Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

Off on a tangent now? :-) Wazi happens to be the Swahili word for open. Conveniently it happens to have the voiced letter Z in it. https://www.ibm.com/products/wazi-developer - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE -

Re: Holy Moly ...

Again, cash flow can be positive OR NEGATIVE. Profits are what drives stock prices, executive compensation, and investment. Revenue drives SOME stocks, mostly newer ones, who invest big for future profits. Which generates negative cash flow until they reach profitability stage and growth (and in

Re: Holy Moly ...

IMHO, having to look something up in the manual is just a routine part of the job -- not something to apologize for. I remember starting a contract for an insurance company in Ohio and being told, after I'd been there a month or two, that what got me hired was that during the interview I said "

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That's heartening news. My impression, just from hearing loose talk, is that at least 50% of the developers I know learned one language (mostly COBOL in the shops where I worked) and didn't care to learn anything else, or in some cases didn't think they could. I'm with you, Shmuel; learning a new

Re: Holy Moly ...

Hi John, Good thing you're not RUSTy. Regards, David On 2022-02-15 21:47, John McKown wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 8:34 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: While it's certainly not impossible, it's certainly very difficult to retrain a HLASM programmer to Java, Python, Javascript etc. It's not beca

Re: Holy Moly ...

Learning the parts of a language that you need is a sound strategy; it is, of course, crucial that you learn where to look things up as you hit new requirements. That's especially true when you include packages in, e.g., CPAN. Certainly for Java, Perl and Python it would be ludicrous to try lear

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That's a non sequitur. You've just proven my point. Actions taken to improve profits take a long time to have the desired effect. Stock prices are driven by what happens in the near term. That's cash flow, not profits. Most top level executives seek to maximize their compensation, even if that

Re: Holy Moly ...

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 8:34 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > While it's certainly not impossible, it's certainly very difficult to > retrain a > > HLASM programmer to Java, Python, Javascript etc. It's not because > > they're not smart enough, they just don't want to. > > I've always expected progra

Re: Holy Moly ...

> While it's certainly not impossible, it's certainly very difficult to retrain > a > HLASM programmer to Java, Python, Javascript etc. It's not because > they're not smart enough, they just don't want to. I've always expected programmers to learn new languages as needed, and for me it's recreat

Re: Holy Moly ...

I'm on StackOverflow, but mostly for LaTeX issues. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Matt Hogstrom [m...@hogstrom.org] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2022 3:31

Re: Fwd: Log4j hearing: 'Open source is not the problem'

On 16/2/22 4:04 am, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: W dniu 14.02.2022 o 20:58, David Crayford pisze: On 15/2/22 3:48 am, Phil Smith III wrote: While clearly closed source is no more likely to be randomly secure than open source, the fact that the source is available for open source (by definition!) d

Re: Definition of z/OS SYSRES volume

The sysres volume is the volume containing SYS1.NUCLEUS and that you IPL from . I'm not sure whether it would be confusing or helpful to draw analogies with specific Linux directories, e.g., /bin, /sbin. There are other important volumes needed in the IPL process, e.g., IODF, master catalog, pa

Re: Holy Moly ...

Ouch! I hope your leg healed well. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) [01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Tuesd

Re: Log4j hearing: 'Open source is not the problem'

That is a nice sentiment but my experience in open source is that in-depth security evaluation is not done that frequently; it should be but sadly it is not. Log4j has been sitting there for a while and even though people saw the ability to execute remote code locally it didn’t have an aha mo

Re: Fwd: Log4j hearing: 'Open source is not the problem'

W dniu 14.02.2022 o 20:58, David Crayford pisze: On 15/2/22 3:48 am, Phil Smith III wrote: While clearly closed source is no more likely to be randomly secure than open source, the fact that the source is available for open source (by definition!) does perhaps change the equation a bit. The ques

Re: ICSF - crypto # to PCHID relationship

W dniu 14.02.2022 o 19:25, Eric D Rossman pisze: Radoslaw Skorupka wrote on 02/11/2022 at 06:21 AM: Every CryptoExpress engine has two identifiers: PCHID and number used in ICSF panels. Both identifiers can be seen in SE. PCHID number is not available in ICSF (why???) However I'm wondering how

Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

The UK used to have the impolite term Kazi where you go to do your business. Perhaps this was misheard. Is this Wahahaha zi ( drop the jaw) or W aaa zi - wide mouth?( sounds like WAS)( or baby crying) On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 18:59, Mohammad Khan wrote: > Well, it's the same people who changed

Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

Probably the Dino-babies are responsible for this. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mohammad Khan Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS [External

Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

Well, it's the same people who changed "DB2" to "Db2" very likely spending small fortune probably because that's the change that customers needed most. It's good to be a king :) MKK On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 11:43:19 -0500, zMan wrote: >WTF is a WAZI, beyond what Urban Dictionary suggests: > >Srsly

IKE negotiation failure --- and how to correct it?

I am in a weeks long battle involving documentation, error messages, and Network Configuration Assistant for the Communication Server, and z/OSMF. The history is long and painfully tedious. This latest skirmish is similar in form to all of my travails so far, so here goes: Error messages in th

Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

It's the plural of wazoo. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 8:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

WTF is a WAZI, beyond what Urban Dictionary suggests: A popular slang term originating from kenya which is used to show dissatisfaction and disbelief

Re: Where is the DFPISMKD utility to run the DFPMKDIR EXEC?

Barbara, Thanks for the clarification and heads-up. I haven't placed my z/OS 2.5 order just yet but will soon. I'll be on the lookout for UJ05895 when I lay the system down. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz Sent: Tuesday, February 1

Re: Where is the DFPISMKD utility to run the DFPMKDIR EXEC?

>I encountered this issue while applying maintenance to z/OS 2.4.I opened a >ticket to IBM, and found that there is another PTF, OA60532(UJ05094), which >needs to be applied first, so that the stuff needed for DFPISMKD to run the >proper DFPMKDIR appears in SYS1.SAMPLIB. > >Following this p

IBM Cloud to offer Z-series mainframes for first time

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/15/ibm_cloud_to_offer_cloudy/ DJ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS file level encryption for Nacha Requirements

I'll pile onto Lennie and Timothy's messages. I'm the author of the ICSF and SAF parts of dataset encryption and one of the authors of the mentioned redbook and I know that some of the other authors are on the list, so we will happily get you answers. Eric Rossman, CISSP® ICSF Cryptographic Sec

SLES15 SP3 Quarterly Update Images (QU2) released

Cross-posted to Linux-390, IBMVM, and IBM-Main All, SUSE has announced the release of the second quarterly update (QU2) images of SLES15 SP3. Quarterly Updates are refreshed ISOs based on GA and contain the last released updates. These updated ISOs are released every 3 months. While s390x is

Re: Holy Moly ...

mån 2022-02-14 klockan 16:19 -0500 skrev Matt Hogstrom: > there is always RetroComputing as well … they love nostalgic > questions > > https://stackoverflow.com/  > https://superuser.com/  > https://serverfault.com/  >

Re: UIDs on the SDSF PS command

>> Also BPXEKDA is not a service I had seen before. Looks useful. The one main reason why SDSF originally used this service, rather than BPX1GTH, was that you do not have to have an OMVS segment to call it. It does have limitations, especially with the longer fields (command path etc). Rob Scot

Re: Definition of z/OS SYSRES volume

Fair, I thought you were looking for a way to explain in an educational context rather than a precise definition. I find that in introducing new people to Z its better to relate to known ideas and progressively explore the details. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org “To

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Sad to hear of your medical issues Bob, but what a great outlook. I think I'd prolly feel the same way if the current company I worked for would would stop following politics, NUF said. even if I cannot retire fully, I plan on retiring next Jan, 10 months, 26 days :) personally I cannot tak

Re: Definition of z/OS SYSRES volume

corrected - BOOTSTRAP :( On 2/15/2022 7:09 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: all the answers are great, the LOAD address on the HMC, the DASD volume used to IPL, and I'd add the volume that you initialize using ICKDSF to load the BOOTSTRAP, it contains the NIP, no pun intended, NUC INITIAL PROGRAM, II

Re: Definition of z/OS SYSRES volume

all the answers are great, the LOAD address on the HMC, the DASD volume used to IPL, and I'd add the volume that you initialize using ICKDSF to load the BOTTSTRAP, it contains the NIP, no pun intended, NUC INITIAL PROGRAM, IIRC, that create the initial address space to load the operating system

Re: UIDs on the SDSF PS command

Rob, Colin, Many thanks for the input. It was the FLDENT value in ISFPRM00. I have corrected the ISFPRM00 now and will look to remove the FLDENT values in future. This will prove to be a real boon in my current task. I am working to reduce the use of UID(0) and document the reasons for all the

Re: Where is the DFPISMKD utility to run the DFPMKDIR EXEC?

I encountered this issue while applying maintenance to z/OS 2.4.I opened a ticket to IBM, and found that there is another PTF, OA60532(UJ05094), which needs to be applied first, so that the stuff needed for DFPISMKD to run the proper DFPMKDIR appears in SYS1.SAMPLIB. Following this path wo

Re: Holy Moly ...

Patrick, I broke two bones in my right leg right below my knee on Thanksgiving 2019. That gave me a four month head start on teleworking compared to the rest of you. It also changed my outlook about retiring. No more issues with the commute, no getting up at 3:30am to beat the heavy commute tra

Re: UIDs on the SDSF PS command

To avoid issues like this, we (SDSF) recommend that you run without FLD/FLDENTs in ISFPRMxx. This will prevent cases where new columns do not show in existing displays and also minimizes any migration and toleration effort with a new release of z/OS. Note that FLD/FLDENT statement origins pre-d

Re: UIDs on the SDSF PS command

Lennie SDSF uses the BPXEKDA callable service to gather this information and we just copy the RUID and EUID numbers into the display - that is to say we don't do anything "smart" to get this data. It could be that there is an environmental reason preventing these numbers from being returned. A

Re: UIDs on the SDSF PS command

The ADCD.Z24C.PARMLIB(ISFPRM00) is backlevel. I copied it to user.z24c.parmlib(ISFPRM*CP*) edited it FLD NAME(PSFLDS) TYPE(PS) FLDENT COLUMN(JOBID),TITLE('JobID'),WIDTH(D) FLDENT COLUMN(STATUS),TITLE('Status'),WIDTH(D) FLDENT COLUMN(OWNERID),TITLE('Owner'),WIDTH(D) * FLDENT COLUMN(RUID),T

UIDs on the SDSF PS command

I have a zPDT running z/OS 2.4 (latest available from IBM I think). I have seen that other systems can run the PS command on SDSF and see the Real and Effective UIDs for each process. I cannot see that on my zPDT system. Can anyone tell me what PTF I need for this please? Thanks, Lennie Dymoke-Bra