VM Workshop 2021 Presentations Available on YouTube

2021-06-21 Thread Timothy Sipples
The 2021 VM Workshop assembled virtually on June 10 and 11, and the presentations are now available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwHDyL91yiybsY71dwQpveg/videos There are presentations covering z/VM, Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE, and z/VSE. The 2020 presentations are also

Re: [External] Re: z/OS SYSVAR looks weird

2021-06-21 Thread Tom Conley
On 6/21/2021 6:18 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: Tom, I agree with you that I think it was a rather bone-headed move on their part - although maybe they have some other reason that they haven't divulged - but I doubt they'll fix it since they documented that this is the way it is. Nonetheless,

Re: [External] Re: z/OS SYSVAR looks weird

2021-06-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Tom, I agree with you that I think it was a rather bone-headed move on their part - although maybe they have some other reason that they haven't divulged - but I doubt they'll fix it since they documented that this is the way it is. Nonetheless, I'll send in a request for them to fix it along

Re: z/OS SYSVAR looks weird

2021-06-21 Thread Charles Mills
Lowest common denominator. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Conley Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 2:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS SYSVAR looks weird On 6/21/2021 5:35 PM, Charles Mills

Re: z/OS SYSVAR looks weird

2021-06-21 Thread Tom Conley
On 6/21/2021 5:35 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Did you read the doc? They are concerned because 77A0 will character compare low to 7790 and mess up peoples' logic. Seems to me if you do character compares on hex data you get what you deserve, but I don't make up the rules. Charles Charles, So

Re: z/OS SYSVAR looks weird

2021-06-21 Thread Charles Mills
Did you read the doc? They are concerned because 77A0 will character compare low to 7790 and mess up peoples' logic. Seems to me if you do character compares on hex data you get what you deserve, but I don't make up the rules. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
When someone ports OOREXX to z/OS and adds TSO support. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2021

New versions of IPGATE and RXSCKET

2021-06-21 Thread Dave Jones
Greetings, all. (This message will be of interest to the z/VM community, but I am posting here for completeness.) Just in time for the first full day of summer, 2021 (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), there are now new versions of both IP{GATE and RXSOCKET. The highlights of there new

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-21 Thread Alan Altmark
On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 09:03:13 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >(where does "EXTERNAL:" in the Subject: come from? >Can it be suppressed?) I can't speak for others, of course, but within IBM, our mail gateways now tag all of our external e-mail with "[EXTERNAL]". This was an intentional change to

Re: z/OS SYSVAR looks weird

2021-06-21 Thread Tom Conley
On 6/21/2021 12:50 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: Hey all, Running z/OS 2.4 with RACF 2.4 - FMID HRF77C0. When I do a SYSVAR of SYSLRACF, I get a result of RACF version is 7791. Is this right or is the SYSVAR giving me outdated information? It just doesn't look correct. It's also giving me a

Re: [External] Re: z/OS SYSVAR looks weird

2021-06-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Thank you, Eric. I thought it might be something like this but good to see a good explanation of it. I'll forward the info along to the person who asked me. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric D Rossman Sent: Monday, June 21, 2021 11:59 AM

Re: z/OS SYSVAR looks weird

2021-06-21 Thread Eric D Rossman
As of V2R2 (HRF77A0), SYSLRACF is frozen at 7791. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/anthony-giorgio2/2020/04/02/sharing-some-changes-in-zos-v2r2-before-you-find-it-from-professor-kimura Eric Rossman, CISSP® ICSF Cryptographic Security Development z/OS Enabling

z/OS SYSVAR looks weird

2021-06-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hey all, Running z/OS 2.4 with RACF 2.4 - FMID HRF77C0. When I do a SYSVAR of SYSLRACF, I get a result of RACF version is 7791. Is this right or is the SYSVAR giving me outdated information? It just doesn't look correct. It's also giving me a SYSTSOE version of 4040 which looks

Re: Java 8 (latest!) and TLSv1.3 - anyone got it working?

2021-06-21 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 6/21/2021 4:52 AM, Allan Staller wrote: Classification: Confidential ... but in 2019 Oracle also changed it's licensing such that the Oracle Java no longer free for commercial use ... *** omitted tet *** ...Now why it's taken IBM >2 years to support Java 11, I don't know. Probably they

Re: Java 8 (latest!) and TLSv1.3 - anyone got it working?

2021-06-21 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential ... but in 2019 Oracle also changed it's licensing such that the Oracle Java no longer free for commercial use ... *** omitted tet *** ...Now why it's taken IBM >2 years to support Java 11, I don't know. Probably they don’t want to pay the bill -Original

Re: EXTERNAL: Coding for the future

2021-06-21 Thread David Crayford
On 19/06/2021 12:23 am, Tom Brennan wrote: Side track to logic blocks: I like matching up indentations on the do/end instead of if/end.  And the same in C-style languages such as:   if (something == 10)    {     run some stuff;     run more stuff;    } This is referred to as Allman brace