Re: FileZilla not connecting to z/OS V3.1 - it used to

One of the first things I do with a possible server issue is issue a DOS or line command something like this, with ip address and port number: telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 21 I believe every TCPIP client, even one doing encrypted sessions, first calls the "connect()" C routine, and that includes tel

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

f a mile will get you to understand. Steve Thompson On 7/24/2025 6:28 PM, Tom Brennan wrote: Personally, I rather you just skip over any offers that don't meet your needs, instead of making responses like that which can reflect on all of us. On 7/24/2025 2:47 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: Up

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

Personally, I rather you just skip over any offers that don't meet your needs, instead of making responses like that which can reflect on all of us. On 7/24/2025 2:47 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: Update - I just received my FedEx tracking information for my Laptop I now have been contacted for TCS/

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

+1 On 7/23/2025 10:10 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: First of all, IMHO it is off-topic. It is off-topic despite we see "system programmers" keywords here. It is off-topic, because it not mainframe-specific issue, rather it's an issue of IT or even wider - about world economy and remote work po

Re: IBM CMOS Processor Table

to V6 with nothing in between. On 7/11/2025 11:09 PM, P H wrote: The 'G' refers to the generation of CMOS server and not the marketing name 🙂 Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of

Re: IBM CMOS Processor Table

Nice! But it says G16 for the z17. On 7/11/2025 2:06 PM, Jim Elliott wrote: I have updated my CMOS Processor Table with the z17 and also fixed all the links that IBM broke in their website reorg. Some of the older information is no

Re: APF authorized TSO programs

Or D IKJTSO since people are now asking him to display the current settings. On 6/30/2025 9:11 AM, Steve Beaver wrote: It’s easier to issue a SET IKJTSO=xx command Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb On Jun 30, 2025, at 11:08, Lizette Koehler wrote: I am late to

Re: APF authorized TSO programs

Did you issue PARMLIB UPDATE(xx) after making changes to IKJTSOxx? On 6/29/2025 2:49 PM, Joseph Reichman wrote: Hi I have any APF authorized program It’s in the STEPLIB ( and the only one in my steplib ) of my TSO logon PROC I have the program name in the AUTHPGM NAMES and AUTHCMD NAMES of my

Re: 3420 environmentals?

You reminded me of when I worked on the 3rd floor of an office building in Long Beach CA, overlooking the open parking lot right next to an old apartment building. Someone called me, "Hey Tom, you need to move your car right away!" It was parked near the apartment building and the alleged wif

Re: Is there an equivalent of an S-con for a long displacement?

Yes, it was a joke. Nobody in their right mind would code those. I hope :) On 6/21/2025 11:29 PM, Leonard D Woren wrote: Note however that the only opcode more or less guaranteed to be invalid forever, per PoP, is x'00'. /Leonard Tom Brennan wrote on 6/19/2025 1:08 PM: Nice! The

Re: Is there an equivalent of an S-con for a long displacement?

That code doesn't take a dump. I'd need ABEND 1234,DUMP for that. On 6/20/2025 9:12 AM, Schmitt, Michael wrote: The WTO will change the registers, so your dump will not be the true situation. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Br

Re: Is there an equivalent of an S-con for a long displacement?

don't need to have z/XDC to use the #DIE macro. IHTH, Dave Cole, Developer dbc...@gmail.com (personal) dbc...@colesoft.com (business) 540-456-6518 (cell) At 6/19/2025 04:08 PM, Tom Brennan wrote: Nice!  These seem to work too:   DC    C'ABEND 0C1'   DC    C'

Re: REXX say & OOREXX was: In IBM-land, AFP means...

You snipped my link about the Stooges :) That was the only reason I even commented on this silly argument. On 6/19/2025 9:57 PM, Jon Perryman wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 22:59:44 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: On 6/18/2025 8:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: And in BASIC, "PRINT" (st

Re: Is there an equivalent of an S-con for a long displacement?

