Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread David Crayford
On 13/12/21 6:57 am, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 12/12/2021 1:20 pm, David Crayford wrote: Fingers crossed! The truth is almost no mainframe network (worth its salt) is visible to outside world. But that doesn't stop the public servers being compromised. A quick fix if you are unable to update to

Re: VTAM LU coding for 3192G display

2021-12-13 Thread Alexander Huemer
The DLOGMOD setting I had previously was D4C32XX3, which is defined as: D4C32XX3 MODEENT LOGMODE=D4C32XX3,FMPROF=X'03',TSPROF=X'03',PRIPROT=X'B* 1',SECPROT=X'90',COMPROT=X'3080',RUSIZES=X'87F8',PSERVIC* =X'02800300',APPNCOS=#CONNECT*@KGC* EDS ca

Cartridge initialization - RMM/TS3500

2021-12-13 Thread John Blythe Reid
I have a question about RMM. We've received some new cartridges that hadn't been initialized by the supplier. This caused I/O errors when attempts were made to mount the cartridges.To avoid these errors we changed their status to INIT so that they wouldn't be mounted: DFSMSrm

DLM8500 integration with Tape

2021-12-13 Thread Peter
Hello Is there mainframe physical tape solution to integrate with DLM8500 ? Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 13/12/2021 9:03 pm, David Crayford wrote: Agreed. Although Java itself does have security vulnerabilities and patches are released frequently. It's critical to stay up to date with service https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/java-sdk-security-vulnerabilities It does, but most of them seem

Re: Replacement for TM instruction

2021-12-13 Thread Ituriel do Neto
Gentlemen, Thank you very much for your ideas and time.I was considering to copy variable A to another place and, since i only need to check one bit, do a NC and then a CLC, but i think your suggestion of EX is more elegant. A       DC    X'1C'   B       DC    X'08' C       DC    X           MVC

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Filip Palian
pon., 13 gru 2021 o 22:33 Andrew Rowley napisał(a): > On 13/12/2021 9:03 pm, David Crayford wrote: > > > > Agreed. Although Java itself does have security vulnerabilities and > > patches are released frequently. It's critical to stay up to date with > > service > > https://www.ibm.com/support/pag

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 13/12/2021 10:52 pm, Filip Palian wrote: @Andrew Rowley, you may want to check this outstanding work from Adam Gowdiak (search for "ibm java" or "oracle java" or simply check it all): https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/author/3682/ You might have to spell it out for me because I can't figur

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 6:14 AM Andrew Rowley wrote: > On 13/12/2021 10:52 pm, Filip Palian wrote: > > @Andrew Rowley, you may want to check this outstanding work from Adam > > Gowdiak (search for "ibm java" or "oracle java" or simply check it all): > > https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/autho

Re: Display user for started tasks started under Master subsystem

2021-12-13 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
For those that might be interested, I have made available the package called RACF Snoop on my website here, https://rsclweb.com/ . This package allows you to see the details of RACF environments in running address spaces. The program is rather old (> 20 years) and needs a few tweaks. However, I

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Filip Palian
pon., 13 gru 2021 o 23:14 Andrew Rowley napisał(a): > On 13/12/2021 10:52 pm, Filip Palian wrote: > > @Andrew Rowley, you may want to check this outstanding work from Adam > > Gowdiak (search for "ibm java" or "oracle java" or simply check it all): > > https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/author

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Filip Palian
wt., 14 gru 2021 o 00:04 John McKown napisał(a): > I don't think COBOL is explicitly, or implicitly, more secure than the base > Java language. The "problem" is not the Java language, but the Internet > infrastructure built into the Java libraries and "add on" facilities such > as LOG4J. A COBOL

Re: AWS wants to get your mainframe apps into the cloud – fast

2021-12-13 Thread Bfishing
Of course they do. Everyone wants to. Whoever owns the data, owns you along with all the networking chatter that goes along with it. Apps are generally easier to move too. The data is generally more sticky. In both cases however, be very careful if you can't move it all! On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 8

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
The packages in open repositories for languages like Java and Perl have many eyes examinging them, even if there are no official bodies certifying them. How does that make any of those packages less secure than a roll-your=own package in COBOL? In fact, how is it not the other way around? Why is

Re: Replacement for TM instruction

2021-12-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
You don't need the CLC; the NC sets the condition code. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Ituriel do Neto [03427ec2837d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu]

Re: VTAM LU coding for 3192G display

2021-12-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
I would not expect GDDM to work with logmode DYNAMICB. Have you looked into Attila Fogarasi's suggestion about R/R unit sizes? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on beha

Re: Is the mainfrrame cloud more reliable? was Re: AWS is down.

