Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

Hello Tom, If you have been using COPY/PASTE to move/convert text data up to ISPF EDIT, you may have some character conversion issue. The one I am seeing here lateky are in COPY/PASET from MS Teams chat sessions. In my case some blank characters are ending up a x'41' EBCDIC - RACF would not l

Re: [EXT] Re: Mainframe help now available!

I knew a couple of VP's who didn't understand why mainframe folks weren't interchangeable. You have too many MVS guys and need a CICS guy. Move an MVS guy over to the CICS team. What could be simpler? Robert Crawford Abstract Evolutions LLC (210) 913-3822 -Original Message- From: I

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

> ... The named labels, the download steps (Only the new Intermediate was > required)., the upload steps, the > Cert adds (yes trusted). the keyring connect to the same keyring used for > the last successful loads. The intermediate is NOT required. You can safely remove that one from your ke

Re: [EXT] Re: Mainframe help now available!

I resemble that remark! Been in z/OS since the MVS 2.1.7 days. Due to a buyout several years ago it was decided we had too many z/OS people so I was magically transformed overnight to an IDMS DBA. You can imagine how well that worked out. :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfr

Re: Mainframe help now available!

Regarding your first paragraph: To be fair to the "Human Resources" moniker, the point when it first became chic was to remind the Personnel department that people, too, are important to the organization. We don't abuse computers or desks, we don't waste pens or typewriter ribbons, we ought to

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

I open the file created by the export, using notepad. Select all the text in the file, copy and then in an edit of a dataset with the following characteristics: recfm=vb lrecl=84 I paste the text from the pc file. The use that as the source for the RACDCERT import of the CA Cert, making sur

Re: Mainframe help now available!

Orchestra conductor talking to a violin player: "I know you usually play the violin, but today we need another french horn player. You are a musician. You can do it." -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: Mainframe help now available!

This also fits into an easy game. Name that song: "Treating people just like pawns in chess, wait till their judgment day comes, yeah!" On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 9:47 AM Tom Marchant < 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Orchestra conductor talking to a violin player: "I know

Re: Mainframe help now available!

As an old timer, having worked for 46+ years, I well remember the good old Personal department. They were always very helpful and more importantly took responsibility to resolve/address the issue/problem I had raised. Then came along the Human Resources department. They never took responsibility

Re: [EXT] Re: Mainframe help now available!

Nice Sabbath reference. Robert Crawford Abstract Evolutions LLC (210) 913-3822 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bfishing Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXT] Re: Mainframe help now available! This also fit

Re: Mainframe help now available!

Hi All,  This Is Rebecca Richards, my Late Robert Richards who was a contributor on here and a Senior Systems Programmer with Dine Development Corp. I recently got certified for Studies to be a z/OS Systems Operator and Entry level Systems Programmer and im still continuing my education while try

Re: Mainframe help now available!

Does your school have a placement office? Have you created accounts on, e.g., Dice, Monster? Have you tried networking with your husband's colleagues? Good luck. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li

Re: Mainframe help now available!

Worker bee: Why did you tell the cusomer that we could easilly add foo when it's the one thing that we cannot add with this design? Project manager: I have confidence in you. "Remember that after Achilles cleaned the Augean Stables, he killed he man who asked him to to it'' Robert Townsend in Up

Re: Mainframe help now available!

I have already posted on Indeed. I’ll post on other sites. I’ll check to see if my school has an placement office. And I’ll reach out to his former colleagues Thanks 🙏  Rebecca Richards Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPad On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 11:23 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: Does your school

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

You might try RACDCERT CHECKCERT('') and see what RACF thinks in the certificate. If there were funny chars, it should show up Colin On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 14:40, Peter Vander Woude wrote: > I open the file created by the export, using notepad. Select all the text > in the file, copy and t

Re: Mainframe help now available!

What top management in large companies often doesn't understand is that we live in a capitalistic economy. If an employee can find better pay or better working conditions elsewhere, he is free to leave. Everything that I have read suggests that it costs a lot less to retain a professional than i

Re: [EXT] Re: Mainframe help now available!

