Re: ENF Listener usage

2012-06-11 Thread Phil Smith
Thanks for all the responses. To answer the questions (I think): CSA in use is the size of the ENF listener load module and some 256 bytes of working storage from CSA-not a whole lot, but the Started Task that makes the ENF listener start and stop could potentially be bounced a lot while the

Re: FYI LinkedIn passwords hacked

2012-06-08 Thread Phil Smith
was the salt for that account doesn't help (much), because now you have to hash every password you're trying against clark.mor...@company.com. This is why unsalted=bad, as is using the same salt for all the passwords. Does this make sense? -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p

ENF Listener usage

2012-06-07 Thread Phil Smith
listener registered when one is not needed. Which approach have you seen? Which is better (and why)? Thanks, -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-29 Thread Phil Smith
of assigned values, to avoid collisions. It's also not clear that STCK counts as random, since it's monotonically incrementing-crypto geeks don't like values like that. -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-29 Thread Phil Smith
, but it'll sure *look* random. -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Phil Smith
-your-company (or at least your job) in many cases. Cheers, -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com (703) 476-4511 (home office) (703) 568-6662 (cell

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-28 Thread Phil Smith
, including Fortune 50 and three of the top ten card processors. Actually, since the masked data is never seen by any customers, I'm not sure that it would even matter-would it? -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp

Re: Co-existance of z/OS and z/VM on same DASD farm

2012-05-20 Thread Phil Smith
Paul Gilmartin wrote: So, who won? It doesn't sound as if the climate would admit a compromise? VM/XA MA begat VM/XA SF begat VM/XA SP, which eventually moved to Endicott, and became VM/ESA and then z/VM. The core of VM/XA was actually much better than VM/SP; as a developer I found it much

Re: Codepages and locales

2012-05-14 Thread Phil Smith
the code(set )page? I've done some searching on this, but not found the right book - I keep finding product books that talk about how to set it *for that product*, which of course isn't what I'm looking for. Thanks again... -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage

Re: Codepages and locales

2012-05-11 Thread Phil Smith
Paul Gilmartin wrote: Different from what. Everything is different from something else. Perhaps different from IBM-1047? Doh, yeah, sorry. It seemed obvious at the time... - but of course you're right, it wasn't. ...phsiii --

Codepages and locales

2012-05-10 Thread Phil Smith
How many z/OS shops actually run with a different locale (codepage)? I mean both globally for the entire system as well as within one or more databases. I'm assuming the second set is much larger than the first; it's the first I'm really interested in. Thanks. ...phsiii

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-11 Thread Phil Smith
Thanks for all the responses; off to hospital for spinal surgery, more anon. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
was omitted or really passed as zero. Our API is flexible: if you don't specify an output buffer length, it uses the input buffer length. But that doesn't want to work in PL/I. Ideas? -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Comstock wrote: Ah, so that's what you want it for. But if the output buffer length is zero, doesn't that tell you to use the input buffer? And if an argument is omitted, it will appear as zero, right? I mean, why else would you pass a buffer length of zero? Because users make mistakes? I

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Comstock wrote: I'm confused here, because the title of the thread is 'C calling HLASM' and here we are talking about PL/I. Yeah, true...topic drift. Renamed. So what's really going on here that is the mystery? My guess is: you have a C function that you want to call from, in this

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
Frank Swarbrick suggested using a CALL instead of a function. I'll try that; I'm not sure it's an acceptable change to the usage, but thanks. I'm off after today for surgery for a herniated disc, so might be a while. Still find it hard to believe that PL/I makes this so hard! ...phsiii

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
OK, Steve, here's the previous post...thanks again! From: Phil Smith Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:00 AM To: ibm-main@bama.ua.edu Subject: RE: Re: LE C calling HLASM Steve Comstock wrote: Ah, so that's what you want it for. But if the output buffer length is zero, doesn't that tell you to use

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Comstock wrote: re whether we'll expect customers to be running Enterprise PL/I: And the answer is? Oops...meant to answer this. Um...I guess whatever's current was my assumption. Are the older compilers supported? Re our C prototype: Do you really have the ellipsis? If so, my reading of

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Comstock wrote: Umm... that doesn't show the COBOL call, nor the Assembler call those are what I was wanting to see, to compare them to your PL/I invocations ? COBOL is basically the same, don't have assembler handy but that's even easier: call THEFUNCTION using inbuffer inlength inbuffer

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Comstock wrote: But I would like to see the code you use to test the high bit, please. Nothing proprietary, just informative OK, something like this: L R2,0(,R8) TM0(R8),X'80' BOLASTPARM ? Pretty basic...

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Comstock wrote: Yes. But that's Assembler. I thought the called routine was C, and you were testing the parms passed in the C routine. Is that not true? Are there more layers here? Yes, there are lots of layers, it's a mixture of assembler and C, sorry. The point is, we're confident that

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Comstock wrote: Slipperier and slipperier. OK, let's try a different approach: You tell me exactly what you want to see from the PL/I routine calling your API and I'll see if I can cause PL/I to construct that. In other words, your routine will see (R1) - rc =

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Smith
Bernd Oppolzer wrote: I don't know if it helps you, but using C I would code the two calls this way: rc = THEFUNCTION (magic, inputbuffer,inputlength, NULL, NULL); Exactly backwards-the idea here is to NOT be obscure, but to have a nice, flexible, intuitive API. Having to specify null

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-06 Thread Phil Smith
they were omitted or specified as zero. Ideas?? -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com (703) 476-4511 (home office) (703) 568-6662 (cell

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-06 Thread Phil Smith
Is there a reliable way to tell we were called by PL/I? If so, we could ignore zeroes for PL/I. And document it. ISTR there being a magic fullword in the savearea for PL/I? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

TSO userid character sets

2012-03-31 Thread Phil Smith
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TSO userid character sets

2012-03-31 Thread Phil Smith
Phil Smith III p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: TSO userid character sets

2012-03-31 Thread Phil Smith
RS: Thanks! That's the answer I was hoping to hear... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-30 Thread Phil Smith
. So if you can't use LIST with LINKAGE(SYSTEM), how is the called routine supposed to know the end of the plist? -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com (703) 476-4511 (home office) (703) 568-6662 (cell

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-30 Thread Phil Smith
... -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com (703) 476-4511 (home office) (703) 568-6662 (cell) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-28 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Comstock wrote: On 3/23/2012 2:57 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Now for the next question: this allows us to implement variable parameter lists in C, by declaring the functions thus: int SOMEFUNCTION(char *someparm, ...); Is there an equivalent way to do this in PL/I? In the declare

Re: XEDIT change in 6.2 ?

2012-03-27 Thread Phil Smith
this is just me... -- .phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-27 Thread Phil Smith
Scott Ford wrote: Had a Hasp RJE like that John, everytime it rained there were strange creatures on the phone lines...of course the standard phone company reply was classic, no problems here and the problems always disappeared. I'm certainly no apologist for Big Phone, but have to relate a

Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!

2012-03-26 Thread Phil Smith
, the architecture is software, go figure). But yeah, it's confusing. IBM should have a TLA Czar, and an ETLA Czar (obviously different people for no apparent reason!) who must rule on all such acronyms. Yes, I'm kidding about the last... -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com

Re: Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-24 Thread Phil Smith
10,000 volts (or some such huge number) down the feed by mistake. Oops... -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-23 Thread Phil Smith
When writing an LC C program that calls an HLASM function, the last element of the parameter list does not have the high-order bit set. Is there an option to force it to do so? We can't seem to find one?! -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-23 Thread Phil Smith
this in PL/I? -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: XEDIT change in 6.2 ?

2012-03-21 Thread Phil Smith
, LOWercase or UPPercase would fix it easily enough. Those were the days! -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Theology question

2012-03-20 Thread Phil Smith
I should have noted that NULL, NONE, et al. are valid, so we can't really use any of them. Something like *NONE would work, but is also pretty ugly. -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com (703) 476-4511

Re: Theology question

2012-03-20 Thread Phil Smith
Thanks to all who responded. I'm convinced. quote quote it is! -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Theology question

2012-03-19 Thread Phil Smith
the global default. One of us feels that the double quote is ugly and error-prone. Based on the collective wisdom of the centuries, what *feels* right to you? -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com

ENF listener example

2012-02-21 Thread Phil Smith
Anyone have an example of an ENF listener that works? We're having a devil of a time getting one going (ENF Event Code 37, SMF listener). We can get it loaded in CSA but it never gets woken up! Thanks, -- ...phsiii -- For

Re: ENF listener example

2012-02-21 Thread Phil Smith
Jim Mulder wrote: If you have IPCS for z/OS 1.13, and a dump which includes CSA, you can do VERBX IEFENFVX '37'  (displays listeners for event code 37)  or VERBX IEFENFVX   (displays listeners for all event codes) Well, I don't...and not clear how that would help me? Or are you suggesting that

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-02 Thread Phil Smith
Kees Vernooij wrote: That confirms my other translation and answers my question about this term for sheep. Since your name and domain look Dutch, you might be interested in the etymology: Origin: before 900; Middle English fold, fald, Old English fald, falod; akin to Old Saxon faled pen,

Re: TOD clock format

2012-01-31 Thread Phil Smith
John Gilmore wrote: There is thus no excuse for any use of an STCK instruction in NEW code. Old code is a different matter, If it is judged that there is NO possibility that it will still be in use in 2042, STCKs in it need not be replaced. Otherwise they should be. How about code that's

Re: TOD clock format

2012-01-31 Thread Phil Smith
Barry Merrill wrote: 6. I plan to be here to observe the wrap; I'll be 101+six months in Sept 2042. And MXG will still be running, I'm sure! What version will it be by then? Will the operating system still be called z/OS? If so, will it be Version 1 Release 43? What will the hardware be known

TOD clock format

2012-01-30 Thread Phil Smith
It's been a while since I did an STCK and looked at the results. ISTR that the last five or so nibbles were always zero; now they aren't. I assume that's added granularity to reduce repeated timestamps from STCKs close together (on the same processor), though still perhaps not enough to avoid

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-17 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Finch wrote: From info we have gotten, I believe that the z800 does not have it's CCF (Feature code 800) enabled (configured). CCFs were no cost features but you could order a z800 without it. Ah. So it's (sort of) like CPACF. I made the assumption that CCF meant the 4764 or whatever it

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
really sound to me like z/OS is the problem here. -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com (703) 476-4511 (home office) (703) 568-6662 (cell

Re: Determining MSUs

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
Ed Finnell wrote: I've used Theirry Falissard's MIPS thingy for about 15 yrs. Hm. That seems wrong for current machines, based on the fact that it reports 171 MSUs on a 1631-MSU box (the comment about I did not verify whether it is still OK for recent 9672 machines... is also a bit worrisome!).

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
David Booher wrote: From other posts I've seen on the list, the initialization of the CKDS and PKDS all fail with a return code of 12. My question is: Can you still run CSF with empty datasets and no crypto processor and still expect it to offer any SSL ciphers? Yes. SSL has nothing to do

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
Steve Finch wrote: Without a CCF (cryptographic processor) on a z800, you are very limited in what ciphers you can use. You can use 'NULL-SHA' and 'NULL-MD5' ciphers. That's it. Your client must be configured to accept and use one of these two ciphers to connect with DB2's Secure SSL on your z800.

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

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
OK, trivia time: What IBM device had *13* PF keys? -- ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
David Booher clipped some incomprehensible errors from SSL: Wow. Opaque and obdurate. However: this usually indicates a cipher suite could not be negotiated between the client and the server during the cipher suite exchange phase in the SSL handshake suggests to me that it isn't that the client

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Smith
Tom Simons wrote, in part: ICSF will work on the z800 without crypto hardware. Right, but that wasn't his question. He's asking about specific SSL/TLS algorithms. -- ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Determining MSUs

2011-12-14 Thread Phil Smith
How about this as a QD solution: /* REXX */ rct = c2d(storage(d2x(c2d(storage(d2x(c2d(storage(10, 4))+604), , 4))+228), 4)) say 'CEC MSU capacity='c2d(storage(d2x(rct+32), 4))';' , 'defined LPAR MSU capacity='c2d(storage(d2x(rct+28), 4)) -- ...phsiii

Determining MSUs

2011-12-09 Thread Phil Smith
So if a customer doesn't know the MSU capacity of an LPAR, what's the easiest way to find out? I know, their billing folks SHOULD know, but they're apparently on a different planet. Some RMF report? -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc

Re: Inline Rexx in JCL?

2011-11-18 Thread Phil Smith III
So it appears the app that's calling the EXEC as an exit is doing some magic of its own, I guess, since it works without the IRXJCL hack. And I didn't post the example because it's called as an exit and thus it didn't seem relevant (although if I had, y'all would have surely seen the dumb error

Inline Rexx in JCL?

2011-11-17 Thread Phil Smith III
Anyone ever gotten inline Rexx to work from JCL? I have a program that invokes a Rexx exit, but the exit is so simple that it seems like I should be able to just do a //SYSEXEC DD * and go from there. Alas, I get: IRX0110I The REXX exec cannot be interpreted. IRX0112I The REXX exec cannot be

Re: Inline Rexx in JCL?

2011-11-17 Thread Phil Smith III
as a test that I realized my error. (And no, Rexx doesn't have to be PO.) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 1:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Inline Rexx in JCL? Anyone ever

Re: Inline Rexx in JCL?

2011-11-17 Thread Phil Smith III
And you don't even need the leading /* REXX */ on the Rexx, which avoids some hassles with EOD. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: Data encrypt

2011-11-15 Thread Phil Smith
://www.voltage.com/zprotect will let you register. -- .phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.com (703) 476-4511 (home office) (703) 568-6662 (cell) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Data encrypt

2011-11-15 Thread Phil Smith
providers are .com and so is USPS!), and this is one clear example. -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: How to enable Storage Protection Override?

2011-11-08 Thread Phil Smith III
Pearce, Colin E wrote: UserKey 9 can write into CICSKey 8? that cannot be correct as all DFH modules would be up for overwriting. Where would integrity be? Key 9 is the Open key, in that any transaction running in any other key can write into Key 9, but NOT the other way round. S0C4 will

Re: How to enable Storage Protection Override?

2011-11-07 Thread Phil Smith III
We solved this. Our calling sequence is somewhat complex: our processing is going to block, so we need to get off the QR. So we have a two-level call: the user transaction calls our first-level program, which does an EXEC CICS LINK to the second-level program, which is defined OPENAPI and

How to enable Storage Protection Override?

2011-11-04 Thread Phil Smith III
CICS uses a hardware facility called Storage Protection Override to allow key 9 to store into key 8 (but not vice versa). This is enabled on CICS startup via a parm in the SIT. How can an APF-authorized program enable this same facility for itself? Can't seem to find a macro or equivalent.

Re: How to enable Storage Protection Override?

2011-11-04 Thread Phil Smith III
I wrote: CICS uses a hardware facility called Storage Protection Override to allow key 9 to store into key 8 (but not vice versa). This is enabled on CICS startup via a parm in the SIT. How can an APF-authorized program enable this same facility for itself? Can't seem to find a macro or

Windows on zBX

2011-10-12 Thread Phil Smith
As expected: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=cainfotype=anappname=iSourcesupplier=897letternum=ENUS111-167 -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com

Re: CMS load module format

2011-10-01 Thread Phil Smith
Ed Finnell wrote: These things take on religious zeal pretty quickly. I was having a pretty good tussle with the VMer's in our shop about ISPF under VM and they wrote some real poison pen memos to the PHB's. Guess the silencer was we did a little tour and they were all using Qedit or what ever

Re: CMS load module format

2011-09-30 Thread Phil Smith III
Farley, Peter wrote, in part: There is no version of XEDIT available in any form (or wasn't the last time I checked, anyway).  XEDIT only came with VM/SP2 and up, I believe. VM/SP Release 1. Not that it matters, but the gods of historical correctness must be appeased! ...phsiii

Re: CMS load module format

2011-09-30 Thread Phil Smith III
Stephen Powell wrote: Yes, I remember that.  But there was a full-screen 3270 editor similar to XEDIT available with VM/370 release 6 called EDGAR.  I think it was an add-on product.  I don't think it was part of VM/370. Yes, Edgar was an add-on product. It was somewhat similar to XEDIT in a lot

Re: Analytics in prime time!

2011-09-26 Thread Phil Smith III
Tom Conley wrote: Supposably the 9-digit number out the backdoor was the safeguard against discovering the backdoor.  I'm just glad that the way he found the data was real, and not Jacob whispering into Linus's ear.  It is a cool use of analytics, and a verification that just because I'm paranoid

Re: IBM websites

2011-09-26 Thread Phil Smith III
Carl Edgren wrote about a certificate error on IBMLink and busted links on IBM sites. A colleague was once at a meeting of fairly high-level IBMers, one of whom owned IBMLink. She asked, So, what do you think of the IBMLink interface? and he said, It looks like each screen was designed by a

Analytics in prime time!

2011-09-24 Thread Phil Smith III
The new series Person of Interest revolves around a shadowy tech geek who recruits an ex-CIA, ex-Army Ranger to solve crimes. See, the geek built the machine for the US government to perform analytics against all the surveillance data being collected. Only problem is, the machine *also* finds

Re: FORCE ARM

2011-09-23 Thread Phil Smith III
So I'm confused. We don't really know what it stands for? .phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

FORCE ARM

2011-09-22 Thread Phil Smith
Ok, I'll probably be sorry I opened this can of worms, but: WTF does ARM stand for on FORCE ARM? If you're wrong, they'll cut one off? Short for strongARM? ARMy grade? alARM? All Right Mom? Did some searching, no joy. No fair Googling *including the string that you already know it stands for*

Re: FORCE ARM

2011-09-22 Thread Phil Smith
Thanks. That wasn't nearly as interesting as I'd hoped, but at least my curiosity got satisfied! -- ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the

Re: Mainframe article

2011-09-14 Thread Phil Smith
, or certainly not running any more. So it included 9370s and P/390s and the like, and even IBM didn't think it was very real at the time. I consistently hear numbers in the 5K-10K range, but everyone's guessing (and most of 'em admit it). -- .phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.com Voltage Security

Re: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-28 Thread Phil Smith III
DanD wrote: I hope you weren't intentionally insulting a nation during your pissing match. Oh, no, my humblest apologies -- of course you might quite reasonably read it that way. I grew up there, so was thinking of color/colour center/centre etc., not intending to insult anyone! ...phsiii

Re: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-28 Thread Phil Smith III
Stephen Y Odo wrote: I know I'm coming in kinda late to this ... my apologies ... i don't read this list as often as I'd like ... but ... I thought the OS was still MVS ... and z/OS was a package that included MVS and a bunch of components (DFSMShsm, RACF, etc.) ... Now that's an interesting

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-27 Thread Phil Smith III
Ted MacNeil wrote: I never said that! Hence, nonsequitor! Or worse: strawman. OK, so what were you suggesting? That's how I interpreted what you said. I asked you to elucidate; I never said that really doesn't do so. I'd really *like* to grok what you're saying. As I noted, what I wrote was meant

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-27 Thread Phil Smith III
Ted MacNeil wrote: I said MVS. You said Model-T vs Taurus as a misrepresentation of what I said: what's the difference? If that's not a strawman, what is it? It's an analogy. Read up on it. Take a basic logic course. PS: a few others have pointed out that MVS is still an essential component of

Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-26 Thread Phil Smith III
Anyone read this? I have PC kids I work with who are likely to read it, wonder what others thought. I read the pages Amazon would let me preview, and it didn't seem horrible, though it loses points for being published in 2008 and calling System z zSeries. But who knows, he may have been working on

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-26 Thread Phil Smith III
Ted MacNeil wrote, re zSeries vs. System z: What's wrong with that? I still call it MVS! Ok, but it's not MVS any more. Do you drive a Model T? Is your desktop a 486? Do you run Windows 95? Sure, it's a nit. I freely admit that. But System z implies functionality that zSeries does not,

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-26 Thread Phil Smith III
Ted MacNeil wrote: Look at a lot of the manuals from IBM! MVS is in the title. OK, that intrigued me, so I looked at the 1.12 z/OS library (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/r12pdf/). Out of 384 books, 73 have MVS in the title. However, of those, only 11 don't *also* have z/OS --

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-26 Thread Phil Smith III
Steve Gentry wrote: Phil, what's your concern with it being called a zSeries?   I thought IBM labeled it as such. The z900, z800, z990, and z890 were zSeries machines. With the advent of the z9 in 2005, the zSeries name was retired, and the z9, z10, and zEnterprise are System z machines instead.

Re : Winblows on z .... FYI

2011-08-24 Thread Phil Smith
Shmuel Metz wrote: RDP? Why not X? Presumably because requiring each client to add an X server was seen as higher impact than asking them to use something built into Windows... -- ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Winblows on z .... FYI

2011-08-22 Thread Phil Smith III
The most current information that's come out of Birmingham is in this article: www.mainframezone.com/it-management/windows-and-other-x86-operating-systems- on-system-z Since then Mantissa have gone dark, not sure what's up. -- .phsiii

Last card reader?

2011-08-16 Thread Phil Smith
Wondering when the last card reader died. We had one at University of Waterloo until 1984 or 1985; we had a full professor who insisted on using cards. We finally told him he'd have to pay the maintenance-that convinced him (or, more likely, his Dean) that it was time to use terminals. What's

Re: Prelinking problem

2011-07-28 Thread Phil Smith
out of SMP/E from a ++MOD? ...phsiii -Original Message- Date:Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:16:49 -0400 From:Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net Subject: Re: Prelinking problem On 27 July 2011 07:22, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: We've been going around in circles with the prelinker. Let me

Re: Prelinking problem

2011-07-28 Thread Phil Smith
I just got a note from an IBMer to whom I had also written; the short version of his answer is No can do. So we may have to just ship the .OBJECT library as well. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Prelinking problem

2011-07-27 Thread Phil Smith
We've been going around in circles with the prelinker. Let me start by stating that my understand of all of this is weak, so while I'll make assertions below, each should be logically prefixed with I think... or My current understanding is IOW, no flames if they're wrong please! We have an

Re: DD mystery

2011-06-29 Thread Phil Smith III
Chuck Arney wrote: It's okay Phil. You're a VM guy at heart, learning his way around on z/OS. We understand. The problem is that most of the people on this list have been maintaining large MVS systems for a long time, and they believe that people asking questions here have the same experience.

DD mystery

2011-06-28 Thread Phil Smith III
I have a Started Task with the following output DDs: //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //VSHDEBUG DD SYSOUT=* The task also dynamically allocates a log file as SYS1. When it's running, I can see the output in all four of them. When I end the Started Task, the

Re: DD mystery

2011-06-28 Thread Phil Smith III
Walt Farrell wrote: Actually, the OP stated nothing about the other DDs; he addressed only VSHDEBUG and SYS0001, so we don't know what happened (if anything) to the others. Logically we know they must be gone, too, and logically we know that SYS0001 was allocated with a different sysout class

Re: SDSF question

2011-06-27 Thread Phil Smith III
I asked: When I'm looking at a queue in SDSF, what does it mean when a job output is highlighted? It seems almost random, but I'm sure it isn't! Roger Bolan replied: I see this on output queues when the job is selected for an active printer. Is that what you mean? And Gibney, Dave added:

SDSF question

2011-06-25 Thread Phil Smith III
When I'm looking at a queue in SDSF, what does it mean when a job output is highlighted? It seems almost random, but I'm sure it isn't! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: SYSOUT class of a data set

2011-05-21 Thread Phil Smith
be), but to say THANK YOU (unequivocally but quite personally) to the various folks who posted so helpfully. It's one of my guys who needed this; he'll muck with it next week. Cheers, -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.com (703) 476-4511 (home office) (703) 568

SYSOUT class of a data set

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Smith
From a program, how can I find out the SYSOUT class of a JES-owned data set? For example, given: SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=x How can a program find out what x is? -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.commailto:p...@voltage.com Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.comhttp://www.voltage.com (703) 476

Re: What does issue mean? (Was: SDSF issue)

2011-05-19 Thread Phil Smith
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: Webster's on a dictionary has no significance - it's just an attempt to cadge some legitimacy by invoking Noah Webster's name). Try AHD or OED (both of which do support the usage). Dictionaries do NOT support usage! They

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