Failed Disk Data Exposure

Here's a Friday topic: With modern disk arrays, e.g. DS8000, what is the real exposure of meaningful residual data being recovered from a single drive out of the array. I can't seem to find anything definitive other than a lot of data may be recoverable statements from vendors selling secure

Re: Strip column 1 from reports

IEBGENER. Assuming standard 133 byte records this should do the trick: //REPORT EXEC PGM=REPORT //SYSPRINT DD DSN=SYSOUT,DISP=(,PASS), // DCB=(RECFM=FBA,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=133), // UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(133,(500)) //* //IEBGENER EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSPRINT

Re: ACF2 - RACF Conversion Utility

I think Vanguard has tools to do that. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Request for comments on the GDG IEFAB461 exit

I'm not sure I understand the problem the exit is attempting to resolve. Perhaps an example would provide for better discussion. My immediate reaction was why not simply use DSN=*.stepname.ddname and be done with it, but I realize there must be more to the story than that. -- Donald

Re: RACF Passticket: password required on userid?

It works the same in ACF2. The passticket generator has no idea that the logonid is restricted (or protected) so a passticket is generated. However, passwords and by extension passtickets, are not allowed for these logons and so the request is appropriately rejected. Set a complex

Re: Prob with DFHMAPS

You will need to look inside the cataloged procedure DFHMAPS to see what datasets are on the SYSLIB DD. By default it looks like this: //SYSLIB DD DSN=INDEX..SDFHMAC,DISP=SHR // DD DSN=SYS1.MACLIB,DISP=SHR It's probable that you simply need to correct the INDEX parm either in

Re: ISPF Workstation Agent for Windows 7?

Ditto here. Another option would be to use a virtual machine. I keep an instance of XP around for that odd ball situation where something won't run on my Win7 host. I use VMware at work, but Virtual Box from Oracle is free. I use it at home and am quite happy with it. -- Donald

Re: USS Education (Was: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS)

Not really. Consider the source. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

We use Bluezone 3270 here and it has a checkbox under the keyboard options labeled: Convert Input to Upper-Case. With that set the 3270 input displays as upper case regardless of the status of the keyboard and does not affect mixed case display fields. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana

Re: OT measures was Re: Out damn'd GMT ...

I think in this case the term state is not wholly inappropriate: state (n): 8.the territory, or one of the territories, of a government. Respectfully submitted by a former resident (and still citizen) of said province. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Learn

Re: units (was: Out damn'd GMT ...)

And how many cubits of said rope would we need to get a handle on all this Friday fun! -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov For some must watch while some must sleep, Thus runs the world away. -- Shakespeare, Hamlet -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'

Lizette, I think John's suggestion has merit. On the first transfer (Unix to Windows) are you specifying ascii or binary? Specifying ascii should correctly translate the Unix new line to the Windows CRLF. Then your second transfer (Windows to z/OS) should work correctly. This also explains

Re: OMVS Telnet Client

Putty will give you an ssh client for your workstation. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Once you have the windows executable installed, ssh to your z/OS system and from there use the mainframe's ssh client to get to your other system. This assumes you have openssh on your

Re: OT to my collegues

I had to carry them on CD, ugh.. Now that makes me smile. I can only wonder what my kids will be telling their kids about how tough they had it back in the days of iPods and all that jazz. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Up until age seventy, to some

Re: Analytics in prime time!

This seems, somehow, appropriate here: They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. -- Janet Reno -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes (Who will watch the watchers?) -- Juvenal, Sixth Satire, 1st

Re: Trouble with Redbooks Link

I just downloaded the End to End Security one without any trouble using Firefox. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without getting angry. -- anonymous -Original

Re: why did i just need to sign in to gmail, just to view ibm-main? is it proprietary now?

Mr. Mason, It's really sad that you feel the constant need to lash out at anybody and everybody who has any viewpoint other than your own. You seem like a knowledgeable person, however, I can't get past the fact that you behave like an obnoxious boor in almost all of your posts to this forum.

Re: Rockets in Ashdod, very near to my home, yesterday and today.

Reminds me of my time in Afghanistan...if the rockets went overhead, good. If they came down on your side of the sandbags, not so good. God willing, you'll remain safe and this nonsense will eventually end. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi

Re: UNIX (USS)

I got around that by convincing said powers that VMWare Workstation was necessary to my health and well being and now I'm happily Linuxing away. When I need to convince somebody that the problem is NOT due to my Linux environment, I've got the standard Windows desktop to prove it. Regards,

Re: Enforcing job name conventions - which exit?

You could also look at what controls you can implement in your security software...rather than writing individual rules you could handle it in a pre-validation exit and reject any jobs that don't match your criteria. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov There are

Re: Does this apply to some of the messages here?