Nothing wrong with that if you provide training and time to get up to speed. What do you mean by "It's not in the budget."? riight; soon; inexpensive m- pick two. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li

The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

For those with certificate chain problems, have you tried RACDCERT CHECKCERT as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=certificates-racdcert-checkcert-check-certificate-certificate-chain and RACDCERT LISTCHAIN as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=cer

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

Kurt the SMP message is GIM44336S ** AN UNUSUAL CONDITION OCCURRED. GIMJVREQ - java.net.SocketException: Write failed GIM20501IRECEIVE PROCESSING IS COMPLETE. THE HIGHEST RETURN CODE WAS 12. My gut reaction

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

thank you RACDCERT CERTAUTH LISTCHAIN has been both useful and frustrating. I list the new Intermediate (by label name it was added with). Bottom line is that it says the chain is completed back the the DigiCert Global G2 root . Still does not work though =-=-=-=-=-=- --

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

Tom Longfellow wrote, in part: >Now to be told by an acknowledged expert that the Intermediate Cert is NOT >needed. >For now I will just leave it on the ring since I went to all the trouble to >acquire it. Strongly recommend that once you get this working, you remove that cert. As I wrote befor

Char to Hex

Hi all, I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I would be grateful for your advice. I need to convert C'123AB' to X'0123AB' Any ideas? Best Regards Ituriel do Nascimento Neto z/OS System Programmer -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

unix commands in batch and su

I need to issue several commands in batch, that means JCL job. I know some ways to do it, but... but before I have to issue su command to get root authorities. I put 'su' command before others, but it doesn't work. Example: //K EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSTSIN DD *  oshell su;mkdir a;mkdir b;other co

Re: Char to Hex

W dniu 13.06.2023 o 21:05, Ituriel do Neto pisze: Hi all, I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I would be grateful for your advice. I need to convert C'123AB' to X'0123AB' Any ideas? Did you check REXX functions like X2C and C2X? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -

Re: Char to Hex

Hi, Sorry, i was not clear. I mean in assembler, not Rexx or any other language. Best Regards Ituriel do Nascimento Neto z/OS System Programmer Em terça-feira, 13 de junho de 2023 às 16:10:46 BRT, Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> escreveu: W dniu 1

Re: Char to Hex

> I need to convert C'123AB' to X'0123AB' Ituriel, HEX of 123AB is F1F2F3C1C2 Sort can convert character to hex and vice versa. //SYSINDD * OPTION COPY INREC BUILD=(01,05,HEX) /* Looks like you just want to pad leading zero? Thanks, Kolusu --

Re: Char to Hex

On Jun 13, 2023, at 2:16 PM, Ituriel do Neto <03427ec2837d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Sorry, i was not clear. I mean in assembler, not Rexx or any other language. Use TR to convert C’A’, C’B’, etc. to x’FA’, x’FB’, etc. and

Re: Char to Hex

Hi Kolusu, Actually I need to generate X'0123AB' from X'F1F2F3C1C2' Best Regards Ituriel do Nascimento Neto z/OS System Programmer Em terça-feira, 13 de junho de 2023 às 16:19:11 BRT, Sri h Kolusu escreveu: > I need to convert C'123AB' to X'0123AB' Ituriel, HEX of 123AB is  F1F2

Re: unix commands in batch and su

>> I put 'su' command before others, but it doesn't work. Radoslaw, Try using BPXBATCH //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=8M //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=*, //LRECL=133,RECFM=FB,DSORG=PS,BLKSIZE=0 //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDPARM DD * SH su; echo $PATH; your other commands; Thanks,

Re: unix commands in batch and su

On Jun 13, 2023, at 2:07 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Any clue how to use su and the commands? I would like to avoid putting all the commands to the shell script, as that require puting the s

Re: Char to Hex

Curtis, Thank you. Brillant. Best Regards Ituriel do Nascimento Neto z/OS System Programmer Em terça-feira, 13 de junho de 2023 às 16:23:23 BRT, Pew, Curtis G escreveu: On Jun 13, 2023, at 2:16 PM, Ituriel do Neto <03427ec2837d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Char to Hex

>> Actually I need to generate X'0123AB' from X'F1F2F3C1C2' Ituriel, As I mentioned DFSORT can do the reverse also //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN DD * F1F2F3C1C2 //SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD * OPTION COPY INREC BUILD=(C'0',01,10,TRAN=UNHEX) /* Thanks, Ko

Re: Char to Hex

Have you considered Translate and Pack? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Ituriel do Neto <03427ec2837d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 3:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Char to Hex Hi, Sorr

Re: Char to Hex

TR A -> x'FA' etc, PACK hex characters into bytes (extra byte to discard sign). UNPK bytes into hex characters (extra byte to discard sign), TR x'FA' -> A etc. On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 2:16 PM Ituriel do Neto <03427ec2837d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Hi, > > Sorry, i was not clea

Re: unix commands in batch and su

On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:26:14 +, Sri h Kolusu wrote: >>> I put 'su' command before others, but it doesn't work. >Radoslaw, > >Try using BPXBATCH > An alternative is bpxwunix(). o Advantage: it supports line comments in STDIN. o Drawback: requires a REXX wrapper. But that can be instream. >//

