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

2019-06-22 Thread Dave Cole
FWIW: Around a year ago, z/XDC became a product that uses TRAP2. It gives the user the option of using TRAP2 or X'00' opcodes for breakpoints. It yields some performance improvement, but not as much as I had hoped. Dave Cole ColeSoft Marketing 414 Third Street, NE Charlottesville, VA 22902 EAD

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

2019-06-22 Thread bernd.oppol...@t-online.de
we did exactly the Same to a custumer specific Debugging Product some years ago (replacing x00 Breakpoints with trap2) and Made the Same experience: some Performance gains but not so much. for the Update of the duct our systems Folks wrote a Special svc for us which did only this, nothing Else.

Re: Volume compare utility

2019-06-22 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
We finally decided that with the number of volumes involved--thousands--no comparison tool could complete within a reasonable window. So we held our breath and took the plunge. We succeeded. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program

mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-22 Thread Donald Blake
If a company can't afford to do computing correctly, and that includes doing it securely, they shouldn't have computers in house in the first place. Particularly medical related companies such as hospitals. That's a HIPPA violation waiting to happen. Which in the US, carries potentially severe cons

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-22 Thread Bill Johnson
Up to 10k per HIPPA violation. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, June 22, 2019, 11:59 AM, Donald Blake wrote: If a company can't afford to do computing correctly, and that includes doing it securely, they shouldn't have computers in house in the first place. Particularly medical re

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-22 Thread ITschak Mugzach
10K or 20M in GDPR, the fact is that most organizations that are attacked are those whose security is poor for budgetary reasons. There are some rich but stupid, but most of them are poor. in security, like life, it's better to be young (technology wise) and rich than old and poor. ITschak On Sat

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-22 Thread Tom Brennan
No matter how correctly a site does their work, there's always a chance of an issue. So how we handle a breach should also be looked at. For example, how can data be held hostage? You just treat the failure as if your production disks all died at once, restore from your latest offline backup

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-22 Thread Rupert Reynolds
Old spool exit hack MVS/ESA and JES3, UK big bank Nasty Wetmonster. We had the usual assortment of exits and mods. We had a problem with jobs throwing excessive amounts of output to spool. The answer was surprisingly simple--put a STIMER (not STIMERM SET) in the exit, which slowed down that job t

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-22 Thread David Spiegel
*HIPAA On 2019-06-22 12:40, Bill Johnson wrote: > Up to 10k per HIPPA violation. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Saturday, June 22, 2019, 11:59 AM, Donald Blake wrote: > > If a company can't afford to do computing correctly, and that includes > doing it securely, they shouldn't hav

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

2019-06-22 Thread Bill Johnson
Yeah, should know that. Directly involved. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, June 22, 2019, 10:48 PM, David Spiegel wrote: *HIPAA On 2019-06-22 12:40, Bill Johnson wrote: > Up to 10k per HIPPA violation. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Saturday, June 22, 2019, 11:5

Re: Hipersocket follows OSI ?

2019-06-22 Thread Timothy Sipples
Peter wrote: >Cross posted Where? >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. Yes, HiperSockets present OSI Model Layer 3 and/or Layer 2, as you wish and configure. Layer 2 support was added

Re: z14 SE clocks sync to HMC/NTP

2019-06-22 Thread Alan(GMAIL)Watthey
Jim, What's wrong with telling the two SE's to get their time from the same NTP server? That's what I got our SE to set up. Regards, Alan Watthey -Original Message- From: Jim Elliott Sent: 21 June 2019 5:14 pm Subject: z14 SE clocks sync to HMC/NTP We have an issue where the 2 Sup