Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-21 Thread R.S.
Yes, I don't come to SHARE conferences, I wish, but I don't. However it seems I saw the presentation on youtube. AND WHAT? Yes, I can encrypt my own dataset and loose the key. I'm aware of that. My question was about real life case. Every file or dataset can be encrypted or deleted, that's rather

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-21 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Radoslav, Many clients I visited allows local admin authority on windows workstation to the machine user for ease of management. However, we get clients monthly reports on success and failures from some clients of us. Most of them respond well to attacks and block them, so even their workstations

Re: Use of "trap" facility in z/OS?

2019-06-21 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 5:41 PM Chuck wrote: > The TRAP Instructions work fine John. You have used a product that uses > them. > I do? I don't know which product that is. Or is "you" a generic in this case? > > Chuck Arney > > -- Money is the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money.

Re: Use of "trap" facility in z/OS?

2019-06-21 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 6:02 PM Chuck Arney wrote: > The TRAP facility was originally implemented in the hardware for Y2K > support. It was to be used by products to overlay clock related > instructions so different clocks/dates could be simulated. At least that > is what I was told many years

Re: Use of "trap" facility in z/OS?

2019-06-21 Thread Chuck
TDF of course. Chuck Arney > On Jun 21, 2019, at 5:42 AM, John McKown wrote: > >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 6:02 PM Chuck Arney wrote: >> >> The TRAP facility was originally implemented in the hardware for Y2K >> support. It was to be used by products to overlay clock related >> instructions

Re: Use of "trap" facility in z/OS?

2019-06-21 Thread John McKown
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 6:51 AM Chuck wrote: > TDF of course. > Ah, yes. I remember now. We don't actually use it. But it is a nice tool. Too bad our programmers are basically stuck on using the CompuWare suite. > > Chuck Arney > > -- Money is the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all mon

Re: Use of "trap" facility in z/OS?

2019-06-21 Thread Charles Mills
> I'm not sure that any of the hardware architecture has been implemented > specifically for Linux. I certainly do not know one way or the other whether any hardware features were implemented specifically for Linux, but I do not find it impossible, given that there is a whole series of models m

z14 SE clocks sync to HMC/NTP

2019-06-21 Thread Jim Elliott
We have an issue where the 2 Support Elements on a z14 (3907) don't have the same clock value and don't match the HMC clock. The HMC is getting the time from an NTP server. There is no STP in this environment, and all the doc seems to talk about using STP. How do we get the SEs to sync up to the

Hipersocket follows OSI ?

2019-06-21 Thread Peter
Hi Cross posted One of our distributed team asked us whether hipersocket follows OSI model ? As it is a in memory transfer so I was not sure how to explain them. Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instr

Re: Use of "trap" facility in z/OS?

2019-06-21 Thread Greg Price
On 2019-06-21 4:59 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: I'm not sure that any of the hardware architecture has been implemented specifically for Linux. ISTR hearing that the primary impetus for implementing 20-bit displacement instructions came from the Linux direction. Cheers, Greg

Re: Mobile pricing query

2019-06-21 Thread Andrew Sica
Hi Laurence, Jumping in here with a bit of general info: Mobile Workload Pricing is a way of mitigating the impact from mobile requests to the rolling four-hour average. It's a sub-capacity offering (and only really makes sense in that space), so you need to have implemented sub-cap SW pricing

Re: Use of "trap" facility in z/OS?

2019-06-21 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
The below reply is copied from the google groups interface, looks like it was not sent to this list but just to the web interface. On Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 11:08:16 PM UTC-4, robert...@yahoo.com wrote: > On 20 Jun 2019 06:16:47 -0700, john...@gmail.com (John > McKown) wrote: > > >This is pu

Re: Volume compare utility

2019-06-21 Thread Ron Hawkins
Jesse, I may be late to the party, but did you look at using DISKCOMP on from CBT? RON HAWKINS Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971) m+61 400029610| t: +1 4085625415 | f: +1 4087912585 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: