Re: z/OS and LPAR limits

2021-04-15 Thread Attila Fogarasi
Take a look at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=requirements-processor-storage-amount On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 8:37 PM Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > I'm trying to arrange my knowledge about CPU and RAM limits. > > Example: current z/OS has limit up to 4 TB of memory. Older versions >

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
>> - Holddata are ftp-Links only. And I want to download holddata without >> ordering anything via ShopZ. >Not true. You want the IBM HOLDDATA without using FTP? Use SMP/E >RECEIVE ORDER and indicate downloadmethod="https". We have never used that here, so I'll check into it when IE goes away.

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Gibney, Dave
Really, what is the security risk of FTPS? I know it seems to be increasingly considered a problem, but why? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2021 8:03 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re:

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Seymour J Metz
Wouldn't it make more sense to ask IBM to provide SFTP-SSH servers rather than FTP servers, given the concern with security? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

2021-04-15 Thread David Crayford
Compared to IBMs new doc site Adobe is a work of art! > On 15 Apr 2021, at 10:57 am, kekronbekron > <02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >  >> >>> Adobe is phenomenally bloated for just reading PDFs. >> >> "just"? Does it do nothing else? > > > Sorry, I could have

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Been a long time since my site locked us out of ftp:// from a browser, a hard fight I fought but seeing I am allowed to use https via z/OS and can receive all holddata in a batch job the ability to ftp from the browser is not a issue for me.     Carmen Vitullo -Original

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 07:56:14 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: >>Anyone else having trouble downloading this zip file? >> >>ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/alert/PTFList.zip > >another ftp-Link from IBM. My company hat decided that ftp is globally >forbidden, ... > Has Kurt Q. any comment

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-15 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:34:58 +, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote: >Hi Mark! > > > >In this notification and the one below, IBM makes no distinction between >RECEIVE methods. Under normal circumstances, I use RECEIVE ORDER on a daily >basis. I did get the following notification from IBM's

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Bill Johnson
Been using it for at least 30 years. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, April 15, 2021, 10:39 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: IMHO it's legitimate to make an on topic reference to your products in response to a post. That's not the same as spamming the list. I wonder how many

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Seymour J Metz
IMHO it's legitimate to make an on topic reference to your products in response to a post. That's not the same as spamming the list. I wonder how many subscribers are not already aware of QuickRef? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-15 Thread Doug Henry
We did save our ptfs that were received during this time (41 ptfs) of which 9 were applied. This maintenance was on multiple systems spread over 3 sysplexs. That made doing reapply's not a very desirable idea. We rejected the 41 ptfs and received them again. Then we used GIMCPTS to expand both

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Seymour J Metz
It is common for nannyware to block legitimate sites while allowing access to sites that you'd rather your children not view. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on

RES: Old 3278 terminal

2021-04-15 Thread Bodra - Pessoal
Maybe Computer Museum have it. Carlos Bodra IBM zEnterprise Certified São Paulo – SP – Brazil -Mensagem original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Em nome de W Mainframe Enviada em: quinta-feira, 15 de abril de 2021 11:11 Para: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Assunto: Old 3278 terminal

Old 3278 terminal

2021-04-15 Thread W Mainframe
Guys,Does anyone in Brazil have an old 3278 terminal (running) for donation or selling?Thank youDan Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Ramsey Hallman
I truly hesitate to offer replies like this, but occasionally it seems appropriate to potentially resolve an issue. There is a company, Chicago-Soft, Ltd, for which I work, who offers a product MVS/QuickRef. QuickRef, among other things (and there are many more), contains tons of documentation

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 08:59:26 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: >> - Holddata are ftp-Links only. And I want to download holddata without >> ordering anything via ShopZ. >Not true. You want the IBM HOLDDATA without using FTP? Use SMP/E >RECEIVE ORDER and indicate downloadmethod="https". > Wrong!

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
+1 I use HTTPS method weekly in a batch job to receive HOLDDATA only. at my site, from the mainframe systems that's the only method that is allowed. I have the sample JCL that IBM provided years ago to do this, easily found on the IBM site     Carmen Vitullo -Original

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
- Holddata are ftp-Links only. And I want to download holddata without ordering anything via ShopZ. Not true. You want the IBM HOLDDATA without using FTP? Use SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER and indicate downloadmethod="https". Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development Chuck Norris never uses CHECK

RACF Downloads website question

2021-04-15 Thread Steven Charles Doonan
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RACF Downloads website question

2021-04-15 Thread Steven Charles Doonan
 Hello RACF Administrators, I was hoping that someone could confirm if the website below is what should be used to download the RACF utility load modules? https://github.com/IBM/IBM-Z-zOS/tree/master/zOS-RACF/Downloads The z/OS V2R3 Security Server RACF System Programmer's Guide references

z/OS and LPAR limits

2021-04-15 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
I'm trying to arrange my knowledge about CPU and RAM limits. Example: current z/OS has limit up to 4 TB of memory. Older versions (down to 1.8) also had that limit, but older machines had limit for LPAR memory - up to 1 TB. This time it is not so easy to say what generation, because LPAR

Re: FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
While I agree ftp links should be changed to https, I would remind a browser is not necessary to use ftp, it's really easy to circumvent it. In Windows system there is something called cmd.exe or CLI and there is a command named ftp. Of course the link need to be pasted here, but it is quite

FTP-Links in IBM Websites and PTFs

2021-04-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
>We have ftp blocked at the corporate level. Has anyone found an HTTPS link to >download this file? I used 'Contact IBM' at the bottom to inquire but not >optimistic. You're not the only one. Now that the 'modern browsers' don't support ftp in websites anymore, I wonder if IBM will wake up