Re: Char to Hex

On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:05:32 +, Ituriel do Neto wrote: > >I don't want to reinvent the wheel, so I would be grateful for your advice. >I need to convert C'123AB' to X'0123AB' > Do you need this done at assembly time or execution time? Is your input string always 5 characters long? Other condi

Re: unix commands in batch and su

>> I'd use RECFM=VB and longer LRECL. 133? Is there a common 133 column >> printer or 327x model? Gil, Agreed on the usage of VB and longer LRECL. However, the JCL is a stripped version for ls command, and I wanted the LRECL to be FB for parsing out the contents later. Thanks, Kolusu -

Re: unix commands in batch and su

W dniu 13.06.2023 o 21:26, Sri h Kolusu pisze: I put 'su' command before others, but it doesn't work. Radoslaw, Try using BPXBATCH //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=8M //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=*, //LRECL=133,RECFM=FB,DSORG=PS,BLKSIZE=0 //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDPARM DD * SH su;

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

> GIM44336S ** AN UNUSUAL CONDITION OCCURRED. GIMJVREQ - > java.net.SocketException: > Write failed > My gut reaction is the the SocketException is because the Socket is not being > correctly negotiated for encryption. That does not smell like a certificate problem to me at

Re: unix commands in batch and su

The way I've done it is to 'echo' the commands together as one long string, and then pipe that to su: //RUNEXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDIN DD DUMMY //STDPARM DD * SH echo 'echo "Starting" ; cd / ; ls -la ; id ; echo "Ending" ' | su Note th

Re: unix commands in batch and su

> I put 'su' command before others, but it doesn't work. Try piping the commands to su, like this: //STEP EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDPARM DD * SH ; echo "The mkdir a command runs as the job's userid"; mkdir a; echo "The mkdir b command runs as superuser, if

Re: unix commands in batch and su

W dniu 13.06.2023 o 22:56, Kurt J. Quackenbush pisze: I put 'su' command before others, but it doesn't work. Try piping the commands to su, like this: //STEP EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDPARM DD * SH ; echo "The mkdir a command runs as the job's userid"; mk

Re: Mainframe help now available!

LOL! Years ago I gave an internal customer my estimate on a minor task, and he went to my boss hoping to get a better answer. My boss discussed it with me, and I told him I'd probably have it done in two or three days but that's only if everything went right (and you know how often that happens).

Re: Mainframe help now available!

I don't know whether it's fair to say so, but top management is often from the older crowd, and in their youth it was much more common for workers to need the job and feel fortunate to be employed. Nowadays, at least so it seems to me, many more people have a cussed independent streak and feel fre

Re: unix commands in batch and su

FYI, with Co:Z Batch instead of BPXBATCH, you just provide STDIN input to the shell like you would from a terminal. //SU EXEC PGM=COZBATCH //STDIN DD * su -s omvskern # commands for the su shell ... whoami exit # quit the su shell whoami # back to my login shell // Which prints: OMVS

Re: Mainframe help now available!

Bob Bridges wrote: >I don't know whether it's fair to say so, but top management is often >from the older crowd, and in their youth it was much more common for >workers to need the job and feel fortunate to be employed. Nowadays, >at least so it seems to me, many more people have a cussed independe

Re: Mainframe help now available!

Today's large companies, IMO, are for the enrichment of the CxOs and large stock holders. Some of the attitude today is similar to what caused "lower class" workers to unionize. On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 5:11 PM Phil Smith III wrote: > Bob Bridges wrote: > >I don't know whether it's fair to say so

Re: Mainframe help now available!

One thing I’ve noticed in 45+ years of working in the corporate world is CEO’s, managers, wealthy people, and anyone else in positions of power are not the smartest guys/gals in the room. The smartest people are the ones who don’t strive to achieve power. Most of the smartest people I’ve met in

Re: Mainframe help now available!

I'm reminded of a conversation on a forum a few decades ago about counter-offers. I work at company A. Company B makes an offer to hire me away, and I accept. Upon giving my notice, company A makes a counter-offer in order to keep me. The ensuing discussion involved a complaint that this shows

Re: Mainframe help now available!

I've always been advised that if I'm unhappy that accepting a counter offer is not prudent: I accept the counter offer. Company A hires/trains another employee, then repeats the behavior that caused me to start looking. I go to company B but they're no longer interested in me. I've been at comp

Re: Char to Hex

I blogged this recently Easy question – hard answer, how to I convert a hex string to hex byte string in C . The C sscanf