Re: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

2022-04-27 Thread Brian Westerman
There are advantages to Windows and Linux based PC's because they will be able to use the extra capabilities of the emulators they use to emulate the 3270's. But you are completely correct that you probably don't want very large PC's because most operators would likely use them to play call of

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

2022-04-27 Thread Mike Schwab
A load module consists of some txt records, where the entry points and external variables are deifined, then a short record followed by a block of binary instruction in a multiple of 1K. During copy / compress / restore of a module, the binary machine code is regrouped into different sized blocks

Re: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
It is better to describe the raw data rather than your interpretation of them. Show, e.g., the code, ABEND code, reason code, registers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.ED

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
That's because you are not attaching the zip file. You need something like (empty lines are significant): MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="simple boundary" Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary ... arbitrary text simple boundary Content-type: APPLICATION/ZIP CONTENT-D

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Content-Type: multipart; BOUNDARY="SIMPLE BOUNDARY" means that MIME parts begin with "SIMPLE BOUNDARY" -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Carmen Vitullo [cv

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Fetch protection is is S0c$-04. Please show your code for accessing the CIB. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Ituriel do Neto [03427ec2837d-dmarc-requ

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
They say that the memory is the second thing to fail. OS/VS, including MVS, reflects 004 as S0C$ and 005 as S0C%, although the latter is rare on OS/VS systems. However, OS/VS also reflects some other codes as S0C4, e.g., reference to an unallocated page. By the time you get to z/OS there are a

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Is the output of an IEBCOPY COPYMOD equal to the input? The results of loading them into storage are the same, but the won't have the same hash. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSE

Re: Marx Zelden - IPLINFO utility

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
IMHO the fundamental error was making storage protect optional. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Phil Smith III [li...@akphs.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 26,

Re: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Is the program in the PPT? If so, what is its key? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Ituriel do Neto [03427ec2837d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent:

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

2022-04-27 Thread Bill Godfrey
The COPYMOD function of IEBCOPY will in some cases combine multiple blocks of a load module into fewer longer blocks, and where certain blocks contain the length of the next block, the length will be changed accordingly. In such cases comparing the original and the copy will not produce a match

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Yes; see RGC 2045 and 2046. Thenormal way is to create a multipart message with one MIME body and include the zip file as the payload. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: Marx Zelden - IPLINFO utility

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Even in the later days of OS/360, it was hard to get IBM to take integrity exposures seriously. Things got better with MVS. 05F0 0A0C -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
That message does not have an attachment. The CONTENT-DISPOSITION field has significance to the reciving application, not to the sending application. The normal way to do what you want is to zip the file and send a message containing MIME MIME-Version, Content-Type Header Field and Content-Tra

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
>From an z/architecture point of view a program interrupt code could be >generated by referencing a 64-bit address which was higher than the installed >amount of memory. But to get an interrupt code 0005 on a z/OS system today is >significantly more difficult I think. Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw htt

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 at 16:20, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > A Historian told me long ago that Addressing exceptions were so rare > before DAT that MVS/XA elected to reflect 0005 as S0C4 for > compatibility with existing code. This sounds oddly backwards.

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

2022-04-27 Thread Michael Babcock
I can vouch for the Visara boxes. We have console concentrators and they have been very stable. We use Rocket’s TE software for the consoles. Works great. On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 3:10 PM Jerry Whitteridge < jerry.whitteri...@albertsons.com> wrote: > Talk to the Visara folks - they have solution

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

2022-04-27 Thread Ken Bloom
Hi Contact me off line and we can discuss. We do have thin client solutions that would work for you. Depending on your environment you may want to rethink switching to the OSA-ICC if security concerns are near the top of your list. Ken Kenneth A. Bloom Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara I

Re: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

2022-04-27 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Would Chromebooks fit your need? Inexpensive, not Windows, but not sure if they auto-reboot for updates (I don't actually own one). OTOH tn3270 capabilitiy would be limited to whichever one(s) Chrome supports. HTH Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:48:12 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: >Well, S0C4-11 does not mean the storage is fetch-protected. It means the >virtual address doesn't exist. .. > In SA22-7871-10 z/Architecture IBM Reference Summary I read: Program-Interruption Codes At real-storage locations 142-143 (8E-

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

2022-04-27 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Talk to the Visara folks - they have solutions that would work for you Jerry Whitteridge jerry.whitteri...@albertsons.com Sr. Manager Managed Services Albertsons Companies -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Longfellow Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2022

General Query --- Any comments on thin clients as mainframe consoles.

