Re: Use of zCX

2022-04-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/4/22 11:37, kekronbekron wrote: What about code that does CPU instruction set specific things. How likely is the success of its compilation on s390x with minimal work. About 100% likely. Linux is Linux is Linux. IBM have ported all the compiler tool-chains such a GCC, LLVM/Clang etc. In

Re: Use of zCX

2022-04-24 Thread kekronbekron
Okay, maybe I'm mixing things up. So 'tainers are doable, assuming the program can first compile to s390x? What about code that does CPU instruction set specific things. How likely is the success of its compilation on s390x with minimal work. If it's "easy", why is the IBM Z and LinuxOne Open

Re: Use of zCX

2022-04-24 Thread David Crayford
On 23/4/22 14:10, kekronbekron wrote: Building the s390x containers is straight forward. Again, really? (honest question). Are there any public examples for reference? You know, small enough that it isn't 50 million lines of code or something. I don't want to speak for Matt but building

Re: help with abend 60D reason code 14 SDWALSLV value

2022-04-24 Thread Joseph Reichman
That’s what threw my off it didn’t abend in the routine with bakr/pr It abended in in the IARV64 And I missed this note • When retry is from an FRR, the value can reflect entries caused by a PC instruction. All other times, the value can reflect only entries caused by a BAKR FRR (since I

Re: help with abend 60D reason code 14 SDWALSLV value

2022-04-24 Thread Joe Monk
The 60D / 14 is telling you that the linkage stack created by BAKR is not sync with the caller on retry. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=recovery-linkage-stack-time-retry Joe On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 7:01 PM Joseph Reichman wrote: > Hi > > I have an SRB in which branch to a routine

help with abend 60D reason code 14 SDWALSLV value

2022-04-24 Thread Joseph Reichman
Hi I have an SRB in which branch to a routine which does a BAKR on entry and PR on exit My program abended from an in valid value on IARV64 REQUEST=LIST I have the abend code DC2 and reason AA That's not my problem my problem is doing the retry I get an abend 60D reason X'14' First off for

Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most Secure Platforms in ITIC Survey | TechChannel

2022-04-24 Thread Mike Schwab
A keystroke logger on a PC can capture mainframe passwords. Highly fragmented RACF authority on the mainframe limits exposure. On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 3:20 PM Joe Monk wrote: > > "Given that a healthy percentage of successful attacks involves insiders, > there > is no way that z/OS is immune

ATO gives itself two years to replace IBM mainframe

2022-04-24 Thread Laurence Chiu
Seen online is a number of sites. For those who don't know the ATO is the Australian Taxation Office or the Australian equivalent of the IRS. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/ato-gives-itself-two-years-to-replace-ibm-mainframe-579023 Based on some discussions friends of mine have been having

Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most Secure Platforms in ITIC Survey | TechChannel

2022-04-24 Thread ITschak Mugzach
The problem is not “fishing on z”. The problem is password sync or sso. If I have you password, I have it on most platforms. And most sites has the same userid and internal email (use...@mycorp.com). So who cares how I got the password? ITschak בתאריך יום א׳, 24 באפר׳ 2022 ב-19:06 מאת Seymour J

Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most Secure Platforms in ITIC Survey | TechChannel

2022-04-24 Thread Seymour J Metz
There are mail servers on mainframes. There are web servers on mainframes. What prevents a user from doing something stupid? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on

Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most Secure Platforms in ITIC Survey | TechChannel

2022-04-24 Thread Seymour J Metz
If an insider falls for a phish, that's something that involves an insider. If an insider fails to reset a default password, that's something that involves an insider. If an insider writes his passwords down, that involves an insider. It doesn't have to be malicious to be harmful. Ransomeware

Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most Secure Platforms in ITIC Survey | TechChannel

2022-04-24 Thread Joe Monk
Phishing doesn't happen on mainframes. A user who works at a company that has a mainframe but no access cannot be a phishing threat to a mainframe. That was my point. Joe On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 10:34 AM Gibney, Dave < 03b5261cfd78-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > It is arguable

Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most Secure Platforms in ITIC Survey | TechChannel

2022-04-24 Thread Gibney, Dave
It is arguable that a successful phish involved on insider. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Joe Monk > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2022 8:20 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most >

Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most Secure Platforms in ITIC Survey | TechChannel

2022-04-24 Thread Joe Monk
"Given that a healthy percentage of successful attacks involves insiders, there is no way that z/OS is immune to breaches." Umm, you may want to rethink that statement... "Phishing and related attacks — such as smishing (phishing lures sent over SMS messages) and business email compromise

Re: IBM (IBM Z) , Lenovo, HPE and Huawei Servers Rank as Most Secure Platforms in ITIC Survey | TechChannel

2022-04-24 Thread Seymour J Metz
Given that a healthy percentage of successful attacks involves insiders, there is no way that z/OS is immune to breaches. The best that can be said is that, properly administered, it is more secure than some other platforms. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3