Re: Tracking CLIST/Exec Usage

2022-01-28 Thread Steve Horein
I appreciate what a privilege it is to work with NetView Rexx. Rexx function ENVDATA('G'): https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/z-netview/6.3.0?topic=files-session-information-functions > Returns a list of blank delimited entries representing the REXX, PL/I, and > C procedures in the calling sequence or p

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

2022-01-28 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Maybe it is hard to understand for you, so I'll try to explain again: Yes, I use Polish names in Poland. However my name is Radosław - note the Ł character. But my signature is "Radoslaw". Why? For you. For you, and for those who does not know Polish. Vast majority of Hebrew, Russian, Bulgarian

Re: ISPF Table Display attribute

2022-01-28 Thread John McKown
thanks. I'll look at that after my morning hit of caffeine. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: "Stacking" AT-TLS on HTTPS

2022-01-28 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential I had this vague notion that AT-TLS was smart enough not to do that. I have seen customers running TLS over a VPN, and that works fine (albeit probably at somewhat reduced speed). I have seen people running SFTP over an encrypted link. Talk about overkill! (and sl

Re: Debug tool not stopping at initial breakpoint

2022-01-28 Thread Ramsey Hallman
I've never used CEETEST, instead doing all of my debugging with z/XDC, an outstanding product from ColeSoft, but let me ask a question based on my experience. Are you sure you use the line number in the PDS in the AT? Unless you also define the ds and member somewhere, the loadmod has no knowledg

Re: Debug tool not stopping at initial breakpoint

2022-01-28 Thread Joseph Reichman
Just noticed a message in tool AT STATEMENT not supported for compile unit And yet if I go to the section frequently used assembler commands in the debug tool reference summary there is an example at line number Thanks > On Jan 28, 2022, at 8:18 AM, Ramsey Hallman wrote: > > I've never u

Re: Debug tool not stopping at initial breakpoint

2022-01-28 Thread Joseph Reichman
Just changed the line number and it stopped After the call the line numbers are off Thank you > On Jan 28, 2022, at 8:33 AM, Joseph Reichman wrote: > > Just noticed a message in tool AT STATEMENT not supported for compile unit > > And yet if I go to the section frequently used assembler c

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

2022-01-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
Maybe it is hard to understand for you, so I'll try to explain again: Businesses with local customers and employees want to make things comfortable and convenient for them. Some of those customers and employees may not even know the Roman alphabet. Yes, if they have foreign customers then their

Re: ISPF Table Display attribute

2022-01-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
What code page are you using for logical not (¬)? It;s displaying as �. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: ISPF Table Display attribute

2022-01-28 Thread John McKown
That why I use <> for not equal. I have ISPF set up for LATIN-1 for UNIX compatibility. On Friday, January 28, 2022, Seymour J Metz wrote: > What code page are you using for logical not (¬)? It;s displaying as �. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > ---

Free SMPE installation product

2022-01-28 Thread Peter
Hello Are there any freeaware mainframe products which are available to install via SMPE.? This is required for me to show SMPE installation demo to one of our rookie Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: Decimal Floating Point revisited

2022-01-28 Thread Bob Bridges
GAAP, for the uninitiate, is Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, which sounds pretty subjective but they're fairly well understood and documented although they change slightly from year to year. But since I don't know what DFP is I can't comment further. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmai

Re: Decimal Floating Point revisited

2022-01-28 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
DFP = Decimal Floating Point. New (FSVO "new") hardware data format, operations done in floating point registers like regular Hexadecimal Floating Point (HFP) and Binary Floating Point (BFP) operations (traditional C float or double, PL/1 FLOAT, COBOL COMPUTATIONAL-1 and -2). -Original Mes

Re: Decimal Floating Point revisited

2022-01-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:00:04 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >DFP = Decimal Floating Point. ... > You should put that in the Subject: line. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: Free SMPE installation product

2022-01-28 Thread Mark Jacobs
Can you order Device Support Facilities (5655-257) from Shopz and have them install it into throwaway libraries? I've used that process in the past when training people. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

2022-01-28 Thread Tom Brennan
On 1/28/2022 2:45 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: Maybe it is hard to understand for you, so I'll try to explain again: Yes, I use Polish names in Poland. However my name is Radosław - note the Ł character. But my signature is "Radoslaw". Why? For you. And thanks for that! I still remember maybe

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-28 Thread Phil Smith III
David Crayford wrote: >It's company policy where I work to perform code scans using Synopsis >tools such as Black Duck and Polaris. These tools scan for license >issues, vulnerabilities, compliance etc. Polaris is so sophisticated >it flagged a violation because it had detected I was using an S

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

2022-01-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:54:38 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >Businesses with local customers and employees want to make things comfortable >and convenient for them. Some of those customers and employees may not even >know the Roman alphabet. Yes, if they have foreign customers then their >corres

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-28 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Not only that. Many of the vulnerabilities are zero day. This means that they were not known at the time you packed your product. LOG4J is a great example for a 0D. As such, as Phill mentioned, they will not be discovered by any toll you have. ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|

Re: Country of development was Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-28 Thread Charles Mills
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations_of_Russian_government_ties Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 8:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subje

Re: LISTSERV Noise?

2022-01-28 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/27/22 7:05 AM, Eric D Rossman wrote: Yeah, yeah. Semantics. :) In some ways it's not /just/ semantics. Bottom line is that this is a well-established convention. It is NOT a defined standard anywhere. Heck, RFCs aren't standards at all anyway. Actually, many RFCs are considered standar

Re: Decimal Floating Point revisited

2022-01-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
Generally Accepted Accounting Practice in the UK. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 10:5

Re: LISTSERV Noise?