Nice! These seem to work too: DCC'ABEND 0C1' DCC'S0C6' On 6/19/2025 11:55 AM, Leonard D Woren wrote:      DC X'00C1'. abend S0C1 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: In IBM-land, AFP means...

On 6/18/2025 8:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: And in BASIC, "PRINT" (still) means "Display on Terminal." That still makes more sense than "SAY" in REXX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqi70YWbuO0&t=23s -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: RESPONSES NOT SHOWN

Type LOG or ULOG in SDSF and then you can scroll up and down through all the response lines. On 6/7/2025 8:54 PM, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Bill D wrote: Sorry for the basic question. In SDSF, I entered "/D IOS,CONFIG(HSA) ", got "16 RESPONSES NOT SHOWN". How do I review those 16 in SDSF? -

Re: the SHARE songbook

lbdyck/CBTView https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WlSWqc9K6KjLDn8Tyk_9AtfE_a54EV2s?usp=sharing On 5/13/2025 7:43 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: I ... guess so? I thought that going to a URL and clicking a link there qualified as "easier"? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Dis

Re: the SHARE songbook

My point was apparently missed. On 5/13/2025 3:50 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: It (the 2009 version) is now at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WlSWqc9K6KjLDn8Tyk_9AtfE_a54EV2s?usp=sharing Let me know if it doesn't work for ya. --

Re: the SHARE songbook

1) Go to www.cbttape.org 2) Click CBT 3) Find and download CBT033.ZIP 4) Unzip to get FILE033.XMI 5) Upload the XMI file to TSO 6) RECEIVE INDA(FILE033.XMI) 7) Download FILE033.PDS(SONG2009) to my PC 8) Rename to song2009.doc 9) Double click to open MSWORD Or is there an easier way I don't know a

Re: New version of JOL - a JCL replacement language

On Sun, 4 May 2025 23:10:45 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: Clem posted the original link, so we can assume he has control over the DNS name and the server contents. Do you trust Clem? I do. I've never met Clem. I don't know what he looks like, Why should I trust someone who c

Re: New version of JOL - a JCL replacement language

st credentials theft. If my browser says "don't go there", I won't. Dave At 5/4/2025 08:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sun, 4 May 2025 16:25:21 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: >Just use http://www.jolucl.com/JolDoc/ if you don't want to tell your >browser it's

Re: New version of JOL - a JCL replacement language

roSSL certs, even for testing. No more hassles, no more evil red marks on the browser URL line. On 5/4/2025 5:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sun, 4 May 2025 16:25:21 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: Just use http://www.jolucl.com/JolDoc/ if you don't want to tell your browser it's ok

Re: New version of JOL - a JCL replacement language

Just use http://www.jolucl.com/JolDoc/ if you don't want to tell your browser it's ok to use the self-signed cert. Not a big deal for a web site where you're not entering your bank userid and password. On 5/4/2025 4:12 PM, Michael Oujesky wrote: Perhaps should be .org? At 04:44 PM 5/4/20

Re: Day of week from a program

rmat is always as follows: MM/DD/.JJJ N WEEKDAY Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:12:45 -0700, T

Re: Exits reassembly

consequences should apply (pun intended). Regards, David On 2025-04-21 17:00, Tom Brennan wrote: If I wasn't sure, I'd assemble the alleged production source, then disassemble both the new and existing modules and compare. Sometimes I'd find explainable differences, like cha

Re: Exits reassembly

If I wasn't sure, I'd assemble the alleged production source, then disassemble both the new and existing modules and compare. Sometimes I'd find explainable differences, like changes to IBM macro expansions. But sometimes I'd find pieces missing, which probably meant the latest production sou

Re: Day of week from a program

Nice! And I'd bet similar programs are all over the place, just not standardized. For example, I was told to write something similar in the 1990's for the COBOL programmers to use. Date conversion, finding Christmas, things like that. I gave up at Easter. Has anybody mentioned running the

Re: z17

That's different than what I've found so far. I went to ResourceLink just now and entered basically the same data for a z15, z16, and z17 as: Single CEC drawer 20 Processors active 2048 GB 5 I/O drawers 40 FICON ports 10 OSA 10G fiber 10 OSA 1G fiber 10 OSA 1G copper Results, assuming I added

Re: ISPF EDIT CHANGE regex requirements?

in EBCDIC then submits to the mainframe? On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM Tom Brennan wrote: So I have an ISPF edit plug-in, where instead of the normal dataset edit, something else happens. That something else starts up a "desktop display" of ssh/sftp/X11/NFS, I assume by having that

Re: ISPF EDIT CHANGE regex requirements?

So I have an ISPF edit plug-in, where instead of the normal dataset edit, something else happens. That something else starts up a "desktop display" of ssh/sftp/X11/NFS, I assume by having that plug-in work as a client, talking to a server on my PC to handle the ssh/ssftp/X11/NFS activity, sinc

Re: ISPF EDIT CHANGE regex requirements?

Since you mentioned X11 and DSFS maybe I don't understand the original question. On 4/11/2025 7:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:41:57 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: I read Frank's question as, "How do I get an editor that responds to a character key pres

Re: ISPF EDIT CHANGE regex requirements?

I read Frank's question as, "How do I get an editor that responds to a character key press to work in an environment that has no such ability?" On 4/11/2025 5:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 23:32:55 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: How would vim execute in a TN3270 session? I

Re: WORM backup tapes block ransomeware attacks?

el (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Brennan Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 6:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: WORM backu

Re: WORM backup tapes block ransomeware attacks?

Congrats on a successful test. I was keeper of the written procedures and also watched over shoulders at each test. All had issues, but basically every test was smoother than the one before. The original goal was to get things so smooth that anyone could do the work - manager, security guard

Re: New z16's packing slips

PH is right - ask the person who did the eConfig order. That produces a *.CHP text file that shows the I/O cards and PCHID numbers, including any ICA cards in the CEC drawer. There's a *.PHP (placement report) that shows the same info in an old-style ASCII graphic. There's also a *.TXT file

Re: Links for ESS manuals

IBM should remove the version number from the URL's for the latest doc. Then maybe Google will get the hint and quit sending me to old versions, unless I'm specifically looking for those. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/< current https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0 < old https://www

Re: IBM wins against LzLabs

Wow! Thanks Phil. On 3/10/2025 8:37 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: Various articles, most of which basically add no more detail than my Subject: line; https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-regulation/legal/ibm-wins-lawsuit-against-lzlabs-over-mainframe-patents-603173 has the most.

Re: Mystified by FTP working for one user but not another

On 3/12/2025 11:39 AM, Farley, Peter wrote: To quote the old cereal commercial, “Try it! You’ll like it!”. We just need to find someone named Mikey who hates everything :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEXzx-TINc -- For IB

Re: Stupid outages you caused

Careful with #3. A sysprog once deleted a RACF profile ("I don't know what that is, so I'll delete it") which caused JES2 to fail to start. Copy that to your rescue pack and it's also in trouble. On 3/7/2025 5:05 AM, Jay Maynard wrote: 1. It's a lot easier to build a one pack z/OS on a 3390-5

Re: Change WTO to blinking via MPF exit

I know of one terminal emulator that turns off blinking by default. In that one you have to click the Display tab in the Options window to enable it. On 2/11/2025 9:21 PM, Brian Westerman wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up the ability to make a message "blink" on the operator console. I can d

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

"even with the Carbon design" LOL On 1/26/2025 7:26 PM, kekronbekron wrote: Once again, TechDocs is gold. Why can't IBM make a simple page of these docs with metadata about them (date created/modified). Make it as flashy as you want, but a simple table isn't hard to create, even with the Carb

Re: File transfer question

On z/OS 3.1, I just created a 3 line member in my FB/80 CNTL PDS as: 000 11 22 That's unnumbered, so there's nothing but spaces to the right. I downloaded to my PC with ASCII turned off but CRLF turned on. IND$FILE (and the terminal emulator) gave me this: 00