Yeah...especially since the other two are already dead. Sorry, just couldn't resist. ;) -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: FTP from IBM's book server

Oh and just in case your mainframe only supports secure ftp, it should be noted that Softcopy Librarian doesn't. In that case you will need an ftp client proxy. There are a few to choose from, but one that was simple to implement and supports both Linux and Windows can be found at

Re: FTP from IBM's book server

Out of curiosity I just installed both Softcopy Librarian and Reader under Wine 1.2.3 on openSUSE 11.3 and it appears to work just fine. I assume your individual mileage may vary. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov The use of traveling is to regulate

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

I for one never cease to be amazed by the fact that the inevitable thrash over these postings generates orders of magnitude more traffic than if we simply let the offensive (highly subjective qualifier) post sail by. If it's a really blatant case of shameless self-promotion, e.g. check out

Re: A JCL SMTP with attached files and with the USERID that submit the bath process

This might be a good starting point. You will have to modify things to your liking, but when done it will create and send a plain text file and attach it as mxgreport.txt. There are probably more elegant methods, but this is a starting point you could work from. Note that for MIME the blank

Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference (watch the line wrap on the link) http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2e2a1/2.2?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0IDT=20100121143930 Site specific symbols will be defined in SYS1.PARMLIB(IEASYMxx) -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983

Re: USS vs USS

Not perfect, but close... Vogonism: (n) originally defined as being overly bureaucratic; sticking too much to the book and leaving no room for original interpretation; requiring every single person to perceive and understand things only in a single, usually literal, fashion. -- Donald

Re: USS vs USS

Language is evolutionary. Acronyms are an extension of language. It seems to me that the big argument here is that once an acronym is used for one thing it may never, ever be used for any other purpose else mass confusion will result, the earth will stop spinning on it's axis and we'll all

Re: FTP question

Check out the FTP Client API for REXX in the CS: IP Programmer's Guide and Reference. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/f1a1d390/13.0?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0I.bksDT=20090331112644 -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Courage is going from failure

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 1, updating an open PMR)

Barbara, Don't sugar coat it, tell us how you really feel! -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. -- Samuel Johnson

Re: creating mainframe bookmanager from pdf documents???

Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2011 05:22 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: creating mainframe bookmanager from pdf documents??? On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:34:56 +, Grinsell, Don dgrins...@mt.gov wrote: Chris, I don't know

Re: creating mainframe bookmanager from pdf documents???

Chris, I don't know if this is of interest, but it is possible to create an extended bookshelf and load your pdf files to make them accessible via book manager. You can also index and search the pdf files if desired. I've taken that approach with several vendors manuals. -- Donald

Re: Is RMF Better?

Chip, I don't know if such a document actually exists, but we just switched from CMF to RMF last week. In our case the cost was significantly less for RMF. CMF has a few more bells and whistles, but we weren't taking advantage of them. RMF gives us what we need at a lower cost and at the

Re: List administrator?

You could have him try it the old fashioned way by sending the following message to lists...@bama.ua.edu SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov The difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that you can explain a conviction without

Re: help

42 ... it's Friday -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Humans are the best value in computers. Where else can you get a non-linear computer weighing only about 160 pounds, having a billion binary decision elements, that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor?

Re: Off topic Friday - Why did I do this?

Did you recently celebrate a milestone birthday? This seems suspiciously like a senior moment. Happy Friday! -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. It is a real tragedy that in an

Re: Filename in lowercase

If you script your ftp with REXX you can use the following to convert a filename from uppercase to lowercase: UPPER = 'FILENAME' LOWER = BITXOR(UPPER,,'40'X) PUT UPPER LOWER That would result in the command: PUT FILENAME filename You could then loop through all

Re: Filename in lowercase

I knew it was too easy! XOR seemed quick and easy, but TRANSLATE will definitely cover a broader set of circumstances. LOWER = TRANSLATE(UPPER,'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ') And we're off to the races. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983

Re: Someone has training manuals or notes that can help me

Go to the z/OS Basic Skills Center and look for the Installation and Maintenance link on the left. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/basics/index.jsp -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Hope is not a plan. -- Gen. Peter Pace, USMC -Original

Nullify Effect of $EJ command

Cross posted to CICS-L and IBM-Main We have an occasional problem where an operator inadvertently issues the JES $E restart command against one of our CICS regions. The effect of the $E command is deferred until the current job step ends...typically with the weekly restart. The problem is

Re: Nullify Effect of $EJ command

Lizette, Thanks for the response. That was what I was afraid of when I couldn't find anything in the manuals. I like the idea of trapping the command with AF/Operator and will do some playing there. Regards, Don -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov I never

Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card

Try this: Parse sysoutline.x pdsname ( memname ) Say memname -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left. -- Chinese Proverb -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card

[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Grinsell, Don Sent: Friday, 10 September 2010 10:00 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card Try this: Parse sysoutline.x pdsname ( memname ) Say memname -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444

Re: H/w vs S/W Encryption?

That's what we need: Z-cycles. The biggest, baddest motorcycles on the planet!!! -- With a bolt on z-BXCar that can hold up to 112 additional riders! Sorry ... couldn't resist. Happy Monday! Don Grinsell State of Montana --

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

Lizette, We just went through a TN3270 RFP and chose Bluezone as a replacement for Attachmate. We deploy via traditional thick client, thin client, served desktop and Citrix. If you want more information on our selection criteria, contact me offline and I'll send you the technical

Re: JCL Mass Editor

PDSUPDTE supports multiple libraries in one run and is based on IPOUPDTE. You can get it and documentation here: http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/cbtware/pdsupdte.htm I believe it's also available at http://www.cbttape.org -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov

Re: JCL Mass Editor

Ah, then let me say thanks for your effort. I've gotten great use out of it. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. -- John F Kennedy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm?

John, I was intrigued by the possibilities so worked up a quick little example. There may be better ways of getting this done, but this seemed to work. This simply obtains a list of the any jobs active in classes u j and displays them one per line on a web page: /* REXX */