I am a strong GUI and panel advocate WHEN THEY SAVE TIME, and that includes the
RACF panels. In some contexts the RACF panels that IBM provides are useful and
save the time needed to write your own. For a lot of tasks they are not
appropriate, and that's fine. You have to carve the bird at the j
Joseph
As others might have suggested, if you are even semi-serious about writing
authorized code then I think it would be worth your time talking to Cole
Software about getting z/XDC.
Independently of that discussion, it might be a good idea to take stock of your
current software’s own trace
To expand on that, never throw out debug scaffolding after you go production;
keep the test cases and AIF out anything that you want to disable rather than
deleting it.
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Rob
I have Zpdt personal edition
I have gotten to a point where in my code I have written a number of SRB’s and
other types of code that run in Supervisor state and / or key 0
To protect my control blocks I wanted to put them in key 4 so that inadvertent
access would get a s0c4 pic 4
I am
+1
We have been licensees of z/XDC for over 25 years. It has saved us
immeasurable amounts of man-hours.
Mike Shaw
MVS/QuickRef Support Group
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 5:07 AM Rob Scott wrote:
> Joseph
>
> As others might have suggested, if you are even semi-serious about wri
When you say we you are referring to your company
Not you yourself correct ?
> On Feb 27, 2023, at 9:03 AM, Mike Shaw wrote:
>
> +1
>
> We have been licensees of z/XDC for over 25 years. It has saved us
> immeasurable amounts of man-hours.
>
> Mike Shaw
> MVS/QuickRef Support Group
> Chicag
Right. I don't at all object to the admins using the panels if they like
them, nor creating supplemental panels for homegrown tools. But yeah, I'm
mostly for the native commands myself, or REXX shortcuts. (I was the same
way in DOS, more interested in the typed commands than in the various menu
Is it possible to list the SSI's of load modules/program objects with a utility?
In other words, give the load library/program object library name to the
utility, and dump the module names and SSI's for each module.
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I am trying to connect to public.dhe.ibm.com using z/OS FTP. No matter what I
do, the session fails with
FC1108 authServer: secure_socket_init failed with rc = 410 (SSL message format
is incorrect)
If I run a trace I can see what is happening. The client sends "AUTH TLS" which
is accepted
Joseph
>> I have gotten to a point where in my code I have written a number of SRB’s
>> and other types of code that run in Supervisor state and / or key 0
>>To protect my control blocks I wanted to put them in key 4 so that
>>inadvertent access would get a s0c4 pic 4
My gut feeling here is yo
On 2/27/2023 2:07 AM, Rob Scott wrote:
As others might have suggested, if you are even semi-serious about writing
authorized code then I think it would be worth your time talking to Cole
Software about getting z/XDC.
We are happy z/XDC users, but we also rely heavily on the z/VM TRACE
comman
AMBLIST.
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:57:06 + rpinion865
<042a019916dd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
:>Is it possible to list the SSI's of load modules/program objects with a
utility?
:>
:>In other words, give the load library/program object library name to the
:>utility, and dump the
Rob
Dave Cole gets emails from IBMMAIN
My suggestion was discounted pricing for Zpdt users
There are 2 groups of people
One who would never pay and IBM recognized that with the learners edition
And the other ( which I include myself in )
Who have the personal edition and would pay a reasona
Joseph,
Yes, but we develop on a zPDT box also. Colesoft is good about negotiating
pricing on z/XDC for small shops.
The drastic productivity improvement that occurs when debugging with z/XDC
makes the license fee worthwhile. I used TSO TEST to debug for over 12
years, then switched to z/XDC for
Presently IBM only allows SFTP, secure FTP transmissions. This was documented
some time ago ... FTP will be rejected
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Just to confirm, by that you mean "SSH FTP" only, and that "FTP over TLS" is
not supported.
(The confusingly similar acronyms SFTP and FTPS are unfortunate.)
Charles
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On 2/27/2023 7:16 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
I am trying to connect to public.dhe.ibm.com using z/OS FTP. No matter what I
do, the session fails with
FC1108 authServer: secure_socket_init failed with rc = 410 (SSL message format
is incorrect)
What release of z/OS are you using?
ISTR starting
On 2/27/2023 4:51 AM, Joseph Reichman wrote:
I just wonder if anyone who have the Zpdt personal edition is running XDC
ISTR Cole Software is also a zPDT customer, so they are most-likely
sensitive to your price concerns...
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> What release of z/OS are you using?
Tried on both V2R4 and V2R5 with identical (at least superficially) results.
> ISTR starting with z/OS 2.4 you must use AT-TLS for secure FTP.
Starting I think with V2R5 you need AT-TLS for the FTP server, and for TLS 1.3
(only) on the client.
https://www
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:54:33 -0600, Charles Mills wrote:
>Just to confirm, by that you mean "SSH FTP" only, and that "FTP over TLS" is
>not supported.
>
FWIW, from a desktop system:
1029 $ sftp public.dhe.ibm.com
The authenticity of host 'public.dhe.ibm.com (170.225.126.18)' can't be
est
Interesting thread. I thought I would add a few points.
REGARDING the checksum: Of course we don't know exactly what the checksum is
checking, but it is reasonable to assume it is the billable MSUs, CPU
consumption that SCRT calculates. That would be:
E5 section in machine level MSU reports,
B
The download server supports FTP over SSL (FTPS) and HTTPS. See SMP/E User
guide Zos 2.5 section “Preparing for secure Internet delivery”. That document
states that you need at-tls because Tls 1.2 is used. This would be for pts
ordering and download via SMP/E. When I have ordered PTFs outside of
On 2/27/2023 9:32 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Starting I think with V2R5 you need AT-TLS for the FTP server, and for TLS 1.3
(only) on the client.
Don't know about TLS 1.3 (we don't use that yet), but it clearly still
supports TLS 1.2. See below:
EZA1450I IBM FTP CS V2R5
EZA1466I FTP: using T
Hi Al!
Re “ I don't recall how a CF LPAR using GCPs showed up.” It shows up with
logical processors in Pool 1 (GCP Pool). It’s discernable as a CF LPAR using
SMF 74-4 which contains Serial and LPAR Number, amongst other identifying
things.
It’s rare I see it but I DO see it.
Cheers, Martin
F
On 2/26/23 7:59 PM, Leonard D Woren wrote:
What those panels should do, but I don't know whether they do this or
not, is display the line command as it's executed.
SMIT(TY) in AIX does something like this. I really like it.
I think it's great for new operators to use the forms to answer
ques
The issue with checksums and explanations was clearly explained by
Edward King (thank you!).
Of course this is rather minor issue, because besides source file
editing there is possibility to add explanations to just submitted file.
However the problem of dummy LPAR causing explanation requirem
Hi all,
I have a silly question that I'm pretty sure I know the answer to but want
verification in case there's some obscure reason for having this. We have
multiple batch job steps that close and open CICS files within the JCL. They
look similar to this:
//STEP010 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
/*$ may be used as a JES2 command. Now, do you have an exit that
looks for this and takes some action?
I was studying the JCL REF after not having really read one for 5
or so years, to find new stuff done to/with/for JCL|JECL.
Steve Thompson
On 2/27/2023 5:19 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
Hi all
Looks to me as useless as the trailing /*. It may be interpreted as
another useless /*. JES2 ignores command statements imbedded in a job
anyway.
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That's what I was thinking. We have no exits looking for it.
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To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Silly JES2 question
Looks to me as useless as the tr
We have no exits in place looking for anything like this. Methinks it's a
waste of a line of JCL.
Thanks,
Rex
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Steve Thompson
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 4:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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I asked once a while ago whether I would get a break because not only am I Zpdt
user
I’m not a company even though I can LLC
My income comes from working in IT
And don’t remember when exactly but was a few years back but was told I would
have to pay the going rate
I’m not exactly sure wha
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, at 22:48, Steve Smith wrote:
> JES2 ignores command statements imbedded in a job anyway.
Doesn't that depend on the COMMAND= parm in the JES2 jobclass
that the job is running in, in theory? Or has that parameter option
been removed?
I suppose some sites might allow it ...
-
We have COMMAND=EXECUTE on a couple job classes.
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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 5:05 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Silly JES2 question
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, at 22:48, Steve Smith
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, at 23:09, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> We have COMMAND=EXECUTE on a couple job classes.
Do you limit who can use those classes?
Does anything (RACF or whatever) limit which commands can
be executed?
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:58:25 +, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>On Mon, 27 Feb 2023, at 23:09, Pommier, Rex wrote:
>> We have COMMAND=EXECUTE on a couple job classes.
>
>Do you limit who can use those classes?
>
>Does anything (RACF or whatever) limit which commands can
>be executed?
>
If a command is r
FWIW what you show is in conflict with what Paul Gorlinsky wrote: that IBM did
not support FTPS.
(I'm not trying to pick a fight. I have reasons for wanting to get FTPS to
work.)
I see that you are using AT-TLS and that is goodness of course but it should
not make a huge difference bottom line
We have been using plain old FTP to IBM (downloading enhanced hold data)
for quite a while now and in the last week or so, we had to convert to
using FTPS (TLS 1.2). So to me, it appears IBM made a change and now
requires a secure connection. Yes, I know we can use SMPE RECEIVE ORDER,
and we do
On 27/2/23 06:46, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 25/02/2023 8:03 am, Bob Bridges wrote:
Oh, I was going to mention that surely allocating datasets, either in
batch or TSO, has got to seem like one of the dumbest and most
incomprehensible things we do on the mainframe, to a foreigner.
Allocating data
While I understand that it may be an unpopular opinion on this forum, I
personally believe that the ISPF editor is outdated relic. As Peter
mentioned, VS Code is a fantastic alternative. Additionally, Microsoft's
GitHub offers the Copilot plugin, which functions as an AI programming
assistant.
How many decades have we had System Determined Blocksize, and other artifacts
of SMS. These details are surely not anything than new folks need to deal with
at the outset.
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On 25/2/23 01:23, Farley, Peter wrote:
Python on the mainframe is pretty good, but still can't beat out Rexx in
performance even when the Rex script needs to use BPXWUNIX and friends to
access z/OS Unix file systems,
I have conducted a series of benchtests, and the results suggest that
REXX
On 28/2/23 13:41, Gibney, Dave wrote:
How many decades have we had System Determined Blocksize, and other artifacts
of SMS. These details are surely not anything than new folks need to deal with
at the outset.
If a young programmer came to you and asked "what is the best DCB for a
C++ source
LIKE=a good representative existing library.
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> On 28
On 28/2/23 13:55, Gibney, Dave wrote:
LIKE=a good representative existing library.
How about: Don't bother kid, use the z/OS UNIX file system instead?
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On 28/2/23 13:47, David Crayford wrote:
On 25/2/23 01:23, Farley, Peter wrote:
Python on the mainframe is pretty good, but still can't beat out Rexx
in performance even when the Rex script needs to use BPXWUNIX and
friends to access z/OS Unix file systems,
I have conducted a series of benc
David, I will have to complain that your python benchmark is not a fair
comparison. Your python script uses a module named pyzfile to access z/OS
files (which I see from PYPI is authored by you but for which you have
published no source yet). A fairer comparison would be a python script that
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