Re: REXX Outtrap Secret

Terminal emulator scraping! If you can see it, you can grab it :) But yeah, I would have never thought of Session manager. On 1/17/2025 5:58 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: Session Manager. You need a different logon proc. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נ

Re: File transfer question

Sorry, my memory stops at 20 years. New stuff has to go somewhere and there's only so much space! On 1/16/2025 12:38 PM, David Spiegel wrote: 20?! ... How about 40? On 2025-01-16 15:29, Tom Brennan wrote: Ha - I knew someone would correct my 20 year old JCL copy/paste :) On 1/16/2025

Re: File transfer question

-16 13:15, Tom Brennan wrote: DCB=(RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=23440,LEECH=80) On 1/16/2025 9:07 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: "leech"? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2025 11:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: File transfer question

DCB=(RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=23440,LEECH=80) On 1/16/2025 9:07 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: "leech"? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2025 11:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: File transfer question We

Re: EXTERNAL Email: Re: AutoIPL

/2025 8:35 AM, Jerry Whitteridge wrote: I remember Skip talking about that at the time. He was puzzled for a bit . Jerry Whitteridge Sr Manager Managed Services jerry.whitteri...@albertsons.com 480 578 7889 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent

Re: history and evolution of INFO/MVS, INFO/VM-VSE etc.

I don't know where it came from, it was just a reel of tape that arrived on my desk one day. That was one of my first tasks as a new sysprog in 1983. What I really remember was users asking for changes to the screens, and the only way to edit them in V1 was by fiddling with the hex 3270 codes

Re: AutoIPL

The only problem I remember was a Dev system early morning auto IPL that we didn't even notice until maybe a day later. I think after that we started a task at IPL time that sent us an email. On 1/10/2025 11:05 AM, David Purdy wrote: The only problem with Autoipl is if an LPAR abends, it ke

Re: Job opening at Cigna

Sounds really good! But I had to chuckle at z/OS, Z/OS, z/os, and Z/oS all on the same page :) On 12/27/2024 11:45 AM, Darrold Usher wrote: https://cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/cignacareers/job/Infrastructure-Engineering-Senior-Advisor_24012359 -

Re: Dumping control blocks on your system easily

Yes, as soon as I found out about SYSMDUMP/IPCS I never used SYSUDUMP/SYSABEND again. But it's still good to see code from Sam Bass. I worked with him on a mainframe installation around 2016 and he was one of those people who could do everything from A-Z. I think he's retired now. On 12/27

Re: z16 HMC LAN connections

t HMA can communicate with each other. All cables that plug into the HMA have the other ends of the cables all plugged into network switches. Tom Chicklon Fifth Third Bank From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 2:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSE

Re: z16 HMC LAN connections

I'm a little confused. You said no cabling was required between HMC and SE functions on an HMA. But then you said you have 4 cables in each HMA - 2 for SE and 2 for HMC, I assume to switches where they can talk to each other. Personally, I was under the impression the cables are required and

Re: Heh, "Sabre is Getting Off the Mainframe-One Way or Another"

Great notes. The lines that I think are most important: "the real value of Z today is in the captured intelligence/knowledge in those custom applications" "Pretending that it can't happen is foolish" On 11/30/2024 6:56 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: Right, it can and does happen. ... -

Re: What is a "programming language"? Was:: Modifying JCL on the fly

I explain it as simply a table of things to do, and I try not to use the L-word. On 11/11/2024 6:39 PM, Don Leahy wrote: When explaining it to newcomers I describe JCL as a special type of scripting language where the logic flows in just one direction. No loops, no backwards branching, etc. i

Re: Israel

I'm pretty sure he would go away if he got zero replies. But it has to be zero. On 10/3/2024 10:53 AM, Jousma, David wrote: He will just come back using another pseudonym Dave Jousma Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering ---

Re: Question on HLASM - B to a DROP statement!?!

