Re: Save the date - Next meeting of the GSE UK Security Working Group

I suppose It will become more and more exclusive as Brexit Progresses? Op ma 18 mrt. 2019 om 14:08 schreef Mark Wilson : > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > We are pleased to announce that the next meeting of the GSE UK Security > Working Group, will take place on Thursday 6th June 2019 at the new office

Re: What is a mainframe?

Welll, in my opinion the mainframe died when IBM allowed tcpip on their servers. From that point onwards it just became another server that could be hacked via TCPIP ports. James O'Leary Op vr 10 jan. 2020 om 21:05 schreef Steve Smith : > Well, it is Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0-pL

Re: What is a mainframe?

IMHO TCP/ip is part and parcel of this new "Open Source / Written by Hackers" we are living in. I cannot believe that C.C.I.T.T.would have recommended to IBM to make their product more hack-able - unless Microsoft or SUN had big influence on C.C.I.T.T. Op di 14 jan. 2020 om 09:51 schreef Dave Wade

MVS in the CLOUD

Hi there, I have seen one can create a DB2 env in the cloud, but can one get a basic MVS system up there, or is that a bit much to ask? Tia James -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

Hi, My answer is NO, unless you want the same vulnerabilities that all the Mickey Mouse operating systems have! https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FShellshock_(software_bug)&ei=rQY7VJ3lDIbd7Qblz4G

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - EXPIRATION OF DSN

Esmie, If I am you, I will do the following to find out for myself what the state of affairs are. I will create a dataset with Expiration Attributes Expire after Days Non-usage . : 10 Expire after Date/Days . . . . : NOLIMIT Retention Limit . . . . . . . : 0 Migration Attributes P

Re: The mainframe is alive

box can handle far more transactions that a row of > open systems servers can. Plus it is a lot more secure from hackers. > Just sayin > On Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:18:12 AM EST, z/OS scheduler < > 07b0d5270c64-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Plea

Re: The mainframe is alive

anyone else, but that is the reality of it all... J. Op ma 3 mrt 2025 om 15:54 schreef Phil Smith III : > Confused by: > > But, that does not make a z/ server a mainframe. > > What does that mean? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behal

Re: The mainframe is alive

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of z/OS scheduler > Sent: Monday, March 3, 2025 10:50 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: The mainframe is alive > > re: ... lot more secure from hackers... > Welll... that is j

Re: The mainframe is alive

Please don't kid yourself ;-) The mainframe died the moment tcpip was introduced and it became "just another server" in the sea of servers. Distraughted James Virus-free.www.avast.com

Re: Subject: IBM z16 VTAM TRLE definition

I got into trouble the other day... I was asked for a runbook, and refused based on the grounds that I refuse to create a runbook and hand it to a monkey. It just seems like the business side thinks they can take a guy of the street, pay him peanuts, hand him a runbook and all will be ok... Was I