2021-12-13 Thread Bfishing
IBM does offer this cloud service: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers Only providing a reply to the question of zCloud offerings from IBM. On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 9:51 PM Ed Jaffe wrote: > On 12/11/2021 11:07 AM, zMan wrote: > > What Z cloud offering? I see them categorizi

Re: Cartridge initialization - RMM/TS3500

2021-12-13 Thread Nigel Morton
You should use the RMM utility, EDGINERS. On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 at 10:57, John Blythe Reid wrote: > I have a question about RMM. We've received some new cartridges that > hadn't been initialized by the supplier. This caused I/O errors when > attempts were made to mount the cartridges.To avoid thes

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Charles Mills
The only "advantage" (note the quotes!) of a roll your own solution is security by obscurity. There are also many evil eyes looking for vulnerabilities in the open source packages. Your own COBOL solution? Maybe no evil eyes (maybe a few?). Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Is the mainfrrame cloud more reliable? was Re: AWS is down.

2021-12-13 Thread Mitch Mccluhan
...and IBM has multiple zCloud sites.  I've toured the one in Boulder, and it is amazing. Mitch -Original Message- From: Bfishing To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Mon, Dec 13, 2021 11:19 am Subject: Re: Is the mainfrrame cloud more reliable? was Re: AWS is down. IBM does offer thi

Re: VTAM LU coding for 3192G display

2021-12-13 Thread Attila Fogarasi
Your RUSIZE is too big for some 3192g configurations, also suggest adding pacing ... try the following RUSIZES=X'8687', PSNDPAC=X'01' ,SRCVPAC=X'01' C On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 2:37 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > I would not expect GDDM to work with logmode DYNAMICB. Have you looked > into Attila Foga

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Filip Palian
wt., 14 gru 2021 o 02:23 Seymour J Metz napisał(a): > The packages in open repositories for languages like Java and Perl have > many eyes examinging them, even if there are no official bodies certifying > them. > Correct. There's Internet bug bounty, independent enthusiasts, Google project zero,

Re: VTAM LU coding for 3192G display

2021-12-13 Thread Alexander Huemer
Thank you _very_ much. That did the trick. After your hint I did some web search and then found [1] which for whatever reason didn't show up in my previous research. I then coded the MODEENT as 004210 ** 004211 ** Logmode entry

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 14/12/2021 12:04 am, John McKown wrote: I don't think COBOL is explicitly, or implicitly, more secure than the base Java language. The "problem" is not the Java language, but the Internet infrastructure built into the Java libraries and "add on" facilities such as LOG4J. A COBOL programmer wou

Re: VTAM LU coding for 3192G display

2021-12-13 Thread Attila Fogarasi
I've done a lot of debugging with SNA over the years and majority of bind failures were due to RU size mismatch (for 3270 most of the rest due to device attributes). Hardware was memory constrained and the hardware engineers squeezed the maximum out of every byte ... leading to software having to

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread kekronbekron
IMHO, it's both. In general, we've seen articles where some extremely basic npm package gets 'owned', raising the question of, 'why are we using a package to find leap years' or some such. So unnecessary package/library dependency is one. Of course, the naive response to it is to keep a 500-perso

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 14/12/2021 12:30 am, Filip Palian wrote: My intention was to share information about the vulnerabilities affecting Java language. (Without performing a proper comparison) I'd prefer not to get into discussion about one language being less secure than another. "Java is insecure" is an implicit

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Cheryl Watson
Hi all, Does IBM have anything to say about this? I assume it's on their security portal. SAS uses Java and has issued a blog post. Many SAS products use Java and are susceptible to this exposure. Each site should ensure that all SAS users and the Security staff are made aware of this. P

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread Filip Palian
wt., 14 gru 2021 o 16:23 Cheryl Watson napisał(a): > > Does IBM have anything to say about this? I assume it's on their security > portal. > https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/an-update-on-the-apache-log4j-cve-2021-44228-vulnerability/ Cheers, s1m0n -

how to copy entire pds to sequential file ?

2021-12-13 Thread Weizman arbel
hello , i want to do this from batch. IEBPTPCH (PUNCH TYPORG=PO) add MEMBER NAME in front of each member and i want to prevent it. i did not find a way through IEBCOPY ( i know the way by rexx ) thanks -- For IBM-MAIN s

Re: how to copy entire pds to sequential file ?

2021-12-13 Thread Peter Vels
This: http://mainframe-tips-and-tricks.blogspot.com/2011/12/jcl-copy-all-members-from-pds-to.html does it in 2 steps using IEBPTPCH and then SORT to strip out the MEMBER NAME. On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 16:53, Weizman arbel wrote: > hello , > > i want to do this from batch. > > IEBPTPCH (PUNCH TYPO

Re: New Java vulnerability

2021-12-13 Thread David Crayford
On 14/12/21 12:12 pm, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 14/12/2021 12:30 am, Filip Palian wrote: My intention was to share information about the vulnerabilities affecting Java language. (Without performing a proper comparison) I'd prefer not to get into discussion about one language being less secure th

Re: how to copy entire pds to sequential file ?

2021-12-13 Thread Weizman arbel
this can be problematic if the member data also contain MEMBER in the same position so i prefer to do it from rexx by LMCOPY On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 17:18:56 +1100, Peter Vels wrote: >This: >http://mainframe-tips-and-tricks.blogspot.com/2011/12/jcl-copy-all-members-from-pds-to.html >does it in