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

How to search large loadlib

I have a large PDSE loadlib with just under 10,000 members. Most of the load members are COBOL programs. Some of them were incorrectly linked with a batch module, called ABCDE and issue the COBOL verb CALL 'ABCDE'. I do have the source for all of the COBOL programs, but it is scattered around a b

Quarterly RSU

Is it still true that IBM does more extensive testing for quarterly RSUs than on the other monthly RSUs? It's been suggested to me that this may no longer be the case. But wisdom used to be to perform maintenance on the quarterly's. My understanding was (may be dated) that IBM performed more strin

C

I took my first C course in 1980. The text was the original *The C programming Language* by Kerrigan and Richie, which I still have on my shelf, The text is copyright 1978. That's 42 years ago. I was an IBM HL Assembler programmer at the time. BTW ... we still were using IFOX00 at the time as well.

Is there a COBOL mailing list?

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VSAM record length 0

And ever since then people have been screwing up proofs and calculations by trying to divide by it. >In the sixth century brilliant Indian mathematicians added zero >to the number system. IBM designers have not yet caught up. >

Clist dataset

CANCEL command should do it. Date:Sat, 5 Oct 2019 03:29:26 -0500 From:Bill Giannelli Subject: how to force a free of ispf allocated Dataset I am trying to rename a CLIST library allocated to users for ISPF. how do I force users to deallocate the dataset so I can rename it? I have been se

Mainframe hacking

Hopefully this isn't too far afield for the list. I recently got a notification from an organization related to one of the big credit bureaus that my medical information was breached. I contacted that organization, who gave me what I thought was a rather hard time. Evidently that organization has a

mainframe hacking "success stories"

What is their budget going to look like when they get a $10,000 fine? Or does that not count. As I stated, if they can't do it securely, they shouldn't do it. Date:Sat, 22 Jun 2019 19:46:12 +0300 From:ITschak Mugzach Subject: Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"? 10K or 20M in GDPR, t

mainframe hacking "success stories"?

If a company can't afford to do computing correctly, and that includes doing it securely, they shouldn't have computers in house in the first place. Particularly medical related companies such as hospitals. That's a HIPPA violation waiting to happen. Which in the US, carries potentially severe cons

CICS and IMS training

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