2022-04-27 Thread Tom Longfellow
We are looking at retiring the coax connected consoles and terminals at our site. The obvious answer is an OSA-ICC with ethernet connected tn3270 devices. Anybody have a glowing recommendation for the replacement device for the classic 3270 "green screen" workstation console? I am trying to a

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Charles Mills
Correct! Bingo! THAT explains everything. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 10:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected Wel

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Steve Smith
Well, S0C4-11 does not mean the storage is fetch-protected. It means the virtual address doesn't exist. Are you sure you're looking at a CIB? STCs have one for the START command, but I think batch jobs only get one when a command (MODIFY or STOP) is sent to them later on. sas On Wed, Apr 27, 2

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Ituriel do Neto
Mike, I don't think so, but to remove all doubts i have associated the PROCNAME in class STARTED with my userid. Now both STC and batch job run with the same userid, but when batch, the  CIBXTOKN continues to be fetch protected giving me and abend S0C4-11 Best Regards Ituriel do Nascimento Ne

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

2022-04-27 Thread Joseph Reichman
There is a FRR parm on the IEAMSCHD Isn’t the SETFRR done on your behalf when issuing the IEAMSCHD macro ? > On Apr 27, 2022, at 12:34 PM, Mike Shaw wrote: > > Joseph, > > I have to comment...many of your initial posts over the months you have > posted on this list lack enough detail for any

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I used to run this with XMITIP - email attachment is in separate file, either HFS or MVS //XMIT EXEC XMITIP,COND=((0,NE),(0,EQ)) //*HFS1 DD PATH='/u/eileen/tmp/statfile/edupstat.zip', //* PATHDISP=(KEEP,KEEP) PATHMODE=SIRXU //HFS1 DD DSN=X.MACS.ZIP,DISP=SHR //SYSIN DD * %XMITIP (ebar...

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I'm not sure what this additional parameter does BOUNDARY="SIMPLE BOUNDARY" I don't use that parm in my test job I think maybe the best option is to try XMIT/IP I actually may have that tool also, I can check Carmen On 4/27/2022 11:28 AM, Sasso, Len wrote: BOUNDARY="SIMPLE BOUNDARY" -- /I am n

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

2022-04-27 Thread Mike Shaw
Joseph, I have to comment...many of your initial posts over the months you have posted on this list lack enough detail for anyone to help you without requesting more information. As others have pointed out many times, it is better to: 1) Only post on this list after you have done thorough desk-

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Sasso, Len
If I specify either: CONTENT-TYPE: APPLICATION/ZIP; BOUNDARY="SIMPLE BOUNDARY" CONTENT-DISPOSITION: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=TEST.ZIP CONTENT-TRANSFER-ENCODING: BINARY or CONTENT-TYPE: APPLICATION/OCTET-STREAM; BOUNDARY="SIMPLE BOUNDARY" CONTENT-DISPOSITION: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=TEST.ZIP CONTENT-TRA

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:48:04 +, Sasso, Len wrote: >When I tried to open it with 7-Zip I received the following message: > > Can not open file "abc.zip" as archive. > Is EBCDIC the problem? On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:14:52 -0500, Carmen Vitullo wrote: >I have an example, not attaching a z

