Neal Eckhardt wrote:
use NFS from Windows or Novell? There do not appear to be MVSLOGIN,etc
programs supplied.
There are sample program sources (don't quite remember where I found them
but they are in some PDS that comes with the system) for mvslogin e.a. I
compiled them on SUSE linux for a
Have a look at the zSeries Conference held in Innsbruck last year, there are
a couple of presentations that I found very useful. If you cannot find let
them let me know and I can send them to you.
Regards
Gerard
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John,
Off the top of my head, I think the reason that the
offline volumes are being requested for mount is due to RACF
(Security) processing.
Because the source data set catalog is available
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills
I just posted the NETRC question but perhaps I should instead
ask the fundamental underlying question. Here is what I want to do.
I want to have a program ABC running in a normal batch job
that
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson
We have used SMB/Samba for quite some time to access MVS
files from Windows. Yes, I'm the one who set it up. I may
actually be the only regular user, and since
RECEIVEFROMNETWORK replaced our older
An additional consideration is do individual users have non-expiring
passwords on the remote system? If the password expires, then NETRC or
any other automatic procedure becomes more difficult.
Craig
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Chase, John wrote:
Does SMP/E *require* the presence of crypto *hardware* to use
RECEIVEFROMNETWORK? or can it be used with only the software crypto support
(GSK library)?
The latest SMP/E, 3.4, does not require the use of ICSF or the
hardware. It will use a Java class instead.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:34 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: NETRC and security -- am I missing something?
a site-wide one that is pointed to by the
On 1/5/2006 8:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FYI - the doc says the default module returns a 4.
The default module does return a 4. And it lives in SYS1.LINKLIB (where
RACF won't use it), not SYS1.LPALIB. If you have one in SYS1.LPALIB you
put it there yourself.
I recommend that you
On 1/4/2006 5:43 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
I just posted the NETRC question but perhaps I should instead ask the
fundamental underlying question. Here is what I want to do.
I want to have a program ABC running in a normal batch job that might be
submitted by any of a large number of TSO users
In a recent note, Jan MOEYERSONS said:
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 04:52:32 -0600
There are sample program sources (don't quite remember where I found them
but they are in some PDS that comes with the system) for mvslogin e.a. I
compiled them on SUSE linux for a client and it works quite
If you can get the VVDS entries back, then a simple DEFINE RECATALOG
should work. Otherwise, do you have any tools that can backup a VSAM
data component using EXCP? If so, you could back up the data, scratch
the data/index from the current volume, define the cluster, then reload
from your
Walt Farrell said:
|
| The z/OS FTP server and client both support authentication
| via digital
| certificates (client authentication functions of SSL or
| TLS). I suggest
| you use that approach.
|
| Walt Farrell, CISSP
| z/OS Security Design, IBM
|
Hi
In a recent note, John Eells said:
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:43:03 -0500
SMP/E has been enhanced to use an alternate method to calculate
SHA-1 hash values if ICSF is not available for use. Although ICSF
is the preferred method, SMP/E will no longer require it for use
by the GIMZIP
OK, so the name's confusing. But it's V1.8
of the toolkit for
z/OS, not the z/OS R8 toolkit.
It's not really an OK, so IBM was
attempting to keep everything with the same
release name/number to reduce confusion.
I think this is an example where that failed.
We have enough issues on
In a message dated 1/4/2006 10:54:01 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not a VSAM expert and so looking for help here.Thanks.
Bruce will probably kick in shortly. Think the parm is VRECAT on
the restore. Lacking that I'd use FDRCOPY to MOVE it again and
do the
On 1/5/2006 9:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re: z/OS NFS Server. Can it be used in z/OS clients?
BTW, has anyone succeeded in porting this MVSLOGIN to z/OS Unix itself?
