Re: IBM Announces z/OS 3.2

2025-07-24 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Doing a search on NoSQLz, I find that was developed by Thierry Falissard. There is a copy on the CBT tape (file 910). On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:24:56 +, Amr@Systemz wrote: > >There was a product called NoSQLz about 10 years ago. Is EzNoSQL the same >product ? On Tuesday, July 22, 2025 a

Re: Check for ENQ at GDG level from rexx (non-ispf)

2025-05-06 Thread Peter Vander Woude
ng for dynalloc. peter On Tue, 6 May 2025 13:42:05 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 6 May 2025 11:29:33 -0500, Peter Vander Woude wrote: > >>We have a file transfer tool, that is used to send data to z/OS, however if >>the dataset is a gdg, and there is a disp=old on the gdg

Re: Check for ENQ at GDG level from rexx (non-ispf)

2025-05-06 Thread Peter Vander Woude
SYSDSN,.dsn) > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of >Peter Vander Woude >Sent: Tuesday, May 6, 2025 11:30 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Check for ENQ at GDG level from rexx (non-ispf) > >We have a file transfer too

Check for ENQ at GDG level from rexx (non-ispf)

2025-05-06 Thread Peter Vander Woude
We have a file transfer tool, that is used to send data to z/OS, however if the dataset is a gdg, and there is a disp=old on the gdg, the dynamic allocation fails and the transfer job also fails. We can have them run a script prior to the actual transfer and I want to be able to check if there

Re: "Colossus"

2025-03-06 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I loved reading that book, way back in college (P1, that is). Peter On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 07:40:56 -0500, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Bill Hitefield wrote: >Tim, > >You probably already know of it, but "The Adolescence of P1" the computer is a >main character. Not sure how old it is. I've had my

Re: Enqueue Question

2025-02-19 Thread Peter Vander Woude
We run into this type of issue a lot, with the MQ/MFT transfer tool and batch jobs, as the agent portion runs as a STC. If the batch job submits to send a file, but has any step, after the step running the request to send the file, that references the file to do something like delete the datase

Re: New IBM Processor Innovations To Accelerate AI

2024-08-28 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Tim, Thanks for the link. While the initial discussion, from that link, seemed a little light on some of the details, I found a very good article, that seems to dive into the guts of the new TELUM II processor and Spyre card. https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-telum-ii-processor-and-spyre-ai-upd

Re: PPRC between different vendor disk systems

2024-07-26 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Alan, Having worked with both Hitachi and IBM, for open systems storage replication, I can say that the method for handling replication on each vendor's storage is completely different and would not work at all with each other. I can only guess, that it also works that way for mainframe disk.

Re: Data Set Commander Monitor (DSCMON) Access Authority

2024-06-26 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Mike, I have normally been on the RACF-L list, however, since changing jobs last year, I've had some problems with the e-mails from the list getting through to my new e-mail address. I, personally, have not seen work running without a valid RACF userid associated with it, though I have been in

Re: Data Set Commander Monitor (DSCMON) Access Authority

2024-06-25 Thread Peter Vander Woude
R.S. One of the reasons to use ACCESS(READ) ID(*) and not UACC(READ) would be that the first forces the user accessing the programs to actually be a racf userid. I believe, that if you have a job, come across via NJE, it is possible that the submitting system did not provide a userid, and woul

Re: Setup Filezila for MF to PC transfers

2023-08-28 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Lizette, When setting up the site in site manager, click on the Advanced tab and set server type to MVS,OS/390, z/OS. Then specify the remote directory as your tso userid, in quotes. Peter On Sat, 26 Aug 2023 08:14:48 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >Dearest List > > > >I am hoping someone

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

2023-06-13 Thread Peter Vander Woude
sure to mark the certificate as trusted. Peter On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:36:34 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:22:03 -0500, Peter Vander Woude wrote: > >>What I have done, to get these certificates, is to look at the keystore on >>the pc, and save a copy of t

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

2023-06-12 Thread Peter Vander Woude
What I have done, to get these certificates, is to look at the keystore on the pc, and save a copy of the certauth record from there, in base64 .cer format. Then edit it, copy and past into a dataset on the mainframe. Peter On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:13:54 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Mon, 1

Re: z/OS Comm Server - LACP?

2023-06-05 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Mike, While z/OS doesn't support LACP, if your networking folks support OSPF areas, you can sort-of setup an environment where the OSPF is balancing the inbound traffic between the various OSA connections and your main IP address's are VIPA's. Long Long ago, when I was running ADSM on z/OS,

FTPS/HTTPS to testcase sites via proxy (cross posted from IBMTCP-L)

2023-04-28 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Has anyone been able to setup their jobs, that send diagnostic data to IBM, via ftps or https using a proxy? Now for us, the https is not as straight forward as a normal proxy. Ours requires us to pass and indicate it's to use ntlm authentication (that's what we have to specify in the smp/e re

Re: SMF data - Writing

2022-03-16 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Peter, Has anyone started working with Zowe on your system? If so, you'll see a jump in the smf records for tcpip. Just a thought. Peter On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:16:52 +0400, Peter wrote: >Hello > >In last few days our SMF man dataset is getting filled quickly and usually >our SMF man dataset

Re: Long time between IPLs a security risk? was Re: What is OVMSKERN?

2021-12-22 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Bill, While red alerts can be good, they do not provide information on Security/Integrity apars that have been generated. To get those, you have be subscribed to the IBM Z Security Portal portion of Resource Link. Peter On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 03:59:25 +, Bill Johnson wrote: >You’re thinkin

Re: Words fail me!

2021-11-15 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Prior to IBM introducing OMVS to z/OS, the term USS was used by VTAM as the acronym for Unformatted System Services. Once OMVS was introduced, I do seem to remember a bit of discussion on the use of USS, as VTAM folks used it, and it was starting to be used by the folks pushing for more use of

Re: System Programmer Titles

2021-10-12 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I've had several different titles during my tenure at my current company. Currently it's Systems Administrator. Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu wit

Re: Programs that work right the first time.

2021-08-25 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I think the only time I wrote something that ran correctly the first time, was back in college coding in assembler on a Univac EXEC O/S system, where I was writing a program for a class, and I did have the program working, but didn't like how I had written one section, and completely rewrote the

Re: Programe CCNDRVR not compiling-Event-Action blocking

2021-06-28 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Vinoth, Are you seeing any IDC3009I messages. A s913 abend is usually a security related issue. It looks like you have EventAction active on your system, and it is not allowing the CCNDRVR program to be run. I'm not conversant with how EventAction works, but maybe it has rules to limit on

Re: Storage Zoning clarification

2021-05-12 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Yes it does. From the HCD manual, there's a section that talks about them Defining a special FBA device (FBA) You can use a new type of disk devices, known as Fixed Block Architecture (FBA) or Fixed Block (FB) devices. Devices of this type may be considered as a data bridge between z/OS syste

Re: Storage Zoning clarification

2021-05-11 Thread Peter Vander Woude
FCP connected SCSI drives is done via san zoning. Considering that IOSFBA is a function within z/OS. I don't know how that connectivity works. Peter On Tue, 11 May 2021 15:47:31 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >What about IOSFBA and FCP connected SCSI drives? > > >-- >Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >

Re: Storage Zoning clarification

2021-05-11 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I can comment on this, as I do san admin (along with z/OS and a couple of other things). From the z/OS perspective, it only deals with 3390 dasd architecture, and 3490/3590 tapes, and is connected via FICON, which may or may not go thru a FICON director. On the ficon director there is a config

Re: Now it's easier to find stuff on the CBT Tape

2021-05-03 Thread Peter Vander Woude
locsite fwfriendly sets it so that the client is the source for all connections going to the remote ftp server (in ftp terms it's a PASV mode connection). When the ftp server is running, the config on the server can specify a range of ports that it can tell the client to connect to it for the da