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

2022-04-27 Thread Charles Mills
One of the two systems is Dallas. FWIW, I got the no ICSF message on the other system. Will try later today with cksum. Definitely should be good enough. This is not crypto or cybercrime, just "are these two programs the same?" Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Is there a RACF setting to allow a particular user to run any APF program, or a resource authorization to run this APF program? On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 3:28 PM Ituriel do Neto <03427ec2837d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Hi, > > The loadlib is APF in both cases because i'm using the

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
As Mark mentioned - get a copy of XMITIP and you'll find an easy to use z/OS email tool. You can get it at www.cbttape.org/updates.htm and get file314 or from www.lbdsoftware.com. It supports pkzip, zip390, ISPZIP, SLIKZIP, and includes a copy of infozip if you don't have a zip product. Lionel B

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I found out i have pkzip on our system, I created a test archive file and emailed it to myself. 310 bytes, when I save the attachment on my PC it's zero bytes :( and I cannot open it, so, something is corrupting the file for me, I suspect it's all security related for me :( Carmen On 4/27/202

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Sasso, Len
Sorry, when I tried to open it with 7-Zip, on my laptop, I received the following message: Can not open file "abc.zip" as archive. Thank You and Please Be Safe! Len Sasso Systems Administrator Senior CSRA, A General Dynamics Information Technology Company 327 Columbia TPKE Rensselaer,

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

2022-04-27 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2022-04-27 03:39 AM, Colin Paice wrote: try md5 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=descriptions-md5-calculate-check-md5-cryptographic-hashes md5 was added to z/OS at the same time as sha256 (z/OS 2.4 June 2020), and has a dependency on ICSF (described in the doc). The OP has alread

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Carmen Vitullo
using CONTENT-TYPE: APPLICATION/ZIP CONTENT-TRANSFER-ENCODING: BINARY on the IEBGENER job ? I'm not sure if there's maybe a parm needed on the PKZIP job to be comparable with PKZIP on window ? Carmen On 4/27/2022 10:48 AM, Sasso, Len wrote: When I tried to open it with 7-Zip I received t

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Sasso, Len
When I tried to open it with 7-Zip I received the following message: Can not open file "abc.zip" as archive. Thank You and Please Be Safe! Len Sasso Systems Administrator Senior CSRA, A General Dynamics Information Technology Company 327 Columbia TPKE Rensselaer, NY 12144 TEAM: Toget

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Carmen Vitullo
ok, i found an older JCL from a former job SUBJECT: Z/OS SYST SMTP MAIL TESTING WITH ATTACHMENT MIME-VERSION: 1.0 CONTENT-TYPE: APPLICATION/ZIP CONTENT-TRANSFER-ENCODING: BINARY CONTENT-DESCRIPTION: TEST ZIP ATTACHMENT CONTENT-DISPOSITION: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=CPV8281.ZIP - On 4/27/2022 10

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I don't have any zip products but it's the same statment I think the CONTENT-TYPE needs to be changed. CONTENT-DISPOSITION: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=user.JCL.CNTL(BR14) - let me see if I have an example of attaching a binary file On 4/27/2022 10:28 AM, Sasso, Len wrote: Do you have an example usi

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Sasso, Len
Do you have an example using IEBGENER with a Zip file attachment? Thank You and Please Be Safe! Len Sasso Systems Administrator Senior CSRA, A General Dynamics Information Technology Company 327 Columbia TPKE Rensselaer, NY 12144 TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More Office Hours: M-F 7 AM -

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Ituriel do Neto
Hi, The loadlib is APF in both cases because i'm using the same JCL. For instance, as STC it is started by the command S PROCNAME, while as a batch job, using the following JCL: //JOBNAME (),CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,REGION=0M //A1            EXEC PROCNAME The PROC is the same, expanded from the same

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Mark Regan
You can use XMITIP, from Lionel Dyck. You can get it from his website at https://www.lbdsoftware.com ​Regards, Mark Regan, K8MTR General, EN80tg CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991), RUENAAA/CNO WASHINGTON DC//OP-009QCP Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017 z/OS Network Software Consultant (z NetVi

