Re: Ransomware in VSAM and DB2

2023-03-10 Thread Leonard D Woren
It's actually much more complex than that.  Here's a little-known story from a place I used to used to work some decades back.  This did not happen on an MVS system, but some other vendor's system with those letters in a different order.  One day that system crashed, I think for no apparent

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-10 Thread Laurence Chiu
This is a vendor package. Upon asking they said they only support RLS for sharing. So there are no other options. On Wed, Mar 8, 2023, 2:58 PM Dale R. Smith > > IBM has a product called "CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS" that claims you > can migrate VSAM Files to Db2 Tables without having to

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

2023-03-10 Thread Laurence Chiu
Hadn't considered that. Based on what the outsourcer has advised us I doubt this has even crossed their mind. On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 6:19 PM Timothy Sipples wrote: > The only other thing I can think of is that some operators (some > outsourcers for example) might not have — or know how to perform

Re: SMP)e

2023-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:17:09 -0600, Brian Westerman wrote: >That's the main reason they want you to do these individually, they are really >big. > I suspect it's a genuine functional dependency. Imagine a scenario: PTFA upgrades the assembler by adding a new opcode. PTFB contains a ++SRC

Re: SMP)e

2023-03-10 Thread Brian Westerman
That's the main reason they want you to do these individually, they are really big. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: WLM Couple dataset?

2023-03-10 Thread Pommier, Rex
Thanks, Matthew. Bill, if my initial post asking you to stop deleting the context came across as rude, I apologize. I didn't mean it that way, I didn't realize the listserv web site automatically whacked the earlier parts of the thread by default. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: WLM Couple dataset?

2023-03-10 Thread Matthew Stitt
I use the LISTSERV web site. On the left there are two apostrophes (quote marks). Those will include the entire thread (so far). It is considered good practice to remove the IBM-MAIN stuff at the bottom. Matthew On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 18:33:08 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at

Re: SMP)e

2023-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 13:36:33 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Maybe it's time for an RFE. Is there a business case for a new hold class to >address this? something like MANUALPRE(UY12345)? > Not a new hold class, which would require multiple jobs with a BYPASS, but a new sub-operand of PRE to

Re: CS/CDS instruction

2023-03-10 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS122-001/index.html IBM z16tm puts innovation to work while unlocking the potential of your hybrid cloud transformation IBM United States Hardware Announcement 122-001 April 5, 2022 Removal of support of the

Re: SMP)e

2023-03-10 Thread Steve Beaver
The PTF I referenced. My smpwrk is a M54. The PTF is so large I had to add a second volume to be able to get the PTF applied Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Mar 10, 2023, at 06:52, Allan Staller > <0387911dea17-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >

Re: CS/CDS instruction

2023-03-10 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 20:06:10 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 18:17:14 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > >>IBM has announced that Transactional execution will be removed. >> >Entirely? I read much earlier that it was being removed partially. From the z16 announcement Removal of

Re: SMP)e

2023-03-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
Maybe it's time for an RFE. Is there a business case for a new hold class to address this? something like MANUALPRE(UY12345)? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on

Re: SMP)e

2023-03-10 Thread Seymour J Metz
Was there a HOLD un the PTF with an explanation that it had to be on a separate APPLY from the prereq? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Barbara Nitz

Re: CS/CDS instruction

2023-03-10 Thread Peter Relson
The statement of direction is clear. That stated direction is to remove the transactional execution facility. I think that no information is yet available about "when" or whether it might be done in stages. Paul G wrote >Transactional execution : software :: speculative execution : firmware.

Re: SMP)e

2023-03-10 Thread Ann Kelley
See IO27985: GIM24608E ** SHELLSCR ENTRY BBLS1803 IS NEEDED TO PROCESS HFS SYSMOD UI65815, BUT SHELLSCR BBLS1803 IS NOT IN THE SZMR0G ZONE. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: WLM Couple dataset?

2023-03-10 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Horse hockey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2023 3:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: WLM Couple dataset? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization.

Re: WLM Couple dataset?

2023-03-10 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential D XCF,COUPLE,TYPE=WLM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2023 2:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: WLM Couple dataset? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization.

Re: SMP)e

2023-03-10 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I ask IBM and the said to install the PTFs serially to get around this issue. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Thursday, March 9, 2023 1:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: FW: SMP)e [CAUTION:

Re: WLM Couple dataset?

2023-03-10 Thread Michael Babcock
We re-INIT the CFRM, XCF, and LOGR at DR. The only one we reuse is WLM. On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 8:41 PM Gabriel Tully wrote: > Bill, > > IBM doesn't recommend mirroring the couple data sets [1]. There may not be > serious ramifications for the WLM CDS, but it could be on the same volume > with

Re: Ransomware in VSAM and DB2

2023-03-10 Thread Timothy Sipples
Attila Fogarasi wrote: >Also there are various solutions for immutable backups of z/OS data, which >would protect you against ransomware. Tommy Tsui wrote: >Any recommendation https://mediacenter.ibm.com/media/+IBM+Z+Cyber+Vault+Technical+Introduction/1_ug97n0p3

Re: SMP)e

2023-03-10 Thread Barbara Nitz
>No the problem is that you can't install these particular PTFs with everything >else, they have to be performed separately via an Apply the PTF by itself with >NO Groupextend and then Apply the > remaining PTF's needed from the original Apply. This is exactly what I did when I encountered

Re: Ransomware in VSAM and DB2

2023-03-10 Thread Colin Paice
Does it protect you from ransomware? It gets you back to a good backup. It depends on how often you backup - and having ransomware means you might lose all changes since the last backup so unless the database is read only - you are likely to lose some data. On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 23:44, Attila