Re: IBM Encryption Facility for OpenPGP

2021-04-20 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Paul, In the normal pgp encryption processing, you encrypt the file using the public key of the target system/vendor. There should be no need to use the passphrase, when encrypting a file to send to someone... The passphrase used on the other side would be so that they can get access to the

Re: Upgrade from z/os 2.3 to 2.4 decrease PVT storage

2021-03-24 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Carmen, Do you have any usermods that move any of the LE runtime programs from SCEERUN to SCEELPA? I tried this once, and with 30 programs moved over, I lost 1M in private region size. I do load them into lpa, but I do it via a SET PROG of a member that does LPA ADD. Peter -

Re: Contents of TOD Programmable Field under z/OS?

2021-03-20 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Peter, I don't know if this could be the base of what you need, however I'd like to point you to a github page for something that Walmart did for generating unique zUID, guaranteed to be unique until the year 34,000 (built with patent pending algorithm). It was built as a cloud solution, howev

Re: TSO timeout S622

2020-12-29 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Dean, It's not the SMF JWT that's kicking the users off. That would be a S522 abend. Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAI

Re: setting up CSSMTP to use TLS-SSL

2020-09-01 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Brian, I do use AT-TLS with CSSMTP to our internal e-mail relay. For the keyring, you need to add the CA's that have signed the ssl cert for the server. If the e-mail server is using a self-signed certificate, you need them to send a copy of it (only the public portion) and it has to be added

Re: Using NTP

2020-07-17 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Gadi, In order for your z/OS lpars to stay in line with the NTP servers time, you will need to change your CLOCKxx member to look like this: OPERATOR NOPROMPT STPZONE YES STPMODE YES TIMEDELTA 10 An IPL will be required to put this into effect. Peter -

Re: IPSEC Configuration and Performance

2020-07-03 Thread Peter Vander Woude
We did setup an ipsec tunnel between our z/os system down to a group of devices. Our environment may be different in that the tunnel goes to our firewall, which the devices are in a secure vlan behind the firewall. a couple of notes: 1) the ipsec tunnel definition is between your base (i.e./ pr

Re: SMP/e maintenance methodologies

2020-06-23 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Jerry, I take the SMPHRPT, write it to a dataset, then use TXT2PDF to create a pdf. Download it, and when reviewing it, I put post its in the doc and comments about what the action is, or just a reminder to look at the action doc. Peter

Re: Catalogs in parallel sysplex ECS vs RLS

2020-04-24 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Thank-you all for your responses. Again the IBM-Main community shows it's strength. I think I'll be sticking with ECS at the moment. Much appreciated, Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, se

Catalogs in parallel sysplex ECS vs RLS

2020-04-23 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Ok, building parallel sysplex. For the catalogs I am planning on using ECS for the shared catalogs (which is all of them). What is the recommended method for handling the catalogs in a parallel sysplex, ECS or VSAM RLS? Thanks, Peter ---

Re: IBM AOAR O44855

2020-01-23 Thread Peter Vander Woude
The apar is meant to deal with those types of hacks, where someone has a list of userids and then just try to logon to TSO by connecting and attempting to logon to TSO. Without the apar/parm, the normal logon screen shows the person IF the userid actually has a TSO profile.d When the correct p

Re: File 228 CBT tape - HSM panel recovery

2019-05-17 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I just submitted to the cbt site, an updated file 228, that works correctly. The problem lies in how the clist was parsing the output from the hsm command. The format changed a long time ago. I had got it working for me, just didn't think about submitting the changes. Peter

Re: Can backup mechanisms be used to steal RACF database? was Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-05-09 Thread Peter Vander Woude
On Tue, 7 May 2019 09:26:58 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: >Could someone use DF/DSS, DF/HSM, FDR or FDR/ABR to copy the database >and then download the dump of the database? > >Clark Morris >> Clark, If they have read access to the database, yes. That's what happened in the Swedish bank hack, b

