Right! If you think DOGE folks have any concept of acceptable change
management practices, or that they care about what they break from
ignorance or lack of understanding, you haven't been paying attention.
These dodgy guys are convinced they are geniuses who can understand and
improve the SS
LibreOffice & MS Office are not "fully compatible", but close enough to
be very useful in most cases when exchanging files between users with LO
and users with MS Office.
* Default LO user interface very different ; although LO now includes
a "ribbon" option to make it look more like the MS
The new confusingly-named "Outlook for Windows" lacks features that are
in the Outlook of Office 365 or in the MS Office Outlook for the
desktop. There are some that are convinced that the MS goal is to
gradually enhance the "Outlook for Windows" and use a cross-platform
design, so at some po
Saying that any 8-bit combination is "supported" in file names and paths
by Unix is misleading. It would be very bad form to use a character
code that is not associated with a standard displayable glyph, even if
the creation of such a file were allowed, because reliably working with
a file wi
The first queston to ask yourself is: Do you really need features that
are unique to Outlook?. There are some very good email client
alternatives to Outlook, some completely free (e.g.,Thunderbird).
I have always preferred the desktop-only versions of Office to the
forced integration with MS
No, the the part about "AI makes stuff up" is actually inherent in the
design of Large Language Model AI. LLM AI draws inferences about
relationships from statistical relationships, which do not accurately
predict cause and effect and which depend on what fallible humans choose
to feed to the
It's incredible how much CPU (and clock time) can be expended if access
to file is doing "unnecessary" IO operations. One would hope these
days there aren't still any large, poor-blocksize sequential files
around, but if default buffering is used on such a file this can cost a
lot of Operati
Pre IBM/360 a number of different names were used for what we would now
call "Assemblers". On IBM 1400 series the name "Autocoder" was also
used. On the IBM 1620 it was called SPS (Symbolic Programming System.
On IBM 7000 series it was called the Macro Assembly Program or MAP.
JC Ew
Mainframe people are more likely to realize the distinction between
machine code and Assembler language because some of us have actually
been forced at some point in our life to write at the machine code
level, where you have to write in binary, octal, or hex. or decimal
numbers and manually as
It can be confusing when in some contexts one uses a file extension to
imply record structure and in others to imply the functional content of
the file --i.e., what app or family of apps should process the record
content in the file. Of course now that the extension is no longer
restricted t
I'm betting the auditor's level of understanding is pretty low here --
probably just a concept that putting code with a known error into
production is always bad. The reality of course is that if you have
been doing z/OS maintenance long enough, you know every system placed
into production h
Clearly any language that has enough features to write the logic to
implement a Universal Turing Machine should be called a programming
language, since only the hardware speed and memory limitations and
limitations of specific implementations of the language on hardware, not
the language itsel
Some of the tools commonly called scripting languages in the Linux
world are clearly very functional programming languages as well -- e.g.
Python, which even supports all the common and some less common math
functions, SQL calls, all that stuff. I think the close integration
with ability to
And if you really need variable behavior requiring complex logic at
execution time that is beyond the limited capability of JCL, the
simplest solution is batch execution of a scripting language that
supports dynamic allocation and I/O, like Rexx, or perhaps one of the
scripting languages in the
iasts Discord: https://discord.gg/sze
“Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you
are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Joel Ewing
Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Including, of course, adding suitable RACF profiles to control what
groups or users are authorized to use the "sudo" command, what user
identities they are allowed to change to, and which of those users or
groups are required to supply a password associated with the new
identity. Those kinds
Well said! This list has never been a platform for free speech TO a
mainframe audience, only relatively-free speech ON TOPICS directly
relevant to IBM mainframers. I say relatively-free, because someone
who persistently argues for a point after being directed to an
authoritative source that
ly pre validate remote users (via smartcards,
authentication app, validation codes, etc.) before the remote user is
allowed to communicate with z/OS.
