On May 25, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Jim Bohnsack wrote:
That's almost the question. What should be the shipment default?
DES encryption or the prior hash format? There is no question that
it should be able to support the previous type of encryption. My
contention is that most shops use DES enc
That's almost the question. What should be the shipment default? DES
encryption or the prior hash format? There is no question that it
should be able to support the previous type of encryption. My
contention is that most shops use DES encryption and the default should
be DES. I certainly t
It should be shipped with AES encryption as the default with DES and this exit
as options. There should, of course, be large warnings about what
defaults/options may be incompatible with prior releases of the product.
It would be nice if the product could sense if the current settings are
incompa
On Friday, 05/25/2007 at 01:20 AST, Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'd be interested in a show of hands to find out if others prefer to and
> do roll your own for database password encryption vs. using RACF's DES
> code. I told the RACF developer that I'd let him know what I found.
I
> It seems to me that it
> should be made an option rather than having someone (me) read and
> decipher the note in the program directory and then ignore it.
Leaving
> the exit in place rather than using RACF's DES encryption means that
if
> you use your existing DES encrypted database, no existing
The exit should not be the default or even readily available without some
positive action by the install person.
That said, we might have to use that exit to implement an AES encryption
of
the passwords, if we do start the migration to RACF.
/Tom Kern
On Fri, 25 May 2007 13:20:11 -0400, Jim B
I'm installing z/VM 5.2 on a 2nd level test system while waiting for 5.3
to become available. I stumbled (stubbed my toe) over a default in the
RACF install and am curious to get some other's views on whether or not
this should be the default. In talking with a RACF developer, he said
that th
According to IDC, IBM's leadership position in global server revenue in
2006 was augmented by noteworthy 11.7 percent year-over-year revenue
growth in its System z mainframe business, and 29.1 percent factory
revenue share in the quarter. (2)
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21591.w
Based on your comment I guess either the operator did not specify a
loadparm, even when he was instructed to do so, or the loadparm was not
recognized for some reason. Hm, well, I can't guess what is would be. Nex
t
IPL we can look into it.
I did some testing with a guest VM. IPL with known co
