Re: COBOL execs Dummy Question

2012-01-26 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
It's alive and well in SYS1.LPALIB. Browse the library, and SORT SIZE Descending, and look at what shows up at the top of the list as the largest. Tom Chicklon Somewhere over in DFSMS, there's IGDZILLA :-) -jc-

Re: CSFEUTIL RC

2011-12-07 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
What type of processor are you trying to run this on? Found this restriction is the Crypto Services Admin Guide: Restriction: You cannot use this utility to initialize a CKDS (and load DES and PKA master keys using a pass phrase) on the z990, z890, z9 EC, z9 BC, z10 EC, z10 BC, and z196. On the

Re: GDG

2011-10-25 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
It would depends on the requirements. If on day one, nothing is to be considered new or different (not sure what the compare is reporting), then copying G1 to G2 before the compare would work. On the other hand, if on day one, everything is to be considered new or different, as part of the

Re: USS - file can't be deleted.

2011-10-12 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Matan, It has nothing to do with your problem. Chris believes USS can only be used to refer to Unformatted System Services, to use it to mean Unix System Services is not to be allowed. He has fought wars over this. Many have learned to ignore the war, and simply help those who ask easily

Re: whereis command for TSO.

2011-10-07 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
TSO ISRDDN or DDLIST seem to be suffering from a lack of exposure and thus low use. There are other hidden gems in there too. Con (contention) and Enq (enqueue) are ones I frequently use. The valid list primary commands are: ApfBrowse ConCList

Re: CA MSM v4 on z/os 1.9

2011-10-06 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
We just licensed a new CA product, and I thought it might be a good time to look at bringing in MSM to install it. I spent about half a day downloading MSM, and looking at the installation process. Seemed like it would be a while before MSM was up and doing productive work, and a bit overkill

Re: alter dataset blocksize

2011-08-26 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
We all know you can trash a partitioned dataset by writing to one specifying a different block size. Maybe you can use this to your advantage. How about moving all members out to a different library, then use a batch job to copy them back, specifying the new block size you now want. Before:

Re: Get a user password from RACF.

2011-08-19 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
A little Friday fun... We all know what the decrypted password is in a RACF database - it's the user ID! The trick it to determine the key used to encrypt it in the first place... Tom Chicklon -Original Message- It could probably be decrypted, if you've got enough computer

Re: Get a user password from RACF.

2011-08-18 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Older releases of Top Secret used to allow for a user's password to be displayed with a simple TSS list command. It required the PWVIEW system option to be turned on, as well as specific authority on the security admin's ACID. This ability to display passwords is (fortunately) no longer available.

Re: Get a user password from RACF.

2011-08-18 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
I am not aware of this being documented anywhere. Maybe someone else can jump in with that info if they have it. Tom Chicklon -Original Message- thanks , Is the literature specifying the HASH algurithm and where the HASH password is located? This e-mail transmission contains

Re: Get a user password from RACF.

2011-08-18 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Unfortunately, this was true. TSS did provided a way to display a users password. Fortunately, they've seen the light and removed this ability. Imagine trying to prove any particular user was responsible for something done with their ID when some number of security admins could all display, and

Re: Enforcing job name conventions - which exit?

2011-08-10 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
IEFUJV can do everything, and the TSO submit exit would not be necessary. Duplicating the code in the TSO submit exit is a way of being nice to the users and letting them know at submit time that there is a problem with the way they coded their job card. Otherwise, it can be much later for a

Re: RV: Transmission files

2011-07-07 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
This seems to work for me: quote site blksize=27998 lrecl=0 recfm=u pri=19950 sec=100 track mode b ebcdic PUT 'My.DSS.DUMP' 'MY.DSS.DUMP' QUIT

Re: An unnecessary controversy (Was: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD)

2011-06-28 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Cheryl, thanks for the kind words. I am in no way a professional writer, so a compliment from you is taken as a high honor. To be honest, I still use USS as I see fit too. A few months ago, I was willing to say anything to make the tortuous arguing stop. Now, I have outlook rules in place that

Re: Escon and Ficon Extensions

2011-06-24 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Years ago, at an employer far, far away, we used to perform our disaster recovery tests in Chicago. From the parking lot on those late nights, I remember watching the string of airplanes overhead lining up to land at O'Hare. At first, it was just in amazement at how many planes there were in that

Re: TSO STATUS and IKJ56192I/IKJ56211I msgs

2011-06-13 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
This is controlled by the TSO PROFILE MSGID option. Looks like your first example is run on a system with MSGID, the second on a system with NOMSGID. To change, use TSO PROFILE MSGID to turn on, or TSO PROFILE NOMSGID to turn it off. Tom Chicklon i use STATUS in come

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-24 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Maybe I understand what you want... You log on, and enter 1;START 2;START 3.2;START 3.3;START 3.4;START S Your SWAPBAR looks like: VIEW EDIT DSUTIL MCOPY-DSLIST *SDSF You are currently in SDSF (note the '*'), and PF9 will swap between DSLIST (note the '-') and SDSF each time

Re: Running Security System

2011-05-18 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Check out the RCVT control block. You'll find a pointer to it in the CVT. On my system running Top Secret, the RCVTID field changes to RTSS. I *think* on a RACF system it contains RCTV. Not sure what you would find with a systems running ACF2. Tom Chicklon Hi, How do I find out, researching

Re: Leaving IBM-MAIN

2011-05-05 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
I too, hate to see someone leave due to a high level of noise on the list. Most e-mail clients allow you to set criteria or rules to send certain mail straight to the trash. If there are topics or posters you are not interesting in seeing, send that to the trash and keep participating in what is

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-03 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Yeah, just when I conceded to never misuse USS, along comes IBM. IBM! In an OFFICIAL PUBLICATION! Now what are we to think? I'm just so confused now. Tom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Tuesday, May

Re: An unnecessary controversy (Was: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD)

2011-05-02 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
OK, you win. USS is officially only to be used when speaking of VTAM's table thing. We've all seen the references, and what is official, and what is right, and what is not, and who says it shouldn't have been. You're right. You win! Problem is, most of us just don't care. Really. We don't care

Re: Problem with DFDSS using filtering?

2011-01-27 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Even with TYPRUN=NORUN, you will still get the list of datasets that *would* have been included. I'm betting is has more to do with the single asterisk in the dataset name mask. Tom Chicklon Lead Systems Programmer Information Technology - Mainframe Services Fifth Third Bank 1830 East Paris

Re: List administrator?

2011-01-25 Thread Chicklon, Thomas
Yes Darren was very quick to help. And for that, I am very grateful. Tom Chicklon -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: List