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Carmen Vitullo
one more better example //SMTPTEST EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN    DD DUMMY //SYSUT1    DD * HELO LITJES2T MAIL FROM:donotre...@site.com RCPT TO:<@MAIL.NET:u...@asite.com> DATA SUBJECT: Z/OS SYST SMTP MAIL TESTING WITH ATTACHMENT MIME-VERSION:

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Carmen Vitullo
sure, below is one example //SMTPTEST EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN    DD DUMMY //SYSUT1    DD DSN=my.MAIL.HEADER,DISP=SHR HELO sitename MAIL FROM: RCPT TO:u...@emdomain.com DATA SUBJECT:SMTP TESTING ATTACHEMENT MIME-VERSION: 1.0 CONTENT-TYPE:

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Sasso, Len
I have already created the Zip file with PKZIP (LRECL=80). An example of using IEBGENER and attaching the Zip file would be appreciated. Thank You and Please Be Safe! Len Sasso Systems Administrator Senior CSRA, A General Dynamics Information Technology Company 327 Columbia TPKE Rensselaer, NY 1

Re: Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I have an example, not attaching a zip file - do you have a product like PKZIP on the mainframe? if you need an example of using IEBGENER and attaching a file I can provide an example Carmen On 4/27/2022 10:04 AM, Sasso, Len wrote: Is it possible to send an email with a Zip file as an attac

Send an email with a Zip file as an attachment?

2022-04-27 Thread Sasso, Len
Is it possible to send an email with a Zip file as an attachment, from our mainframe (z/OS 2.3) executing IEBGENER via SMTP? If so, could you please provide an example? Thank You and Please Be Safe! Len Sasso Systems Administrator Senior CSRA, A General Dynamics Information Technology Company

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

2022-04-27 Thread Joseph Reichman
Yes that’s because I had a bad ptr for the IARV64 so my first abend was for D02 when I did my retry all I was attempting to do was to go somewhere in my SRB and set reg 15 with a bad ie non zero return code However as the documentation points out if your recovery is a FRR and in using IEAMSCHD

Re: EXTERNAL: CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Crawford, Robert C.
Does your program get loaded out of an APF authorized library when it runs as a STC? What's in the STEPLIB concatenation for the batch job? One unauthorized library makes the whole STEPLIB unauthorized. Robert Crawford Mainframe Management United Services Automobile Association (210) 913-382

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

2022-04-27 Thread Peter Relson
To be clear: are you saying that when you did not specify SDWALSLV at all you get 60D-14, and when you specified it with a value of 1 you did not? This what I see for 60d It is just ridiculous that you continually ignore what someone writes, and then post only what you think matters inst

CIBXUTOK fetch protected

2022-04-27 Thread Ituriel do Neto
Hi all, I'm trying to reach CIBXTOKN field under CIBX control block, and if the program is executed as a batch job, this field is fetch protected, but if it runs as an STC, the access is granted. What is the difference? Best Regards Ituriel do Nascimento Neto z/OS System Programmer -

Re: SMF type 60

2022-04-27 Thread Joe Monk
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=rm-headerself-defining-section-50 Joe On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 5:33 AM Jack Zukt wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to "decode" a few SMF type 60 (VSAM Volume Data Set Updated), > but I have reached a dead end. The greatest part of the information on > these

SMF type 60

2022-04-27 Thread Jack Zukt
Hi, I am trying to "decode" a few SMF type 60 (VSAM Volume Data Set Updated), but I have reached a dead end. The greatest part of the information on these records is the "VSAM Volume Record" information and I cannot find anywhere how to decode it. It does not seem to rely on "offset/length" data.

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

2022-04-27 Thread Colin Paice
try md5 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=descriptions-md5-calculate-check-md5-cryptographic-hashes To print the hash of an MVS data set: md5 "//'SYS2.LOADLIB(XYZMOD)" On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 23:30, Charles Mills wrote: > Is there any z/OS utility that will give a hash of a (tradition