2022-01-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
The difference between a loaded and an unleaded firearm is just semantics, but the cadre in boot camp thought that it was an important difference. Something about all of they paperwork that they didn't want to fill out after an "unloaded" weapon going off. I would be happy if both the -- sp sig

Re: "Stacking" AT-TLS on HTTPS

2022-01-28 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/27/22 3:40 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: 1. Mainframe starts handshake 2. Server ... does its handshake thing 3. Certificates, ciphers, keys exchanged 4. Mainframe says 410 and drops connection I would expect that steps #2 and / or #3 would have different values for nonces

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

2022-01-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
Does z/OS not comply with Unicode bidi rules for code page 1208? For older code pages, IBM doesn't really have a choice but the use the original text order; I'd expect the same issue on old PC code pages. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: "Stacking" AT-TLS on HTTPS

2022-01-28 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/28/22 6:06 AM, Allan Staller wrote: I have seen people running SFTP over an encrypted link. Talk about overkill! (and sl!). I've talked about HTTPS / SSH (et al.) over IPsec over MACsec with people before. }:-) Bonus if either HTTPS or SSH are functioning as an encrypting trans

Re: LISTSERV Noise?

2022-01-28 Thread Eric D Rossman
"Grant Taylor" wrote: > On 1/27/22 7:05 AM, Eric D Rossman wrote: > > Yeah, yeah. Semantics. :) > > In some ways it's not /just/ semantics. True. I was trying to add a little levity there. > > Bottom line is that this is a well-established convention. It is NOT > > a defined standard anywhere.

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

2022-01-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:57:13 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Does z/OS not comply with Unicode bidi rules for code page 1208? > >For older code pages, IBM doesn't really have a choice but the use the >original text order; I'd expect the same issue on old PC code pages. > Does 424 count as "old"?

Re: "Stacking" AT-TLS on HTTPS

2022-01-28 Thread Phil Smith III
Grant Taylor wrote: >I would expect that steps #2 and / or #3 would have different values for >nonces / ephemeral keys between on each end of the connection and that >this would be visible if you got deep enough into the TLS debugging. Yes, I would assume so. And we were headed that way: we

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

2022-01-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:39:19 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: > >And thanks for that! I still remember maybe 35 years ago I was walking >out of work late in the day, and two co-workers were outside speaking >Mandarin. When they saw me they immediately switched to English, which >surprised me. All I can

Operations GDPS health monitoring

2022-01-28 Thread Dave Jousma
All We have 5 sysplex's in MGM4SITE configuration. We are about nearly fully implemented and region swap tested through all environments. We are looking at how to have our operations staff monitor GDPS for critical events.They wouldnt be expected to take any action, other than to page o

Re: "Stacking" AT-TLS on HTTPS

2022-01-28 Thread Tony Harminc
On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 17:40, Phil Smith III wrote: [...] > AT-TLS is cool, but not when you didn't ask for it. I had assumed that it > was integrated into GSK and/or TCP/IP such that this scenario would be > impossible. If it were, then presumably a gsk_environment_init() would keep > AT-TLS from

Re: "Stacking" AT-TLS on HTTPS

2022-01-28 Thread Phil Smith III
Tony Harminc wrote: >What you can do, regardless of whether you *think* you're using AT-TLS >or not, is to get the socket status using ioctl() with one of the >SIOCTTLSCTL requests. This can tell you all kinds of stuff, but most >basically you can see if the connection is secured (or will be if

DFSORT reading one line, making 4 lines.

2022-01-28 Thread Donald Johnson Jr.
Hi SORT experts, I have tried something I thought was simple, but keep running into problems. I must have missed something along the way, and I am sure you will pick it up quite easily. My input is a file of old and new names: Pos 1-32 : Oldname Pos 34-66 : Newname OLDNAME1

Re: DFSORT reading one line, making 4 lines.

2022-01-28 Thread Sri h Kolusu
> I keep getting syntax errors in my INREC, probably because I have not done > this before and have forgotten something. Can someone lend a hand? Don, You need to use "/" to create a new line which is ONLY on applicable on OUTFIL. Here is sample job that would give you the desired results //STEP

Re: "Stacking" AT-TLS on HTTPS

2022-01-28 Thread Phil Smith III
Anyone know the mechanism for saving session keys on z/OS? I've searched but "session", "key"/"keys", and "session key"/"session keys" are terrible search terms, find way too many noise hits. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: The Great Resignation

2022-01-28 Thread Donald Russell
Bernie Madoff was a fiduciary. Laws don’t make people ethical. On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 15:49 Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Always go with an financial advisor who is a fiduciary. They are obligated > by law to do what’s best for you the investor. > > > Se

Re: The Great Resignation

2022-01-28 Thread Bill Johnson
Madoff died in prison and his investors got most of their money back. Clawbacks are ongoing. Anyone who doesn’t use a fiduciary is a fool. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Friday, January 28, 2022, 5:07 PM, Donald Russell wrote: Bernie Madoff was a fiduciary. Laws don’t make people ethica

Re: Directories on ft server with Hebrew names

2022-01-28 Thread Tom Brennan
On 1/28/2022 12:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:39:19 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: And thanks for that! I still remember maybe 35 years ago I was walking out of work late in the day, and two co-workers were outside speaking Mandarin. When they saw me they immediately switched

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-28 Thread David Crayford
On 29/1/22 12:53 am, Phil Smith III wrote: pipeline every time we merge into our development branch or master. I know YOU know this, David, but it bears stating explicitly: none of these tools would (did) detect the log4j vuln. I'm cognizant to that. Humans find vulnerabilities. In the cas

Re: ISPF Table Display attribute

2022-01-28 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello John/Shmuel, apologies for not noticing that coding style in this old piece of code. These days I do use "<>" for not equal. Should be easy to correct. On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:23:12 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >What code page are you using for logical not (¬)? It;s displaying as �. >