8 character userid and submit of batch jobs

2019-03-19 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I'm testing out the TSO support of 8 character userids, and am running into the scenario where when that user, submits a job with it's userid as the jobname, I'm getting TSO messages, that say "jobname truncated" and "Userid plus jobname characters cannot exceed maximum jobname length of 8". Ac

Re: SCLM problem

2019-01-17 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Do the datasets for the isv product happen to have the same high level qualifier as an SCLM project? If so, that is the reason you are getting the warning. Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruction

Re: Thanks For All the Fish

2018-12-13 Thread Peter Vander Woude
John, Thanks for all that you have done and best wishes in your retirement! Peter Vander Woude -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: FYI: IEEE Survey Ranks Programming Languages

2018-08-15 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Keep in mind that the article says that as it is IEEE doing the survey, and IEEE's primary membership is Electrical Engineers, the survey is primarily the languages that EE's would be using. Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / si

Re: CBTTAPE - DAF and z/OS V2.1 and above

2018-07-23 Thread Peter Vander Woude
The file out on his webpage shows that DAF hasn't been updated since 2010. I know that recently, I was seeing invalid smf 80 records, but it turns out they are newer subtypes (x'1BB'). I just repeated a couple lines of code, that basically says it's ok, but doesn't process the data. I see in

Re: DAF (CBT 094) - Unknown Datatype x01BB

2018-06-11 Thread Peter Vander Woude
>>Has anyone seen on z/OS2.2 I see DAF is reporting "Unknown Datatype x01BB" >>and while downloading and assemble/linkedit latest CBT 094 >>gives me 0255 >>for various undefined symbol though I have checked the maclib . I see that on z/os 2.1 also. The issue is related to the RACF type 80 with

Re: VSAM Performance - CPU reduction

2018-01-17 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Arun, In the IDCAMS listing, I see that the files are defined NONSPANNED. With the records being variable length, you could have as few as 2 records per ci, since the max is around 11000. if all the records are the minimum of 170, then you would have around 156 records per ci. Have you looke

IEFACTRT and flowerbox with excp consolidation

2017-11-27 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Does anyone have an IEFACTRT exit, that produces a flower box AND processes all the smf30 extension records for when DDCONS is set to NO, so we just get one total for all the EXCP's done to each DDNAME? I've tried the ones on the CBT tape, and none of them seem to do that. Thank, Peter --

Re: BPXWDYN and AVGREC usage

2017-04-28 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Lizette, The error message we see is IGD17272I VOLUME SELECTION HAS FAILED FOR INSUFFICIENT SPACE DATA SET xx.xx.xx.G0014V00 JOBNAME (CTEC004A) STEPNAME (STEP0100) PROGNAME (IKJEFT01) DDNAME (DD1 ) REQUESTED SPACE QUANTITY = 65536000 KB STORCLAS (SCTST) MGMTCLAS (MCEX180) DATACLAS (DCEXST) ST

BPXWDYN and AVGREC usage

2017-04-28 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I've run into an issue that I can't figure out. When using BPXWDYN and trying to use AVGREC parm, the dynamic allocation request is using a HUGE (like 65536000 KB) space allocation request, even though the request is for LRECL(32) and AVGREC(K) with SPACE(8000,500). The REQUEST does have BLKSI

Re: Software vendor trying to force MSU based contract

2017-03-02 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Brian, Per your comment "I don't think the vendor (or anyone) can change the language of a contract that has not expired in any way without the site's written approval. If it's perpetual then I don't see how any vendor company can fight that. They accepted the money and they have to stick wi

Re: RFE for Windows 10 client support in DFS/SMB on z/OS

2016-12-19 Thread Peter Vander Woude
We lost the ability to use it, after Active directory was updated to use signatures. The only option is to turn disable the use of login signatures (not sure if that's the correct term, right now), and that ain't gonna happen, so DFS/SMB ended here. Maybe this request will kick them so that th

Re: how to: convince programmer something else is better.

