PDS/e [was: Definition of mainframe?]

2023-07-29 Thread Jon Perryman
>On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 03:26:45 PM PDT, Rick Troth >wrote: > I don't follow your comparison of PDS/e and Unix filesystems. Understanding PDS/e inefficiency is critical to understand because it is the functional equivalent of a Unix filesystem. Put on your z/OS DASD sysprog hat for a

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-29 Thread Tom Brennan
Ok, I guess that could mean that if/until someone earns your respect, you make fun of them like you did with me, ignore their answers like you did with me, and ignore their questions like you did with me. On 7/29/2023 9:14 PM, Jon Perryman wrote: I'm civil to those who earn and demonstrate

Re: AT-TLS and CSSMTP setup

2023-07-29 Thread Peter Vels
That is OK. But I need to see the output from the GSKSRVR trace to get to the bottom of the issue. I suspect that you are missing a CA somewhere, and the trace will tell us WHICH certificate that is. On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 at 14:23, Brian Westerman wrote: > This is what I get from your command:

Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows

2023-07-29 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 7/27/2023 11:44 AM, Schmitt, Michael wrote: I don't remember what the deal was with NFS when I asked about it 3 years ago. More than likely its dependence on Kerberos... -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245

Re: AT-TLS and CSSMTP setup

2023-07-29 Thread Brian Westerman
This is what I get from your command: racdcert id(CSSMTP) listr(CSSMTPRing) Digital ring information for user CSSMTP: Ring: >CSSMTPRing<

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-29 Thread Jon Perryman
> On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 04:33:30 PM PDT, Seymour J Metz > wrote: > I'm perfectly willing to be civil with people who are civil,  If I'm continually "wrong again", how is it that we arrived at the solution?  Does anyone think that Seymour was leading Phil towards a solution to his

Re: AT-TLS and CSSMTP setup

2023-07-29 Thread Peter Vels
"ADD" adds a certificate (contained in a data set) to RACF, but *not* to a keyring. For that you need "CONNECT". RC 8 means: An error is detected while validating a certificate, so a CA is missing from the keyring (even though you might've ADDed it to RACF). IBM says (edited for brevity): 1.

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Me just thinking about the 'Levels Of Argument' keeps me calm when the name calling begins. On Sat, Jul 29, 2023, 17:48 Jay Maynard wrote: > Now folks...let's not descend into personal name-calling, how about? > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 4:56 PM Jon Perryman wrote: > > > > On Saturday, July

Re: AT-TLS and CSSMTP setup

2023-07-29 Thread Brian Westerman
I get BPXF024I (TCPIP) Jul 30 01:12:45 TTLS[16777256]: 18:12:45 TCPIP 639 EZD1286I TTLS Error GRPID: 0007 ENVID: 0009 CONNID: 009B LOCAL: 192.168.1.66..1122 REMOTE: 99.198.97.250..587 JOBNAME: CSSMTP USERID: CSSMTP RULE: CSSMTP RC:8 Initial Handshake 00 00

Re: speaking of filesystems [was: Definition of mainframe?]

2023-07-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:26:29 -0400, Rick Troth wrote: > >Here's a neat trick: you can make a hard link to a sym-link. > I believe that's not required for POSIX conformance. But I may be misled by the lack of that ability in the "ln" utility. >There are only a handful of actual file *types*: > >

Re: bitmapped displays [was: Definition of mainframe?]

2023-07-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:47:54 -0400, Rick Troth wrote: >Xwindows is used by Linux because it had been developed widely and was >common on Unix when Linux came into popular view. > One thing that Xwindows got wrong was exposing the bit pitch in the API. A co-worker lamented that on his new Mac with

Re: Definition of mainframe? Was: Ars Technica

2023-07-29 Thread Grant Taylor
On 7/29/23 11:28 AM, Jon Perryman wrote: Can anyone provide the definition of MAINFRAME? The ARS Technica article is complete nonsense because the mainframe is a state of mind and nothing to do with reality. Can anyone prove me wrong? I tend to agree that mainframe can be a state of mine

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-29 Thread Seymour J Metz
I'm perfectly willing to be civil with people who are civil, but when someone insists on repeated personal attacks. Take a look at the history of this thread and you will see that I have been restrained by comparison. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

of COBOL and other languages [was: Definition of mainframe?]

2023-07-29 Thread Rick Troth
We had an ... interesting ... conversation over on the assembler list a couple weeks ago. I knee-jerked against something PHSiii said. I sorta started some flaming. Not intentional. Yeah ... the author got me ticked off too. I'm actually not a COBOL fan, but I truly wish more of us knew it

bitmapped displays [was: Definition of mainframe?]

2023-07-29 Thread Rick Troth
Xwindows is used by Linux because it had been developed widely and was common on Unix when Linux came into popular view. Xwindows itself is an excellent development. Sadly, Xwindows is way to "chatty" and has other issues. (But the reactions against it from the security community are WAY out of

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-29 Thread Jay Maynard
Now folks...let's not descend into personal name-calling, how about? On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 4:56 PM Jon Perryman wrote: > > On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 02:10:11 PM PDT, Seymour J Metz < > sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > Wrong again. When running z/OS under VM for production, multiple 3270 >

speaking of filesystems [was: Definition of mainframe?]

