Re: Amateur project: microcode emulation [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-07-12 Thread Jones, Phil
Hi Rupert; Have you seen "VisibleZ" which can be downloaded via https://punctiliousprogrammer.com/ ? Regards; Phil -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rupert Reynolds Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2019 5:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Am

Re: WTO for message that will require explicit deletion? [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-06-27 Thread Jones, Phil
Hi Charles/Wendell; As an operator back in the 70s, we used multiple AREAs for some of our consoles; difficult to manage at the time and even more difficult to remember now. I notice that AREA(NONE) is included in the sample below; here is the whole 9 yards from the good book: AREA

Re: Page/Alert notifications from z/os [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-06-18 Thread Jones, Phil
Who has taken the whole process a step further by raising problem tickets, sending alerts to "Single Pane of Glass" (for example)? I'm especially interested to hear if anyone is using TBSM... Regards; Phil -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs

Re: Need for a z/OS "master index" (Was RE: LOAD/LINK exit) [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-06-16 Thread Jones, Phil
Ah yes... The good old days, when the question may have been as you wrote: "if you were new to this platform, how would you ever guess that the tool to copy a file (oops, dataset) was named IEBGENER and was documented in a manual named "DFSMSdfp Utilities"? Wouldn't it be great if a newbie could

Re: Just how secure are mainframes? | Trevor Eddolls [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-06-06 Thread Jones, Phil
panies. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2019-06-06 o 03:33, Bill Johnson pisze: > Agree 100% and have never seen a shop that does. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 9:29 PM, Jones, Phil > <02379a6d81f2-dmarc-req

Re: Just how secure are mainframes? | Trevor Eddolls [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-06-05 Thread Jones, Phil
At the risk of being controversial, I think that any z/OS site that allows general utility access to the RACF DB almost DESERVES to be hacked... Regards; Phil J. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, 6 June 2019 2:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LIS

Re: Query for article on testing mainframe systems, applications, networks [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-05-01 Thread Jones, Phil
Hi Gabe; I have a few quick comments: 1. 'We' are very dependent on IVPs provided by the suppliers when we first install or upgrade system software products into a sandpit LPAR. 'We' also have a certain level of locally-developed integration testing processes to follow, still

Re: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-04-15 Thread Jones, Phil
Snap: Except my painful memory is of being a new shift leader at an IBM data center in the mid 1970s (no names, no pack drill). Junior ops were 'managing' the 158 because they knew how to work on VS/1; I had to run the 'other' systems: Call/360 and DataText (I think it was). I could see the juni