2016-12-19 Thread Peter Vander Woude
John, Tell them that their cobol routine will probably run around 11 times longer than the current assembler routine. Our programmers used to use a cobol to read in a file, for ebcdic to ascii translation, and then this subprogram would be called for each record to convert from ebcdic to ascii

Re: Anyone using Rocket Software Performance Essential

2015-12-17 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Previously, I have used Performance Essential and when it was implemented it saved huge amounts of time, as it changed what the default vsam buffering mode of NSR and activated LSR. In a prior job, we saved around 10 million i/o's per week for just one application. The products like Performanc

Re: AW: Re: Ported tools and z/OS 2.2

2015-09-21 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Kirk, When you switched over to the Rocket versions, did you have any issues with any perl or php code? Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the me

Re: GRS RESMIL setting on CPU consumption

2014-04-25 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Anthony, If you have DB2 in that plex, I would think twice (or thrice) about increasing the resmil value, as DB2 does heavy enqueue activity. I remember one presentation (I think it was at share or maybe another conference), where someone from IBM GRS presented the following item: Company A i

Re: GRS RESMIL setting on CPU consumption

2014-04-24 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Yes RESMIL(5) will reduce cpu consumption, it will also potentially cause performance delays to your jobs, as each system will hold the enq request for a minimum of 5 ms. If you have any applications that generate alot of enqueues, that need to be sent through the ring, they will run longer. -

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-11 Thread Peter Vander Woude
>Wayne Bickerdike wrote >To Peter Vander Woude >Did you watch the video? If so you missed the display at 2:24 which clearly >shows ADCDMST and SYS1 group access. >In this case, I would wager with you that this is an ADCD system and the >video maker set it all up. >Yes I a

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

2013-12-11 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I'm not sure where everyone saw the ADCDMST userid being used. When I viewed the video, I saw the userid used, for the ftp, to be bt0, and that is set at around the 30 second mark into the video. I agree with many, who have participated in this discussion, that RACF can be configured to reduce

Re: zIIP simulation

2013-11-01 Thread Peter Vander Woude
I know of at least one of our vendors whose product does not generate the srb's that would get dispatched on the zIIP, if it's not there. However, they will, if you ask, take some of the smf data for the sorts and run their analysis of those records, and come back with projections based on your

Re: ADRDSSU performance degradation

2013-05-15 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Ok, Finally figured out the problem. I had inadvertently left component trace for SYSRSM on, after working on debugging a SA78-18 abend. Turned it off, and we're back to normal! Yeah!!! -

Re: ADRDSSU performance degradation

2013-05-15 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Here's some more info. I've got a volume, that is online to our production lpar and one of our test lpars. If I run a full volume dump on my test lpar, it uses 6.88 seconds of cpu time. If I run the job on my production lpar, it uses 20.86 cpu seconds. Using Mainview and doing a trace of whe

Re: ADRDSSU performance degradation

2013-05-15 Thread Peter Vander Woude
1) Full volume backups every 4 hours 2) no control cards were changed 3) no, maintenance was not applied to running libraries (never do that) 4) yes an IPL was done WITH CLPA (it's always done at IPL). 5) Yes maintenance was installed that affects ADRDSSU One other item, during analysis that has b

ADRDSSU performance degradation

2013-05-14 Thread Peter Vander Woude
We are running z/OS 1.11 and in prep for our upgrade to 1.13, we IPL'd last week sunday to implement the ptf's for toleration/compatibility with 1.13. In reviewing our performance last week, we are seeing large cpu time increases in programs such as ADRDSSU, where the week before the IPL, ADRDS

Re: Crypto Facility performance.

2013-04-19 Thread Peter Vander Woude
One other item for consideration is that the performance, thus response, from the CEX will also depend on the encryption algorithm being used. If you are using Triple DES, it will take much longer than if you use AES, even at the 256bit level. Peter ---

Re: HMC & EoR SWITCH

2012-06-25 Thread Peter Vander Woude
When was the modem connectivity abandoned? >>2. Call home. Modem connectivity is abandoned, so VPN is (will be - >>depends on your HW level) the only option. That requires connectivity to >> corpo lan. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe