Re: Large arbitrary 3270 screen sizes and IBM Dallas

2016-04-22 Thread Andrew Rowley
I do, and for me it just works. I normally connect with 50 x 140 but I just tried 80 x 140 and it looks fine (also using Vista). I have never heard of TSO4B4 - I just use "TSO" Andrew Rowley On 23/04/2016 10:51 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Is anyone using a large screen size -- I am

Re: Large arbitrary 3270 screen sizes and IBM Dallas

2016-04-22 Thread Andrew Rowley
ot; to specify the height and width. That's about all I know how to change :-) Regards Andrew Rowley On 23/04/2016 11:55 AM, Charles Mills wrote: If you look at the logon screen TSO4B4 is one of the prompts. I used TSO and that's better. The screen looks right -- not "sk

Re: Large arbitrary 3270 screen sizes and IBM Dallas

2016-04-22 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 23/04/2016 01:26 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Aha! You're not coming in through VM I had exactly the same thought when I read your last message, "Ah, you're coming in through VM!" Yes, I connect directly through TCP/IP. I guess with VM you don't have to expose TCP/IP or setup a VPN. Also your

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

2016-04-28 Thread Andrew Rowley
hould help. I have a memory of a similar vintage that it could be done with VLF, but I can't remember the details. Sorry if this is too vague to be useful :-) Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software On 28/04/2016 10:32 PM, Kreiter IBM-Main wrote: Hello, I'm looking for some suggestions on

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

2016-04-28 Thread Andrew Rowley
ou realistically get. Perhaps looking at the velocity of SYSSTC might give an idea of the limit of achievable velocity? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: SMP/E Feature?

2016-05-05 Thread Andrew Rowley
and others didn't, or if some overrides became out of date. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with t

Re: SMP/E Feature?

2016-05-10 Thread Andrew Rowley
raries. If you assemble with a different SYSLIB it breaks that principle. But, I admit, it is a long time since I have maintained a real system with SMP/E. Andrew Rowley -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386

Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-16 Thread Andrew Rowley
ying the origin, whatever transport is used. It might only be a matter of time before auditors start asking for it. Alternatively, if the FTPS/HTTPS certificates are using SHA-1 I think the momentum of the rest of the world will force change, whether or not it is a significant security exposure.

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-16 Thread Andrew Rowley
kely is it that something be corrupted in a situation where you can get a hash to verify but can't verify a signature? - Anything else to think about? Lots, I'm sure! It's probably worth also looking at the implementation of signed SMF data to see how they do it. Andrew Rowley

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

2016-05-17 Thread Andrew Rowley
n of something without knowing the correct place to get that particular public key. Andrew Rowley -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email t

BPX.SMF misuse?

2016-05-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
ire authorization, so it shouldn't be too much of a stretch to keep the statistics somewhere that they could be included in the type 30. Much better than writing them from userland in JZOS. Andrew Rowley -- Andrew Rowley Black

Re: BPX.SMF misuse?

2016-05-30 Thread Andrew Rowley
access to write JZOS statistics, you can also write any data into any SMF record type you like, including writing your own type 30, type 80, type 89... -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: BPX.SMF misuse?

2016-05-31 Thread Andrew Rowley
important. Interesting... JZOS writes type 121, and I thought it wasn't writing records without access to BPX.SMF... maybe I need to retest and confirm. Andrew Rowley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: BPX.SMF misuse?

2016-05-31 Thread Andrew Rowley
rds look very useful, but I'm not sure whether the security issue means that sites should not normally be using them. Andrew Rowley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@li

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
ghtly surprised that it isn't already done. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-23 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 22/05/2015 12:52 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: My understanding is that m$ not only insists that the software be digitally signed, but that m$ controls the process. I have no objection to digital signatures per se, but the user should be in control of which CA's are trusted. Who do you t

Re: RMF data to Excel

2015-07-16 Thread Andrew Rowley
various reports (which may avoid the need to use Excel) and can also send data from tabular reports to Excel for more processing. See details at: http://www.blackhillsoftware.com/easysmf/ Regards Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
ery slow. Actually one way to test might be to make the Java heap larger than real storage, then create and delete objects to consume it... Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software On 5/08/2015 0:13, Vlcek, Vitezslav Vit wrote: Is it possible to limit number of frames of real storage on job level?

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-05 Thread Andrew Rowley
that overhead to garbage collection time instead of doing it continuously. What IS bad is when it needs to check which objects are still referenced, and half the address space is paged out. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-06 Thread Andrew Rowley
" is a moving target. I would say it is enough storage inactive for long enough that parts of the heap might be paged out. It would be unusual for a few hundred MB in a normal batch job to be an issue. Regards Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software * My understanding of what happens. I&#

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-09 Thread Andrew Rowley
Strategies like optthruput are not so clear - optimize throughput vs. what? The documentation sounds like maximum work in minimum elapsed time but many people would want to minimize CPU time, at the expense of elapsed time if necessary. Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software On 08/08/2015 08:03 PM, J

Re: Catalog entry not visible

2015-08-27 Thread Andrew Rowley
Stretching my memory, isn't there something about VSAM files can only be cataloged in 1 catalog, unless they are SYS1.* datasets? I think there is some information in the VVDS? Regards Andrew Rowley On 27/08/2015 22:24, Nathan Astle wrote: Hi John, I do have the Product libraries i

Re: Syncsort changes hands

2015-10-14 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 14/10/2015 20:25, Timothy Sipples wrote: Fun fact: Syncsort's new owners also own Jacuzzi. So we can look forward to the return of the bubble sort! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-03 Thread Andrew Rowley
signed. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-03 Thread Andrew Rowley
verified using pre-arranged public keys. So you only need the public keys rather than a means to get a verifiable checksum for each package (really the signature + public keys are the means to verify the checksum). -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-03 Thread Andrew Rowley
rdest bit of cryptography. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
itself is signed by a CA, or a second key used to establish a secure session to get the first key is signed by a CA, a CA is still involved. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
certificate to use with TLS etc? I would have said the certificate includes a signed public key, but I admit I am far from an expert on this stuff. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-05 Thread Andrew Rowley
rom the CA. Not quite - the recipient verifies the signature using my public key, provided by me in the certificate. They verify that the certificate I provide is genuine by checking the certificate signature using the public key from the CA. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 4

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-05 Thread Andrew Rowley
re but I'm not quite seeing it. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

2018-04-06 Thread Andrew Rowley
aining my public key (which I could include with the message), and that certificate can be verified using the public key contained form the CA. So there was a step and a key missing from the process. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Soft

Re: Any C++ regex template class gotchas?

2018-04-08 Thread Andrew Rowley
d or not - this sort of stuff is why I avoid C++, too complex for me :-) -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMF record analyze

2018-04-24 Thread Andrew Rowley
contributed to the MSU peaks. There is a free 30 day trial which would probably answer the original poster's question: http://www.blackhillsoftware.com/downloads/easysmf/ Andrew Rowley -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 3 5331

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

2018-05-02 Thread Andrew Rowley
   }     }     } } I don't have any data where user key common is in use but I have tested it as well as I can without that. There is a 30 day trial available if anyone wants to try it out on their system: https://www.blackhillsoftware.com/30-day-trial/ Andrew Rowley -- Andrew R

Re: Rant

2018-05-03 Thread Andrew Rowley
the merchandise." Most people here would be paying IBM for software licenses, so are indirectly paying for documentation i.e. Knowledge Center. Is the search you're paying for better than the free Google one? -- Andrew Rowley

Re: problem with FTP from Windows 10 to z/OS

2018-06-01 Thread Andrew Rowley
for Linux which gives you the option of using a Linux FTP client. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 My experience has been that the Linux client is more flexible and there is also more documentation available. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software

Re: FTP performance problem.

2018-06-06 Thread Andrew Rowley
be a similar parameter on z/OS - if so it would be interesting to test with z/OS as the receiver. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software +61 413 302 386 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: JNI - Release

2024-10-07 Thread Andrew Rowley
original array. You probably want to copy it first and then perform __atoe on the destination. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@list

Re: SMTP zOS in Python

2024-09-18 Thread Andrew Rowley
/06/21/sending-email-from-zos-using-java/ -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Java 8 java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream and zEDC

2024-09-27 Thread Andrew Rowley
used? For performance, there was a  recommendation to wrap the GZIPOutputStream in a BufferedOutputStream. That was on the z14, I don't know whether it's still required on the z15 bu it shouldn't hurt. -- Andrew Rowley

Re: converting Cobol to java - remaining on the mainframe

2024-12-10 Thread Andrew Rowley
ecific jar files (IBM hasn't made this easy!) , but that's the best way to do it. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@list

Re: File transfer question

2025-01-19 Thread Andrew Rowley
d the RDW format, except that the length was little endian. FWIW, you can do it easily with Co:Z SFTP. Yes, Co:Z SFTP works well. Unfortunately it isn't available at all sites. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software --

Re: File transfer question

2025-01-17 Thread Andrew Rowley
of which is truly reliable. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Code to Process SMF Type 64 Records?