It better not, otherwise things like this wouldn't give the right length. STRING DC C'SOME LENGTH STRING' STRINGL EQU *-STRING Loc Object CodeAddr1 Addr2 Stmt Source Statement 114 * 54 116 STARTDSCL1

Re: in Defense of FTP. FUD rules

From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2024 9:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: in Defense of FTP. FUD rules On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:07:21 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: Tha

Re: in Defense of FTP. FUD rules

Thanks! It seemed like we were only picking on poor FTP. On 9/26/2024 3:51 PM, Joel Ewing wrote: On 9/26/24 11:57, Tom Brennan wrote: > Any attacker with access to FTP on zOS who > knows valid zOS userids can quickly attempt logins on all of them with a > small number of bad pass

Re: in Defense of FTP. FUD rules

> Any attacker with access to FTP on zOS who > knows valid zOS userids can quickly attempt logins on all of them with a > small number of bad passwords and disable logins to those userids by > their valid users. Can't an attacker do the same via almost any connection method, such as SSH, TN3270,

Re: Mainframe FTP status

The only place I've ever seen the details of IND$FILE communication is in a 1995 document that I'll assume IBM provided to the terminal emulator companies at the time. It describes both the older screen-style mode and the newer mode. I'm not sure where/when I got it. 2010 according to the fi

Re: Mainframe FTP status

> I have the skills to do that. Me too and it sounds like fun. On 9/25/2024 2:01 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Really? Is there serious interest in a modern IND$FILE? UNIX file support? What else? I have the skills to do that. Is there really serious interest? Charles On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:18:5

Re: Is z/OS FTP encrypted?

I think he means standard telnet not TN3270. But TN3270 clear text connections are basically the same as telnet or any other TCPIP client/server - other than some negotiation and actions specific to the TN3270/TN3270E protocols. TN3270 encrypted sessions, on the other hand, start out with the

Re: EVENTLOG in SYSOUT JES

I think so. In the mid 1980's I would submit a job on hold with the JCL I wanted to test, use INPUT ON and print $INTTEXT to a dataset. Then I had a test version of the exit 6 I was working on that would run under TSO TEST and read each line of that dataset to simulate it being passed from JE

Re: Minor Announcement

Ditto. I never saw any better help with a product for the occasional user. On 8/16/2024 9:56 AM, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: Congratulations on your new role and thank you for ALL your help with DFSort. Lionel B. Dyck <>< Github: https://github.com/lbdyck System Z Enthusiasts Discord: https://disco

Re: 3270 programming

gone rather than hidden at a new URL? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2024 8:45

Re: 3270 programming

I don't think TN3270/TN3270E protocols are related to this manual. They're basically just a layer used to pass the binary 3270 data stream back and forth. But Lennie has a good point. I have a printed copy -05 from 1990 and it's pretty beat up. I seem to remember it on an IBM doc site until

Re: CBU upgrade

Besides the Redbook PH mentioned, check with the SSR who will be applying the update. Maybe there's something in the MES install notes that says "nondisruptive" or similar. But don't wait until the last week to apply the MES. Very rarely, there are problems with an SE that don't show up unti

Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical CTCs ?

inches, 3.3 feet, 1.1 yards). On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 11:28 AM Tom Brennan wrote: And don't do like I did a few years ago :) A co-worker ordered four 3-meter FICON cables for CTC connections from one card to another on the same machine. Since I'm American I don't really know how

Re: GRS in MONOPLEX without physical CTCs ?

And don't do like I did a few years ago :) A co-worker ordered four 3-meter FICON cables for CTC connections from one card to another on the same machine. Since I'm American I don't really know how long a meter is so I said "sure". When I went on site, a couple of cables had to run from one

Re: RACF permission to INETD OTELNET port?

nd it works. I cannot figure out which BPX* resource would control this (23) and how. On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 06:01:03 -0700 Tom Brennan wrote: :>I'm not sure if Attila was saying to try this, but if you can change the :>port to something higher than 1024 and the bind works, that would :>

Re: RACF permission to INETD OTELNET port?

I'm not sure if Attila was saying to try this, but if you can change the port to something higher than 1024 and the bind works, that would indicate you're not really root at the time of the bind. Then if the userid starting the task is root, maybe somebody is doing a setuid() or similar before

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

That was going to be my question too... Why? Of course it would be fun to try, but since Jason wrote: "Additionally, I am interested in understanding the differences between installing Hercules on Linux versus Windows." ... he could do that on an x86 box. Still, I can just imagine Hercules em

Re: Mounted file systems vs BPXPRMxx

Or a user-created mount script at IPL time, which is what we did. We didn't have a whole lot in BPXPRMxx, as I remember. On 5/28/2024 11:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2024 17:13:21 +, Mark Jacobs wrote: Are there any tools/products/methods to assist in ascertain whether the

Re: VTOCs vs. catalogs

I think I remember the DIRF bit. That happened when I would, for example, run a DFDSS full volume backup of a mod-3 and restore to a mod-9, and there was a warning message indicating I needed to allocate a dataset in order to force the processing that would determine the new free space on the

Re: VTOCs vs. catalogs

Thanks! You answered my questions. I always figured there was a time before catalogs, when I assume you had to code VOL=SER= on everything, but that was before my time. And I was trying to remember the CVOL method. I started with ICFCAT's but come to think of it, there may have been one or

Re: Control dispatcher time-slice?

Maybe it's not possible for this situation, but when I would test my own multi-TCB code, I'd add a temporary STIMER WAIT or similar at a point where a TCB1 was holding whatever TCB2 was trying to get. That would force TCB2 to wait or fail or whatever it was supposed to do in such a case. For

Re: Netview

UNICOM. In the early 80's I worked at the same place as Corry Hong, founder. He had his first saleable program running for testing, a CICS monitor I think, but he was running it all in the main CICS task. He came over to my desk and I showed him how to use the ATTACH macro. Did I get any sha

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM key management products

indle. 😊 Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 1:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM key management products We use SKLM/GKLM for data-at-rest encryption of DS8000/TS7000 devices, all

Re: IBM key management products

We use SKLM/GKLM for data-at-rest encryption of DS8000/TS7000 devices, all internal disk storage, no external cartridge tapes. So what does that do for the customer, since (unless you're using an additional form of encryption on the mainframe) the data is still spit out of the devices unencryp

Re: Liberty_zos

I missed the question. Yes, the WAS in "Liberty WAS Version: 23.0.0.9" appears to be from the GKLM product. Probably unchanged since it was rebranded from SKLM which did use WAS. On 4/11/2024 6:32 AM, David Follis wrote: Hi Tom, GKLM embeds a copy of Liberty inside their product. I don't k

Re: Liberty_zos

Thanks! Great having IBMer's participate here, by the way. On 4/11/2024 6:32 AM, David Follis wrote: Hi Tom, GKLM embeds a copy of Liberty inside their product. I don't know if that's Open Liberty or WebSphere Liberty but it probably doesn't really make any difference on zLinux. All that wo

Re: Liberty_zos

Great notes! A couple of questions (for Linux, but it should relate) So right now I'm working with GKLM (Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager, to encrypt-at-rest DS/TS storage) and when I display Help/About in the GKLM 4.2.0 GUI it shows: Liberty WAS Version: 23.0.0.9 1) That must be Web

Re: Posting issues - why do some posts have anonymous FROM-addresses?

Your own email is an example :) Here's what I see using Thunderbird: https://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/email_address.png On 4/10/2024 8:30 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:50:03 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: I just noticed that some posts here show the poster's own email addres

Re: Signing off

Happy retirement! Tom Brennan - formerly O'Brennan a long time ago, I've heard. On 2/26/2024 11:51 AM, Sean Gleann wrote: This list has been a great source of ideas and information, although I've never really been a 'contributor' here, but more of a 'lurker'.

Re: Getting rid of a z14 zr1 - any value in the host cards?

Some years back one of our clients ordered some used cards for their z13 from Top Gun Technology. On 2/24/2024 1:40 PM, Laurence Chiu wrote: Any pointers to companies that trade in used IBM parts. Ebay seems like too generic a place to post stuff. On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 3:19 AM Mike Smith wr

Re: Insecure security - was SDSF PS Command column

When I'm home my laptop is on a shelf under my desk, connected to a KVM switch so I can swap to it using my desktop keyboard and screen. I had standard black electrical tape covering the camera and on a meeting I expected to see black for my image, but I saw legs (in pants). I'm guessing the

Re: How read Cyl 0 from within a program?

I just took a look. That's a good example of an EXCP with its own CCW, which is the way I would have attempted this. Just wondering, how did you find this on the CBT? I always have to ask Sam. On 2/14/2024 5:14 AM, Joe Monk wrote: Take a look at the CBT, file 846. I believe the TRK0SAVE pr

Re: Banks migrate from mainframes to AI-driven cloud

LOL! On 2/10/2024 4:30 PM, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: " I have not seen a RISC system in 30 years" " Sent from my iPhone" What irony. Lennie -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

Thanks Timothy, and thanks to others who helped with my side questions. On 1/24/2024 2:20 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: So Timothy (and probably just for me), I've seen a couple of sites without crypto HSM cards not bother to run ICSF. Can I assume in that case there's pretty-much no way any encryp

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

Woah... right now I'm only about 1000 miles from Timothy so I get to see his responses in real time and not California time :) So Timothy (and probably just for me), I've seen a couple of sites without crypto HSM cards not bother to run ICSF. Can I assume in that case there's pretty-much no w

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

al CP ? On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 9:59 AM Tom Brennan wrote: Even though you don't have a crypto processor, do you have CPACF on the box? Most machines I've seen do, because it's a no-charge feature. I don't know for sure, but I thought I heard that you can start ICSF without

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

Even though you don't have a crypto processor, do you have CPACF on the box? Most machines I've seen do, because it's a no-charge feature. I don't know for sure, but I thought I heard that you can start ICSF without a crypto card and it will use CPACF for some of the heavier encryption proces

Re: SMF Interval (and zCP3000)

I do some zCP3000 work too, and to avoid the transfer of large amounts of SMF data, I ask the client to run the CP3KEXTR extract program which (as you know) takes only what is needed for zCP3000 and creates reasonably sized text files that can generally be emailed. CP3KEXTR has an option to se

Re: What is the PDS command?

Possibly the only file on the CBT that has its own web page, and it certainly deserves it. I can't imagine working without it. Thanks to John Kalinich and all those who came before. On 12/27/2023 2:05 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: https://www.cbttape.org/freepds.htm On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 3:58 AM

Re: RETRY - was ARR and CSVQUERY

Thanks Peter! Yes, it was the surprise of an 0C4 when I expected 0C1. Sometimes when totally confusing things like that happen I first assume the computer itself is at fault, not the code I'm working on. And guess what, it's always the code :) On 12/24/2023 5:58 AM, Peter Relson wrote: Tom

Re: Dataset File System

Side note: It's interesting you mentioned grep because the first time I saw DSFS that's the command I wanted to run, to do searching that has always been a bit difficult in MVS but easy in Unix. On 12/23/2023 8:17 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 12/22/2023 3:37 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: Has anyone ma

Re: RETRY - was ARR and CSVQUERY

Yes, and I'd add: if you get 4096 - free 4096 Don't free 1024 like I did once. Code like that tests just fine but then dies 8 hours later when the address space runs out :) On 12/23/2023 8:12 AM, Colin Paice wrote: Expanding on what Peter said. It is horses for courses. If you are writing a

Re: RETRY - was ARR and CSVQUERY

Thanks Peter! I always appreciate your responses and also the responses from others at IBM. But I was trying to ask a question that I may not be able to ask correctly. Let me try anyway: I was referring to my experience with a JES2 exit which setup its own recovery routine. In that code yo

Re: RETRY - was ARR and CSVQUERY

Nevermind, my question wasn't clear and I don't know how to better explain it. On 12/22/2023 5:25 PM, Jon Perryman wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 15:07:33 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: So are you implying that in z/OS there are environments where I can run a program without any buil

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