Way back when we first implemented stored procedures under WLM the first
problem that surfaced came from
Top Secret. The user that invoked the SP was stopped via a security
violation. Top Secret issued a 1C-06,
no access to the facility called STC. Took us a while to figure it out
but we saw
Hey, that's great news! I used to run a forklift...
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From personal experience I can state that ICETOOL is cool. :-)
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Don Leahy
or set up a symbol:
symnames dd *
thewholedarnrecord,1,80,ch
/*
then the control statement would be:
SELECT FROM(T1) TO(OUT) ON(thewholedarnrecord) NODUPS USING(CTL3)
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Dontcha love it when the platform stays and the management leaves. :-)
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Thanks,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Edward Jaffe
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 2:55 PM
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Subject: Re: Re-hosting IMB-MAIN (was RE: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay)
tony babonas wrote:
Why don't we
Why don't we take up a collection to buy an old CPU, zOS and all else
needed, then host IBM-MAIN, RACF-L, CICS-L, VM-L, DB2-L etc etc.
Manpower to support it shouldn't be an issue.
Possible? Would be a great proof of concept. How much would each of us
have to pony up?
Imagine the
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You could save some money by running SLES10 and the linux version of
LSoft's LISTSERV product.
No z/OS or z/VM necessary.
/Tom Kern
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Why
Let's start marking our subject lines On Topic in order to identify the
few posts that
actually relate to IBM mainframe software and topics.
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FTP a temp file...let the OS do the work.
Can I pass a true temporary file name within the FTP command?
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For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive
FTP a temp file...let the OS do the work.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Howard Brazee
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:05 PM
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On 11 Jan 2008 12:44:25
are you a Top Secet shop? If so, check the parameters for the facility
involved, specifically
SIGN(M) or SIGN(S)
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Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:51 PM
To:
But why solve the problems? Pre-validation in this
sense could be renamed let's try a few things to see
if we're close to guessing the password We currently
have this issue in our shop. Us security types look at
it as working as designed.
Three strikes and you're out exists for a reason. In
What a terrible thing to say about one's wife !
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:40 PM
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forgive the
I once installed a product called TASA from INFOSECINC.
The package is downloadable from the company's web site
as a binary file. It then is TSO RECEIVED into a
samplib. The supplied install
jobs do all the SMPE stuff.
Seems the best of both worlds.
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Whatever their site is I'm deeply envious of how
comprehensive its contents are. The design must be
such that:
1. It's readily update-able.
2. It's readily search-able, in that a reference to the
1978 version of the ABC Frammis get quoted
rather instantly.
3. Seeming non-redundant, though I
What about MAIL/NOMAIL etc, the selections at the
bottom of the screen? Controllable?
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Brian
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Hmmm, peak season coming up and they bag their veteran
sysprog.
What else did they do to prepare, get rid of all their
spare shopping bags?
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Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:45 PM
The last time I least expected it was August 10,
1988, 3:20 P.M. CST. Funny how sharp my memory is
about these things. The next 6 events of this type
were expected, mostly after a longer interval than I
would have expected. I've even lost a few wagers to my
wife (i.e. gee honey, how long do
long term commitment to a new job !!! Don't make me
laugh. When was any employer willing to make a long
term commitment, and in return expect the same from you
?
Seriously, this question is off limits to employers,
there have been lawsuits over things similar, asked at
interviews. Remember
teleworking here in the chicago area is becoming
commonplace. our usual relationships are with branches
and contractors overseas. the cubicle and face time is
becoming the 8 track tape of technology.
our company is short of office space...
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Gee I wonder, hypothetically: if all companies did
allow teleworking for sysprogs, would there be a
shortage, or excess for that matter? Tele-freedom
would certainly smooth out the geographic supply/demand
imbalance (and I'm speculating that imbalance does
exist, without knowing).
Yep, we did it.
Pros: none, other than management fantasy of lower
salaried people replacing higher salaried people.
Cons: Murphy's Law in every imagineable form.
Children should not use power tools, only experienced
adults. You will not have to wait for the long run
for this to haunt
I wish I had all you guys' problems. We have no one
here who understands basic JCL, let alone any compiled
or interpreted language. I'd gladly giv e away
everything I have developed over the years, even to the
point of allocating a PDS(E) for the borrower,
populating it, showing them
I hasten to clarify, we restrict program usage, in our
case SAS, by restricting the load library from which it
is executed, for example our permission was written as
follows:
TSS PER( SASPROF ) DSN( HLQ.SAS.LOADLIB ) ACCESS(FETCH)
SYSID(ESYS)
Since our search algorithm is merge, all merge users
we also restrict SAS to 1 lpar for contractual
reasons. we have CA/Top Secret so we can restrict
programs and datasets by SMF IDs.
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Whitteridge
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:18 PM
this brings back a faint memory, though I can assure
you our problem symptoms were identical. we went
through the entire diagnosis, as did you, exactly in
the same sequence. this occurred when we installed zos
1.4 several years ago.
the solution (here's the sketchy part) involved the
location
fails??
Regs
FA
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To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie: Concatenate sysprint from
precompiler, compiler and linkeditor in a single PDSE
member
easy
Yes, Giovanni, my astute colleague, very, very
carefully indeed. I use this exact example in our
security standards to solidify the concept that users
should not have more access than they need to do their
job..
Once, during a disaster recovery test, I ran this exact
job stream at the end of
easy, allocate a sysprint dataset for each step,
writing output as dsn=sysprin1, sysprin2,
sysprin3 respectively. then add a step:
// set member=anyname
//step2 exec pgm=sort
//sortin dd dsn=sysprin1,disp=old
dd dsn=sysprin2,disp=old
dd dsn=sysprin3,disp=old
//sortout dd
The actual grunt work of creating commands is trivial, i.e.
//sortin dd dsn=any.file.containing.dataset.hlqs,disp=shr
//sortout dd dsn=any.file.that.will.be.executed.commands,disp=(new,..)
//sysin dd *
sort fields=copy
outrec fields=(c' add command syntax',
01,10,
Instead of using the originating user, use a special ID
for the batch process. Then permit a surrogat
profile(RACF) or permit the ACID(Top Secret) to the
large number of TSO users who need to run this job.
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We do this sort of thing all the time, using XCOM, a CA product that does
FTP-like things. Here's the sequence of events:
1. JOB-A on LPAR-A runs and does:
a. iefbr14 to delete a dataset-a that will receive output from LPAR-B.
b. sends JOB-B to LPAR-B.
2. JOB-B runs on LPAR-B and does:
And as easy as Dave says (and I can vouch for having done so for several
companies) it can be done gradually. I once did a UADS phaseout one
department at a time, without the users being inconvenienced or even
realizing it was happening. I've also never, repeat never, kept any
emergency IDs in
All you really need do is to write the UADS dataset to a file, parse the
output and create the appropriate RACF commands. Once you visualize the
UADS content, reverse engineering them into RACF commands is easy. I've
used DF/SORT for this sort of thing, regardless of the ESM present.
tb
DF/SORT, a plethora of logic. See SPLICE for starters. FY's URL is
plentiful in the archives.
FWIW, we've replaces lots of simpleminded COBOL/PL1/REXX/other HL languages
code with IBM's DF/SORT.
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Also check the ALLDUPS in the sort parms URL. A favorite for security
folks..
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From: tony babonas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 3:03 PM
To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List'
Subject: RE: Finding matched records
DF/SORT, a plethora
Nope, not exactly. Count me in. In the late 70s we ran an election
tabulation program using CB on a 25?? reader. The card had punches in
almost every position. Years before the hanging chads.
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- to split by delimiters
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There's a crude way to do this by aligning the data in a series of
temp files, i.e.
OUTREC OUTFIL=OUT1,
INCLUDE=(8,3,CH,EQ,C'99~'), WHEN COL 8
.
tb
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Frank Yaeger
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 7:12 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SORT help - to split by delimiters
Tony Babonas wrote:
Nah, Yaeger is always one step ahead
There's a crude way to do this by aligning the data in a series of temp
files, i.e.
OUTREC OUTFIL=OUT1,
INCLUDE=(8,3,CH,EQ,C'99~'), WHEN COL 8 IS THE DESIRED 99~
OUTREC=(11,5) numeric data following the ~
repeat this block of lines for every
Colleagues, this has been one of the most enjoyable threads I have ever read
in my 5 years of lurking. It sounds like it's not done yet so after saying
my minimal piece I'll shut up and continue to lurk in enjoyment. For the
record, here's the attributes I've found so appealing:
1. 99.9 %
This is attributable to me, for the record.
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Not true, I've been in 3 HALON dumps back in the days it was THE method for
computer room FS. One must exit quickly as it will make you short of breath
at high enough concentrations since it displaces oxygen.
I can best describe the experience as running at 10,000 feet elevation.
I reiterate my YMMV caveat since I can only speak for the secfile demand
patterns of our shop. The numbers I cite have worked flawlessly for us
since '99 and hopefully are conceptually correct in other environments. In
other environments those same numbers may perform acceptably or give you
Oh my gosh, I thought we were the last company to convert from UADS to
external security (TSS last year). It's mystifying why anyone would
outvote you on this count. We were years and years overdue but we're
certainly not looking back.
I've done several of these conversions, each with the
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