On 2020-09-03 11:34 PM, Tom Conley wrote:
On 9/3/2020 11:25 AM, David Crayford wrote:
I don’t want to bother with XMIT files. Git has been ported to z/OS
and works great.
David,
Others have requested GIT, so stay tuned.
Thank you Tom! You can use Lionel's Zigi if you would rather not use
WFM ^Verizon
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ervers down? Or is IBM blocking verizon?
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Hi - regarding several points in this thread...
What I think I know:
MVS 3.8 had:
- MF/1 (component prefix IRB) writing the SMF type 7n records
- physical swapping only
- sequential SMF data sets ("TCLOSE" anyone?)
SE1 and SE2 were free (as in zero dollars) but licensed.
MVS/SE2 had
- RMF (com
Someone used up the entire 128GB of SCM we've assigned to paging on one of our
systems last night. AutoIPL took a SAD and then reipled, so the recovery went
as well as can be expected. I'm not well versed in IPCS and so I was wondering
if someone could give me hints on how to ascertain who did t
Mark, if you still have access to the SYSLOG for the lpar you could try to look
for message IRA220I. The message will list the who was using up the AUX slots.
The message can be displayed related to message IRA201E.
Thanks..
Paul Feller
GTS Mainframe Technical Support
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I looked last night. Didn't see any IRA messages that indicated who's consuming
page space. We're 99.9% SCM for paging, just one small local page dataset for
VIO. I'm conjecturing that that message isn't being issued with SCM. I'll
double check the log though.
Mark Jacobs
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I know this is a long shot but did you check your storage array to make sure
there wasn't a hiccup in it that momentarily disabled the SCM?
Rex
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W dniu 03.09.2020 o 17:37, Jim Elliott pisze:
Tony,
Check my CMOS Processor Table page at
https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/cmos-processor-table.html. I have the z/OS
and z/VM level sets listed there.
Comments to the table:
1. z/OS 1.1-1.5 were able to run on 9672 machines. z/OS 1.6 and lat
SCM is internal to the z15-T02 processor. Someone was definitely using it up.
Plenty of these messages in the system log.
IRA265I 50% OF LOCAL PAGE DATA SET SPACE IS ALLOCATED
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On 9/4/2020 3:16 AM, David Crayford wrote:
On 2020-09-03 11:34 PM, Tom Conley wrote:
On 9/3/2020 11:25 AM, David Crayford wrote:
I don’t want to bother with XMIT files. Git has been ported to z/OS
and works great.
David,
Others have requested GIT, so stay tuned.
Thank you Tom! You can us
Thanks, Mark. I didn't know SCM was internal on the T02. I looked up SCM and
the init and tuning guide (for 2.1) said it was part of auxiliary storage which
in my mind has always been on external boxes.
Rex
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I don't see my reply here, so I will post it again. Check out my page
https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/cmos-processor-table.html
Regards, Jim
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greg.pr...@optusnet.com.au (Greg Price) wrote:
>Hi - regarding several points in this thread...
>
>What I think I know:
>
>MVS 3.8 had:
>- MF/1 (component prefix IRB) writing the SMF type 7n records
>- physical swapping only
>- seque
MP3000 was considered a G5 since it could have IFL processor.
MP 2000 was considered a G3 (??) and I remember to do some tests with a very
early Linux using it with RAMACII. It was very very very slowly.
Carlos Bodra
IBM zEnterprise Certified
São Paulo – SP – Brazil
-Mensagem original
On the z13 and z14 generations it was called Flash Express and connected using
the PCIie interface. On the z15 generation it's even closer to the processor
now.
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I don't believe thread-level-storage is supported in the z/OS environment?
- Dave R. -
(p.s. the latest Dignus release now has support for pthreads, and includes
many functions missing from the IBM (LE) implementation but doesn't
include thread-level-storage... the implementation of that c
On 9/3/2020 11:45 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
Dave Gibney wrote:
Over on CICS-L, I was told that TLS 2.3 requires z/OS 2.4.
Is this true? Any prospect of a implemnting PTF?
To my knowledge TLS 1.3 support was not backported to z/OS 2.3 System SSL,
and I'm not aware of any plans to do so. Of cour
I'm a PL/I novice, or less. A recent thread here moved me
to browse the Ref., where I read that any constant used more
than once must be declared and the identifier used instead.
Sorta tyrannical enforcement of coding conventions. OK.
I agree that 6.62607015e−34 shouldn't be hard-coded more
than
Flash Express features (PCIe cards with flash memory installed in the PCIe I/O
Drawer) were replaced with Virtual Flash Memory features on the z15.
Physically, VFM is just part of the installed memory DIMMs and 'fenced' from
the main memory. If VFM is ordered, overall main memory available is re
Listers:
We are converting all our file transfer jobs from FTP to FTPS.
Our security people insist we do not use port 21 for our FTPS.
I see no way of adding another port to our current ftp server it listens on
port 21.
Question:
Do I have to create another FTPD server listening on port 9921 (for
Generally, for passive FTP/s, the connection is negotiated on port 21 and
then redirected to a higher port.
Joe
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 10:50 AM Roberto Halais
wrote:
> Listers:
>
> We are converting all our file transfer jobs from FTP to FTPS.
> Our security people insist we do not use port 21
I'm not a PL/I novice, if not an expert. Whatever you read, it does not
mean what you think it means.
A constant (or variable) named TWO is an abomination in any language.
sas
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 10:44 AM Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> I'm a PL/I n
Hi,
Does anyone here have experience with using GENXLT and EDCSUSNM Macros
to do a "custom" translation?
Briefly, I would like to know which Dataset(s) the ICONV Utility uses to
load its tables. (Is it LNKLST or LPALST possibly?)
Thanks and regards,
David
-
That's true. i'll have to convince security otherwise.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 11:54 AM Joe Monk wrote:
> Generally, for passive FTP/s, the connection is negotiated on port 21 and
> then redirected to a higher port.
>
> Joe
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 10:50 AM Roberto Halais
> wrote:
>
> > Liste
Hi Roberto,
Yes, you can have multiple FTP servers running listening on different ports and
only one TCP/IP stack.
We are doing this today. We have a unsecure FTP server (that we're actually
trying to get rid of) and a FTPS server listening on different ports.
Thanks, David
-Original Me
On 2020-09-04 15:43, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I'm a PL/I novice, or less. A recent thread here moved me
to browse the Ref., where I read that any constant used more
than once must be declared and the identifier used instead.
Sorta tyrannical enforcement of coding conventions. OK.
I agree that 6.62
On 2020-09-04 15:43, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> I'm a PL/I novice, or less. A recent thread here moved me
> to browse the Ref., where I read that any constant used more
> than once must be declared and the identifier used instead.
> Sorta tyrannical enforcement of coding conventions. OK.
> I agree
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 11:57:12 -0400, David Spiegel wrote:
>
>Does anyone here have experience with using GENXLT and EDCSUSNM Macros
>to do a "custom" translation?
>Briefly, I would like to know which Dataset(s) the ICONV Utility uses to
>load its tables. (Is it LNKLST or LPALST possibly?)
>
I hope i
MVS had simulation for DAS in its program check handler, which
allowed SP1.2 and its successors to run on machines which did not
have DAS. DAS was first implemented via a microcode update
on the 3033. It was never implemented on 158 and 168.
Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Tes
Anyone using their zIIPs with the multithread parm in IEAOPTxx? Is that
per LPAR or per zIIP? Meaning if I enable it in one LPAR is it enabled on
all LPARs?
What are the ramifications of enabling it and does it provide much benefit?
--
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1) Yes
2) Per LPAR
3) See above
4) It depends.
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On Friday, September 4, 2020 12:15 PM, Michael Babcock
Yes, absolutely
- To listen on two ports you need two FTP server started tasks
- Yes, you can have multiple FTP servers on a single TCP stack.
Just clone your current FTP config and proc and change the PORT specification.
Try that, and then try configuring for TLS (which is more of a chore than
On 9/4/2020 9:15 AM, Michael Babcock wrote:
Anyone using their zIIPs with the multithread parm in IEAOPTxx? Is that
per LPAR or per zIIP? Meaning if I enable it in one LPAR is it enabled on
all LPARs?
What are the ramifications of enabling it and does it provide much benefit?
Like all parm
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> Behalf Of Ed Jaffe
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2020 8:37 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: TLS 1.3 in z/OS 2.3?
>
> On 9/3/2020 11:45 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
> > Dave Gibney wrote:
> >> Over on CICS-L, I
Question for you all. Are you allowed to have your z/OS machines access
internet sites such as github, directly? If not, what processes do you follow
to get said data on to your z/OS systems?
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of
David Crayford
Se
A couple of things...
* According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS, port 990 has been
"reserved" as the official listener port for the FTPS data connection.
* This doesn't mean you must use this port. Our FTPS server uses 8443.
Apparently some brainiac thought that FTPS and HTTPS
Thank you all for your help.
So I can have and ftp server named FTPD and another one named FTPS (for
example)?
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 12:23 PM Charles Mills wrote:
> Yes, absolutely
>
> - To listen on two ports you need two FTP server started tasks
> - Yes, you can have multiple FTP servers on
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 10:55:19 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
>I'm not a PL/I novice, if not an expert. Whatever you read, it does not
>mean what you think it means.
>
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS Language Reference
Version 5 Release 1 IBM SC27-8940-00
Datatypes and attributes. . . 17
If the number 3.141
Yep. Pretty much any 8-character IBM-ish names that you want.
Charles
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Of Roberto Halais
Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 9:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Multiple FTP Serve
Do you have a URL and page number? Is that an exact quote, or was there a
conditional?
It is good form to use a constant that stands for itself, e.g., "X**2". It is
bad form to use a constant for, e.g., an approximation, an empirical value, a
value subject to regulatory change. The general rule
Thank you, Charles
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 1:01 PM Charles Mills wrote:
> Yep. Pretty much any 8-character IBM-ish names that you want.
>
> Charles
>
>
> -Original Message-
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> Behalf Of Roberto Halais
> Sent: Friday
Sounds to me like the documentation writer was a bit confused. Looks to me
like it should read instead:
If the number 3.1416 is used in more than one place in the program, then you
*should* declare it as a named constant.
If it requires specific data or precision attributes at different places
That text uses an example of a :magic number", and the advice is sound. Any
value that you or another programmer might have to change in the future belongs
in a declaration. Note that it's not your father's PL/I; there are named
constants.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smet
oThat depends on whether the author was addressing compiler requirements or
code maintainability. From the latter perspective, IMHO, "must" is appropriate
and should apply even if PI only occurs once.
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Hi List,
I have a question that has puzzled me on and off for years regarding the work
selection criteria for the JES2 spool offload facility. That is the use of the
slash. I get the part about criteria left of the slash being required, i.e. if
you have JOBNAME=ABCDE and WS=(JOB/) only output
On 2020-09-04 17:01, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I see everything twice:
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 19:05:32 +, Robert Prins wrote:
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 19:06:49 +, Robert Prins wrote:
Yes, problems posting. Should be OK now.
And I don't think that anyone in their right mind would ever use anything l
We run several..diff ports
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Yep. Pretty much any 8-character IBM
> We once had a contractor who would use TRUE and
> FALSE rather than just '1'b and '0'b,
There's nothing wrong with declaring those constants, although it's hardly
necessary. What comes next, however, is madness.
> and did his compares as
> select(var_a = var_b);
My eyes! Make the bad man go
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 20:38:29 +, Robert Prins wrote:
>On 2020-09-04 17:01, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> I see everything twice:
>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 19:05:32 +, Robert Prins wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 19:06:49 +, Robert Prins wrote:
>
>Yes, problems posting. Should be OK now.
>
Your sett
It’s Friday, so don’t rag on me for venturing into IT fiction. No one has hit
us with this challenge (yet), but it could happen.
Ransomware is much in the news these days. As unlikely as it might be, some
nefarious genius manages to lock you out of your entire disk farm and demands
rubies and
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 17:10:36 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>Sounds to me like the documentation writer was a bit confused. Looks to me
>like it should read instead:
>
>If th nnumber 3.1416 is used in more than one place in the program, then you
>*should* declare it as a named constant.
>If
Retire?
Doug Fuerst
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Subject: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm
It’s Friday, so don’t rag on me for venturing into IT fiction. No one has hit
us with this challeng
Skip,
I will tell you what saved one of my customers. When they use a VTL, they
replicated that VTL to another site. So, when some files got encrypted via
ransomware, they were able to quickly replicate the files back and re-boot.
Joe
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 1:51 PM Jesse 1 Robinson
wrote:
> It
Unless the migration away from Physical Tape was done by people
completely unfamiliar with Mainframe processing
Change 'tape' to 'Virtual Tape Subsystem Objects'
Although we used the DRVendor's floor system to run the restore, we
could have had them 'mount' our DR z/VM or DR z/OS system im
Also look in VERBX MTRACE in the standalone dump.
ASSBNVSC and ASSBVSC tell you the number of slots each address space is
using. You can look at those in the dump.
Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp.
Poughkeepsie NY
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You can IPL Standalone DSS or FDR from CD
> -Original Message-
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> Subject: Ransoming a mainframe disk farm
>
> It’s Friday, so don’t rag on me f
I was recently asked about this by management. I may have missed
something, but below is my response, which I expect some will poke holes in.
First, all my dasd and VTL tapes are maintained in z-only devices. They
are not used, or accessed by PC based devices. We don't run z-Linux
either. My d
I'm a tiny bit of an expert in ransomware and not much of an expert in
mainframe backup strategies, but here goes ...
Just kind of a conceptual thought ...
It seems to me the big advantage of tape (in this scenario) is the time lag. It
is not perfectly up-to-the-minute, and therefore is "good"
I did not know that CD could be used for standalone restore. However, how do I
process my volume dumps? They also live only in virtual.
.
.
J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
323-715-0595 Mobile
626-543-6132 Office ⇐===
Did you see the SHARE demo of this that Chad did as a Security keynote a couple
of years ago?
(There was a suit sitting behind me the whole time mumbling "oh Jesus. Oh
Jesus. Oh Jesus.")
He demoed the whole process. They were separate pieces. He said "I am not crazy
enough to actually integrat
Joe, am I reading that this situation actually happened to your VTL customer???
.
.
J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
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323-715-0595 Mobile
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Your devices should still be there. Issue a mount for the volume in a specific
device. You might need to access the Virtual Library's manual mount functions
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On
> Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2020 1:21
1. There seem to be a lot of sites that don't follow BCP for backup
2. A robust policy will assume threats from insiders.
3. Ransomware is not the only reason that duplexed backups with
at least one copy kept remotely are prudent. Assume that there
will be natural, e.g., tornado, and m
It's working now. I don't know whether the problem was IBM or verizon.
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Edward Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>
Sent: Frida
Reminds me of a "Tech Support" (I think) magazine article I read many
years ago that started out with something like, "The company datacenter
has lost all its data, including all backups. A disgruntled employee
with full access ran weekend jobs which overwrote all tapes and disk
backups, and t
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 17:04:34 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>Do you have a URL and page number? Is that an exact quote, or was there a
>conditional?
>
I cited the Language Ref.
>It is good form to use a constant that stands for itself, e.g., "X**2". It is
>bad form to use a constant for, e.g., an
On 2020-09-05 01:43, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I'm a PL/I novice, or less. A recent thread here moved me
to browse the Ref., where I read that any constant used more
than once must be declared and the identifier used instead.
Sorta tyrannical enforcement of coding conventions. OK.
I agree that 6.62
On 2020-09-05 05:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 17:10:36 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Sounds to me like the documentation writer was a bit confused. Looks
to me like it should read instead:
If th nnumber 3.1416 is used in more than one place in the program,
then you *sho
While c and h are unlikely to change, the precision that you need in your
program could change, and it is much easier to edit a single value in the
constant declaration than to edit each line of code that refers to some
approximation.
--
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
If you don't care about maintainable code than should is to strong. If you care
about maintainable code then should is too weak.
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Robin Vowels
Se
If you mirror a backup to a remote site, unload the tape and ship it to a
vault, it would take a clever cracker to ovevewrite it ;-)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom
Brennan
Maze Ransomware ... 'nuff said.
Thank goodness for site-to-site replication.
Joe
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 3:40 PM Jesse 1 Robinson
wrote:
> Joe, am I reading that this situation actually happened to your VTL
> customer???
>
> .
> .
> J.O.Skip Robinson
> Southern California Edison Company
> Elect
One of my favorite websites
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Just put in the URL and it will tell you if it is just you or the website is
down
I have not found any negative to using this website
Lizette
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Ha ha: "Hello, Iron Mountain? This is the CIO. We've discovered a
terrible computer virus that only exists on physical tape. I need you
to take every tape you can find to the shredder immediately. Wear
gloves and a mask - you don't want to catch it. Hurry!!"
On 9/4/2020 3:23 PM, Seymour
"Bill Gates and the FBI say it is the worst virus ever. Forward this to
everyone in your address book."
Charles
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If you don't care about maintainable code than should is to strong.
If you care about maintainable code then should is too weak.
The purpose of a LRM is to tell you what
😉
.
.
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