JC Ewing
On 9/26/2024 9:00 AM, Joel Ewing wrote:
It used to be, and presumably still is, trivial to script a FTP login
sequence from PC pla
It used to be, and presumably still is, trivial to script a FTP login
sequence from PC platforms. While RACF max login attempts does by
default prevent this from being a useful means to gain unauthorized
access to any account or data, it does make this an easy route for a
denial-of-service at
On 08/12/2015 07:38 AM, Jerry Callen wrote:
> In another thread, l...@garlic.com wrote:
>
> ... but then if MVS had FBA support wouldn't have needed to do 3380 as CKD
> (even tho inherently it was FBA underneath) ...
>
> I didn't know that.
>
> Was that the first (and/or last?) IBM SLED to be
On 08/11/2015 01:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:37:30 -0500, Joel Ewing wrote:
>>
>> Encyclopedia Britannica is complicit in the confusion to this day by
>> incorrectly implying in their "Leap Year" entry that in addition to the
>> divisi
One of the things that became obvious in the Y2K discussion groups by
1999 was that the general public is not very good at understanding leap
year exception rules, especially ones that neither they, nor several
generations of their ancestors, have ever witnessed. It ran all the way
from some adama
Well, actually the original statement WAS self-apparently "ludicrous"
because it stated that U.S. DoD decreed ALL businesses would use COBOL,
period, and DoD has never had that much authority.
DoD had zero control over businesses that did not work on defense
contracts for DoD, and even those with
On 06/24/2015 03:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:34:04 -0500, Janet Graff wrote:
>
>> Sadly, python rejected the quote prefix for the site command.
>>
>> *cmd* 'QUOTE SITE RECFM=FM LRECL=80 BLKSIZE=3200'
>> *put* 'QUOTE SITE RECFM=FM LRECL=80 BLKSIZE=3200'\r\n
>> *get* '500 u
On 06/23/2015 11:40 AM, John McKown wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>> In a split screen ISPF session, with two edit logical screens open, is it
>> possible to do a line command CC/A type copy from one logical screen to the
>> other? That is, it does not seem to
On 06/04/2015 11:07 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <556da66b.9040...@acm.org>, on 06/02/2015
>at 07:49 AM, Joel Ewing said:
>
>> That may well be, but according to IBM and TSO documentation the
>> behavior of IKJEFT1A/IKJEFT1B is by design slightly
On 06/01/2015 07:23 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <556b662e.60...@acm.org>, on 05/31/2015
>at 02:51 PM, Joel Ewing said:
>
>> The above CLIST code should presumably work as you expect for
>> intercepting SEND CLIST "errors" in an Interactive TS
oved)
> /Steve
>
>
>
>
> From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)"
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Date: 2015-05-31 19:55
> Subject:Re: Notify for XMIT
> Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List
>
>
>
> In <555fe63d.3010.
On 05/31/2015 09:32 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <555fe63d.3010...@acm.org>, on 05/22/2015
>at 09:30 PM, Joel Ewing said:
>
>> But from APPENDIX A in TSO/E Customization, any command invoked
>> directly from the TMP that returns a non-0 return cod
On 05/29/2015 10:37 PM, Mike Schwab wrote:
> Well, it is old, but it is free.
> http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/
> Click on Install MVS 3.8.
> It includes instructions for loading MVS 3.7 on 2 3330 packs.
> You then update SMPE and install MVS 3.8.
> You can also then install the IBM PTFs and Us
On 05/21/2015 09:46 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <555c9bbd.4030...@acm.org>, on 05/20/2015
>at 09:35 AM, Joel Ewing said:
>
>> My recollection is that the immediate bailout from the CLIST and
>>from batch TSO on a non-zero TSO command processor RC onl
Realizing this does not solve the OP's immediate problem, for the
benefit of any others with similar exposure:
If you have important, possibly even critical data on DFHSM ML2 or
BACKUP tapes, then not making use of DFHSM DUPLEX capability is false
economy that you will eventually come to regret. I
On 05/19/2015 07:16 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <5554ae6d.4030...@acm.org>, on 05/14/2015
>at 09:17 AM, Joel Ewing said:
>
>> I think we resolved the issue by converting the CLIST to REXX so >another
>> TCB was involved.
>
> How is that r
On 05/16/2015 03:03 AM, Brian Westerman wrote:
> For simple Time of Day/Day of week job and task scheduling there is SyzAUTO/z
> www.SyzygyInc.com/SyzAUTOz.htm. It's quite a bit cheaper than the products
> from IBM, CA, and ASG.
>
> Brian Westerman
>
There are also some freebies from cbttape.
On 05/14/2015 01:27 PM, Mark Jacobs - Listserv wrote:
> As a general rule, the higher the RSU level the more security and
> integrity fixes will be included. The only way you'll know for sure is
> to access IBM's portal and download the "special" holddata.
>
> https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp
On 05/13/2015 03:57 PM, Ed Finnell wrote:
> Check out Sam G's BRODCAST utility on CBT. It addresses the problem.
>
>
> In a message dated 5/13/2015 3:46:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> ste...@copper.net writes:
>
> How many (willing to say) are using logfile.USERID in place of
> SYS1.BROD
On 05/12/2015 11:05 AM, John Eells wrote:
> 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) wrote:
>
>> Does IBM (or other vendors) make software available on Blu-Ray?
>
>
> We do not, for the z/OS platform at least.
>
Just a bizarre thought:
There is MFNetDisk to make z/OS co
On 05/05/2015 09:28 AM, Scott Ford wrote:
> All,
>
> Since I started this "question", so how is "one" to check for the existence
> of datasets if we can't really trust IEFBR14 ? Yeah, I can write an
> Assembler routine, by why, when BR14 is supposed to work...I have staging
> datasets we use to bu
On 04/23/2015 02:12 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote:
> Found this page on IBM's pricing:
>
> https://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/pw_com_zpdt_pricing
>
>
> Al Nims
> Systems Admin/Programmer 3
> Information Technology
> University of Florida
> (352) 273-1298
>
> -Or
On 04/22/2015 12:38 PM, retired mainframer wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
>> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 5:10 AM
>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: ENQ for the life of the
On 04/22/2015 07:03 AM, John McKown wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <
> elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote:
>
>> Tom Brennan wrote:
>>
>>> The word "resource" hadn't been used for a person yet, and managers ran
>> projects themselves and knew who was best for each
Let me guess, they still didn't bother to add a test for
table-size-exceeded to perform a "graceful failure" of the transaction
rather than take out the entire CICS region when the increased table
eventually proves inadequate; and if just increasing max table sizes
greatly increased CPU, then no do
On 03/25/2015 04:03 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <7426932741606214.wa.vbcoengmail@listserv.ua.edu>, on
> 03/25/2015
>at 01:21 PM, Vince Coen said:
>
>> Anyone have the JCL to set up a new user for TSO and other services
>> for both OS/390 and Z/OS.
>
> There is no "the JCL" f
On 02/27/2015 12:04 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
> Ed Gould wrote:
>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/26/my_aunt_was_a_human_assembler_at_nasa/
>
> Wow! Interesting. My jaw also dropped to the floor.
>
> Ok, ok, ok, I give up, we are too spoiled today with all these fancy systems,
> la
On 02/23/2015 10:59 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
> At 11:59 -0600 on 02/23/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: O/T What
> ŒThe Imitation Game¹ didn¹t tell you abo:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:14:44 -0600, Joel Ewing wrote:
>>
>>> In the original Email that I rec
In the original Email that I received from Ed the Email source text (as
opposed to the way my Email client renders it) shows the presence of a
hex-encoded blank (= 2 0) followed by a CR at about the 70-character
mark in the two places where the original URL later gets separated when
quoted. I'm no
On 01/15/2015 06:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:31:44 -0600, Joel Ewing wrote:
>
>> On 01/15/2015 03:29 PM, Ed Gould wrote:
>>> On Jan 15, 2015, at 2:36 PM, Joel Ewing wrote:
>>>> --SNIP---
On 01/15/2015 03:29 PM, Ed Gould wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2015, at 2:36 PM, Joel Ewing wrote:
>> --SNIP---
>> If a PDSE library could have been multi-volume, that might have been one
>> path to eliminate our requirement for PACK.
On 01/14/2015 06:33 PM, Dan wrote:
> I have a strange memory of a previous thread about ISPF PACKing (probably pre
> 1995).
>
> I seem to recall someone from IBM (in the ISPF area) posting a query about
> the use of the ISPF PACK option. I believe they were hoping to remove the
> function.
> I
at SHARE to learn about how to do that
>> (albeit with one of several commercial products).
>>
>> Unfortunately I know of no way to intercept in real time the invalid
>> userid at its initial usage and possible "validation" as opposed to when it
>> is actuall
Before PROTECTED was implemented we only had this happen once that I
know of -- for a CICS region. It wasn't a hack or DoS attempt. Just a
user who wasn't paying attention and thought he was telling
SuperSessions to take him to that CICS region three times in a row when
he was really on a logon s
On 01/05/2015 05:56 PM, Lou Losee wrote:
> Hopefully all of your started proc user ids are PROTECTED otherwise those 3
> invalid password attempts could cause you big problems.
>
> Lou
>
> --
> Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity
> - Unknown
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:2
On 01/03/2015 09:23 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 10:13:21 -0600, Ed Gould wrote:
>>
>> Indeed it was at least interesting.
>> I would be curious if IBM would like to comment on some of the
>> statements on how how RACF "encrypts" the passwords.
>> I disagree with how RACF encrypti
On 01/05/2015 09:35 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 07:21:28 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>>> For TSO, you can probe for known user ids, but you will see a lot of LOGON
>>> and IEA989I message in the SYSLOG.
>>
>> Only if you set a specific SLIP trap for this condition.
>>
> In th
On 12/30/2014 04:18 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In <54a23cd9.6040...@acm.org>, on 12/29/2014
>at 11:49 PM, Joel Ewing said:
>
>> The problem is not that you can't already recognize on a
>> member-by-member level whether or not data is PACKED
On 12/29/2014 10:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:13:30 -0600, Joel Ewing wrote:
>>
>> "SWITCH IT OFF" may not be a trivial thing to do if you are talking
>> about a PDS used by multiple users. The edit default for "PACKED", like
&g
On 12/29/2014 03:54 AM, R.S. wrote:
> W dniu 2014-12-29 o 07:50, mf db pisze:
>> What happens internally when this feature is ON ? Instructions wise any
>> change happens internally ?
>>
>
> PACK ON means some kind of text compression. It is transparent to the
> ISPF editor (you always see unpacke
Every MVS volume I have seen in the last two decades is on an emulated
3390 drive, although no doubt somewhere people are still running real
3380s or 3390s. From MVS's viewpoint, it thinks every DASD unit
address is a physical DASD drive even though the DASD Subsystem is only
emulating the archit
With current emulated DASD and PAVs, performance is probably no longer
an issue, but I believe multiple page data sets on one volume is still a
potential availability issue: You wouldn't want failure of a single
emulated drive to compromise two different systems at the same time, and
I seem to rec
While conceptually XML sounds nice, the problem would seem to be the
extreme volume of data involved, millions of messages daily for large
installations. Uncompressed XML is incredibly inefficient in storage
requirements, and compressing/uncompressing XML has processing costs.
>From my viewpoint I
On 11/24/2014 09:30 AM, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote:
> I am not sure what you are asking exactly for, but I do not think there are
> any pictures of the units side-by-side, not even in the same room.
>
> IBM 7090:
> http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61-0548.jpg
> http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/
>From looking at the old iealg510 manual, it really would need a lot of
work to make it more accurate. It should mention all system data sets
that have special requirements - e.g., must be cataloged in Master
Catalog, must be on the SYSRES or the IPL volume, must be PDS not PDSE,
must exist but i
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