I am out of the Office until Oct 6

2008-09-27 Thread Mike Hammock
I will be out of the office starting 09/27/2008 and will not return until 10/06/2008. I am out of the office until Oct 6. I will have no email access and no telephone or voice maile access during this time. __ This email may contain

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Kris Buelens
At my -former- customer's installation, we set the inactivity value to something around 6 months. This suited us as it was decided to IPL the z/VM systems at winter/summer time zone change. If that doesn't suit you: To take care of MAINT friends, you might use a server like VMUTIL to have those

Re: Reserve/Release

2008-09-27 Thread Steve Wilkins
Hi Raymond, For dedicated DASD, CP doesn't look at the SHARED setting (or really anything else); the CCW goes straight to the hardware. For Minidisks, - If the v suffix is not defined on the MDISK statement in the user directory, a command reject is simulated; I assumed this was the case

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Leland Lucius
Kris Buelens wrote: If that doesn't suit you: To take care of MAINT friends, you might use a server like VMUTIL to have those XAUTOLOGged every month or so. Now I get what ppl were saying before about XAUTOLOGing things regularly. Didn't sink in before... For other servers that cannot be

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Kris Buelens
DIRM SETPW: that would need the the Dirmaint-RACF interfaces active. If you'd go that way, better use RAC ALTUSER userid PASSWORD(xyz) 2008/9/27 Leland Lucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kris Buelens wrote: If that doesn't suit you: To take care of MAINT friends, you might use a server like VMUTIL to

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Saturday, 09/27/2008 at 12:26 EDT, Leland Lucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering what folks set INACTIVE() to a Linux only environment where guests stay up for long periods or where MAINT and the like aren't used for long periods. When we installed RACFVM, our security team set

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Thomas Kern
Could we still get onto that userid via LOGONBY? /Tom Kern Alan Altmark wrote: A possible compromise could be: ALTUSER userid NOPHRASE NOPASSWORD will completely remove the password and phrase. - No one can logon directly to or use the id for authentication - The user can still be

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Scott Rohling
Yes... Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could we still get onto that userid via LOGONBY? /Tom Kern Alan Altmark wrote: A possible compromise could be: ALTUSER userid NOPHRASE NOPASSWORD will completely remove the password and phrase. -

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Leland Lucius
Alan Altmark wrote: A possible compromise could be: ALTUSER userid NOPHRASE NOPASSWORD will completely remove the password and phrase. - No one can logon directly to or use the id for authentication - The user can still be XAUTOLOGed - The user will never be revoked due to inactivity or too

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Leland Lucius
Scott Rohling wrote: Yes... Sent from my iPhone On Sep 27, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could we still get onto that userid via LOGONBY? Awesome, then that sounds like the way to go. Thanks everyone! Leland

Re: RACF, setropts inactive() and long running guests

2008-09-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Sunday, 09/28/2008 at 12:50 EDT, Leland Lucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would certainly make it easy and we wouldn't have to have any non-standard scheduled touching of the ID. I'll have to ponder it a little though since we do log onto a guest every so often to get to its console.

Re: VM RSCS as RJP to JES3, replace current process and last 3745.

2008-09-27 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 09/26/2008 at 10:02 EDT, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since we have VM/RSCS appearing as a RJP workstation to JES3 using EP and a 3745, can it do the same using the SNA protocol to look like a 3770 device, but minus the 3745? Your best bet is to try it. Create