2023-07-29 Thread Rick Troth
I don't follow your comparison of PDS/e and Unix filesystems. If I saw correlation of Linux filesystems with PDS, I glossed over it as stoopid. (Here again, I feel your pain.) My understanding is that PDS is (historically) a means of segmenting one data set into related chunks. They're

Linux and z/OS and stuff [was: Definition of mainframe?]

2023-07-29 Thread Rick Troth
This is the IBM-MAIN discussion list, so let me tread lightly on my z/OS friends. It's correct that the O/S does not define "the mainframe". I can't count the number of times I've cringed at things like "Linux for z/OS" (instead of "Linux for Z"). I share your frustration over the wrong

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-29 Thread Jon Perryman
> On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 02:10:11 PM PDT, Seymour J Metz > wrote: > Wrong again. When running z/OS under VM for production, multiple 3270 > consoles is the norm. See-more Putz. What are you saying is wrong with my second sentence that says "z/OS has many consoles." which applies to

Re: Definition of mainframe? Was: Ars Technica

2023-07-29 Thread Bob Bridges
I do like PL/1 very much. PL/C (a subset) was the first language I ever learned, and although I have used lots of others since then I am still favorably impressed with PL/1's full control over storage. Unfortunately I haven't written anything in it in a couple decades, so maybe the golden

Re: Definition of mainframe? Was: Ars Technica

2023-07-29 Thread Rick Troth
Your inquiry is (understandably) somewhat of a reaction against unfortunate trends in public thinking. I will respond to them separately. First is triggered by the subject line: definition of a mainframe. Your #2 is a miss. Hardware *does* make a mainframe: channelized I/O Let me explain.

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-29 Thread Seymour J Metz
Wrong again. When running z/OS under VM for production, multiple 3270 consoles is the norm. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jon Perryman Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2023 5:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Ignorant z/OS

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-29 Thread Jon Perryman
> On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 01:24:04 PM PDT, Phil Smith III > wrote: > After changing the virtual console address from 03E1 to 0009 > linemode output went to SECUSER without artifacts Congrats Phil. Here is what you need to know: 1. z/OS has many consoles. You don't have any consoles

Re: Definition of mainframe? Was: Ars Technica

2023-07-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:22:10 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: > Ok, so I'm a software geek, I admit it. But there are tasks for > which I like PL/1, or VBA, or REXX (or ooRexx), and so on. > >"Need"? Maybe not absolutely must have, but they're sure helpful. > I thought PL/1 is "The only

Re: AT-TLS and CSSMTP setup

2023-07-29 Thread Phil Smith III
Gil asked about Hansen's Law. Different Hansen-this is a guy we worked with. We also had Weald's Corollary: Even when it isn't a certificate issue, it's a certificate issue. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Ignorant z/OS question

2023-07-29 Thread Phil Smith III
After changing the virtual console address from 03E1 (matching the CONSOLE entry in CONSOLxx) to 0009 (matching no z/OS console definition) and reIPLing the guest, the linemode output went to SECUSER without artifacts, as it did on our old hosting environment. I'm convinced based on the

Re: Definition of mainframe? Was: Ars Technica

2023-07-29 Thread Bob Bridges
Many interesting points here, and even if I were interested in contradicting them I'm too ignorant of hardware to attempt it. But I will at least say that I'm very, very glad to have multiple algorithmic languages to write in, not just COBOL. I reluctantly admit that COBOL has important

Re: Definition of mainframe? Was: Ars Technica

2023-07-29 Thread Tom Brennan
Where does "1,600 PCIe slots" come from? On 7/29/2023 9:28 AM, Jon Perryman wrote: 2. Hardware does not make a mainframe. IBM z16 has PCIe and ram which are also on every modern motherboard. IBM z16 chooses not to include other hardware (e.g. SATA, IDE, WIFI and more). Motherboards choose not

Re: Inquiry about extracting and counting msgid from operlog using sort program

2023-07-29 Thread Jon Perryman
> On Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 05:25:49 AM PDT, Jason Cai > wrote: > The first question is about how to monitor and alert the system issues. Hi Jason, I don't think anyone analyzes messages on a daily/weekly/monthly basis because it is impractical. The majority of the thousands of unique

Definition of mainframe? Was: Ars Technica

2023-07-29 Thread Jon Perryman
Can anyone provide the definition of MAINFRAME? The ARS Technica article is complete nonsense because the mainframe is a state of mind and nothing to do with reality. Can anyone prove me wrong? 

Re: [EXT] Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

2023-07-29 Thread billogden
>From:Seymour J Metz >Yep, "Model 1 displays 480 characters (12 rows of 40 characters)." >Did you have keyboard issues? My memory of those ancient history days (early 70s) simply fails too much. I seem to remember "something" simple we did with the keyboard, but the details have vanished.

Re: AT-TLS and CSSMTP setup

2023-07-29 Thread Colin Paice
Please paste the messages you get. You can configure an ATTLS traceI tend to use TRACE(2) This can be configured in TTLSGroupAction TTLSEnvironmentAction and TTLSConnectionAction If syslogd is not running I get messages on the system log EZD1286I TTLS Error GRPID: 0007 ENVID: 0002