2025-01-29 Thread Andrew Rowley
n the EasySMF Windows software. Both are paid products, but if it's a short term requirement the free trial period might be sufficient. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: Save CPU in z/OSMF and reduce its startup time

2025-01-13 Thread Andrew Rowley
. That's reinforced by type 92 SMF records which suggest that the same doc.zip files are being read over and over again - thousands of times! -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Save CPU in z/OSMF and reduce its startup time

2025-01-14 Thread Andrew Rowley
could check the modified date on the zip files to rebuild the index after maintenance, rather than rebuild it every time... -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Curiosity question on batch job management

2025-03-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
isn't monopolized by non discretionary work. Having small amounts of discretionary work doesn't work. Large amounts of discretionary works beautifully. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 18 Mar 2025 to 19 Mar 2025 (#2025-76)

2025-03-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
n you elaborate? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z17

2025-04-16 Thread Andrew Rowley
would need to be adjusted, but it would ultimately benefit everyone. I'm writing this on a laptop with 10 cores - would a minimum of e.g.  4 CPU and 600 MSU for a z17 be too much to ask? Maybe they could align the smallest z17 with the recommended minimum capacity for z/OSMF? -- Andrew Ro

Re: Packed decimal sign nibbles

2025-04-28 Thread Andrew Rowley
n unsigned number? Can you do arithmetic with it? Or is it just treated as a positive number? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.u

Re: Packed decimal sign nibbles

2025-04-28 Thread Andrew Rowley
ing output? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: How do I enable SMF for TCP/IP Record type 119?

2025-04-13 Thread Andrew Rowley
PTerm   ZERTDETail   ZERTSUMmary You may not want all of these, particularly ZERTDETAIL. Once you know where they are you can look up the specific options to decide whether to turn them on. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Sof

Re: Use of JZOS batch

2025-04-15 Thread Andrew Rowley
ob address space. In other cases the Java program is likely to run in a different address space so the CPU time etc. is harder to track. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: Packed decimal sign nibbles

2025-05-02 Thread Andrew Rowley
L! What's the difference in the representation? Is unsigned 1234: 0x01234F or 0x001234 -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

2025-04-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
including decompressing the records in Java. Could you process 12GB/s in COBOL? I doubt it. I would say it's also easier to debug than COBOL, but that is probably more a case of what you are used to. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software

Re: Storage Pools

2025-05-19 Thread Andrew Rowley
ending DCOLLECT data to Splunk and setting up some dashboards with current space, history etc. Contaact me directly if you're interested in that. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: RTFM

2025-05-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
a batch job that backs up multiple members, or if your site uses SMP/E to manage system libraries (which might require more caution). -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: RTFM

2025-05-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
gnize the wrong answers. The success of AI is based on situations where people want convincing answers quickly and cheaply but don't care whether they are correct e.g. customer support. I don't think that's going to have good results long t

Re: RTFM

2025-05-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
e the correct answer. I'm not sure that will ever be true, and they have already processed the best quality data. So it might get much better, or it the current approach might be an AI dead-end that diverts from better solutions. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Re: RTFM

2025-05-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
often separate from the developers, so they don't necessarily know the product well i.e. actually use it. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: RTFM

2025-05-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
es the training data come from, and how does the model verify the reliability? -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu w

Re: Auditing/Logging of DSFS activities

2025-07-10 Thread Andrew Rowley
92 to reflect the real userid. If it doesn't it's arguably a bug. SMF 14/15 probably depends on the architecture of the DSFS, e.g. whether it creates a seperate task running under the real userid. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hil

Streaming SYSLOG/OPERLOG

2025-07-22 Thread Andrew Rowley
hanks -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Streaming SYSLOG/OPERLOG

2025-07-24 Thread Andrew Rowley
sing an obvious better way. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

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