuff is on the mainframe. > Who's paying for that? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Fwd: Cyber-Heist That Impacted Millions Bankrupts Medical Debt Collector (Mainframe related)

2019-06-18 Thread Bill Johnson
I would only trust the cloud (and suppliers) with my music and photos. My financial stuff is on the mainframe. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, 8:25 PM, Mark Regan wrote: >From the article: ... Fuchs said the company, which he founded in 1977, originally had its

Fwd: Cyber-Heist That Impacted Millions Bankrupts Medical Debt Collector (Mainframe related)

2019-06-18 Thread Mark Regan
>From the article: ... Fuchs said the company, which he founded in 1977, originally had its own IBM mainframe that served AMCA’s purposes “well for many years.” But changes in technology (most notably, the shift to cloud computing) made it clear, he said, that continued reliance on the office

Re: Page/Alert notifications from z/os [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-06-18 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
We use OPS/MVS to send SNMP to our BMC ESM (Truesight) solution which then does the opening of Service now tickets. 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

Re: Page/Alert notifications from z/os [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-06-18 Thread Jones, Phil
Who has taken the whole process a step further by raising problem tickets, sending alerts to "Single Pane of Glass" (for example)? I'm especially interested to hear if anyone is using TBSM... Regards; Phil -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs

Re: Page/Alert notifications from z/os

2019-06-18 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi, FWIW, we use OPS/MVS facilities for this. Not sure if other automation packages have that functionality. Thanks! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 12:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Page/Alert notifications from z/os

2019-06-18 Thread Edgington, Jerry
If you have an automation product or something that can send emails externally, then something like opsgenie works nicely. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 2:56 PM To:

Re: Page/Alert notifications from z/os

2019-06-18 Thread Mark Jacobs
Yes. Your automation product, in concert with your production scheduling system should be able to send emails to any interested party and their cellphones. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key -

Re: honorpriority=no in WLM

2019-06-18 Thread Brown, Duncan
I'm guessing by the responses that not too many shops are using this WLM feature. I'm not sure why you would use this approach and not just use the 'normal' controls that we have in WLM and let the dispatcher do its job. I understand that reducing the R4HR is a good thing and preventing any

Page/Alert notifications from z/os

2019-06-18 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Curious what people are using, if they are anymore, to send pages/text's/notifications/etc. from z/os to people on call. The software we have been using runs on a Windows 7 box, which I need to get rid of and/or replace. Rather than continue what we have been doing for 25 years, curious as

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

2019-06-18 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
No they are not terminated with CR or LF or anything. They are just different length records with no length prefix or any suffix at all in a RECFM=U file. I was the one who suspected that the original source file from the vendor was from Unix somewhere due to the content. Goal here was to get

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

2019-06-18 Thread scott Ford
Peter, I was scanning through this thread. It sounds like the records are terminated with a 'CR' or 'CRLF' , i.e.; x'0d' or x'0d0a' , is this correct Scott On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 10:14 AM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:43:18

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

2019-06-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:43:18 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >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

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-18 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
014ab5cdfb21-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Mike Wawiorko) writes: > Remember back in 1980 there was no sysplex. Each machine was a > stand-alone system with a single operating system - if we ignore VM > guests. > > There was a proliferation of 4341s, 4361s(?), 4381s and even a bit > later

Re: honorpriority=no in WLM

2019-06-18 Thread Scott Chapman
True, relative to the zIIP workload. But if that zIIP workload is relatively low importance and crossing over to the GCPs and raising your R4HA, it may make sense to restrict the low importance work instead of increasing the R4HA, depending on what your business requirements are. And keeping

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-18 Thread Mike Wawiorko
Remember back in 1980 there was no sysplex. Each machine was a stand-alone system with a single operating system - if we ignore VM guests. There was a proliferation of 4341s, 4361s(?), 4381s and even a bit later 9370s running MVS. OS/VS1, OS/VS2, VM, DOS (the mainframe one not the PC one), TPF

Call for papers for GSE-UK Network Stream

2019-06-18 Thread Aileen Wynne
Annual GSE UK Conference 2019 - 5th, 6th and 7th November 2018 It is a pleasure to invite you to submit a user presentation for the 2019 Network Stream at the GSE Annual conference. The conference is organized by GSE UK and will take place at Whittlebury Hall on the 5th, 6th and 7th November