I've tried with no success. My motives are partly practical: I'd be
delighted to be able to mount a collection of MVS data
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:26:05 -0500, Walt Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would you need to use MVSLOGIN to do this? As you mention below,
you're already serving data to z/OS clients, which would seem to
indicate that you don't need MVSLOGIN in the z/OS environment.
I had
There *was* more to the story The PE list in OA14708 today includes
all affected PTFs and the AI information (which was only on *some* of the
PTFs) has now been deleted. In addition, under 'additional symptoms'
OA14708 describes the aspect of the problem which was specific to HDS
hardware.
Talked with IBM. No there is no way to filter certain CHPID out of Call
Home.
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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 2:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re:
A DS6800 is to be used in 2105 mode.
It is planned for the future to change it to native 1750 mode.
Question: Does the change involve all data on volumes to be deleted ?
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Lodz, Poland
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On 1/5/2006 11:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please explain. The RACF sysprog guide says to put it in LPALIB so
RACF finds it during initialization.
When RACF first implemented DES, and created ICHDEX01, it used to ship a
default ICHDEX01 in LPALIB so that installations would by default
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 14:19:03 -0600, John McKown wrote:
This is more curiousity that much else, but I'm wondering if there is a
PC version of TRSMAIN. Preferable a Linux one. Why? Because we are
always a bit short of CPU on the zSeries. Also, I'm just curious.
In the list archives there is a post
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:42:33AM -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
I don't know of any supported terse programs for the PC.
Is the terse algorithm documented anywhere?
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Jay Maynard, K5ZChttp://www.conmicro.cx
http://www.hercules-390.org http://www.tronguy.net
I'm still confused ... here's my interpretation, based on previous postings,
IBM manuals, and some googling:
CPU% is time spent on behalf of the address space (R791TCPU)
It includes all the TCB (ASCBEJST) and SRB (ASCBSRBT) time for the address
space's own internal work
It also includes any
I'm still confused ... here's my interpretation, based on previous
postings, IBM manuals, and some googling:
CPU% is time spent on behalf of the address space (R791TCPU)
It includes all the TCB (ASCBEJST) and SRB (ASCBSRBT) time
for the address space's own internal
Thanks. This is sufficient. It's perfect. I don't need to be able to do it;
I just need to be able to point a RACF expert in the right direction.
Charles
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Thanks. Let me echo Bob Lester's request for more pointers if possible and
ALSO ask:
I ran across the facility called PassTicket. Wouldn't this do the job? The
job being letting a program running for user XYZ log on to FTP on a
different machine using the same userid (and assuming synchronized
Dennis McCarthy wrote:
I'm running z/OS 1.4, with SMP/E 34.04 and Java SDK 1.4 at the Service
Refresh level of SR3 (PTF UQ07860). I am attempting to use the Internet
Service Retrieval with absolutely no success.
Does *anyone* have this working under z/OS 1.7? I tried it and it failed:
|
In a recent note, Jay Maynard said:
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:04:49 -0600
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:42:33AM -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
I don't know of any supported terse programs for the PC.
Is the terse algorithm documented anywhere?
It's more than a mere algorithm in the
FDR can backup an uncataloged VSAM cluster, and having a VVDS wth the
wrong volser does not bother us (unless there is more than one VVDS in
the VTOC).
So try this job to copy the cluster to a new volume. It will allocate
it and catalog it on the new volume.
//COPY EXEC
Thank you Don. I saw the size in the PD, but wasn't sure if it was for
the HFS or the AIXMHFS file.
Being a contractor and not having access to normal support channels,
not even sure what they are anymore, I opted to use the list, since its
accessibility is not limited and the wealth of
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:18:09AM -0700, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
In a recent note, Jay Maynard said:
Sounds like a reinvention of XMIT with compression added.
Will TRSMAIN run on MVS 3.8?
I doubt it, since it was written in an era of AMODE 31...but I might have to
try it, if I can figure out a
I feel obligated to point out, though, that the object code contains the
following:
TRSTRSMAIN-409,05/20/97,14.22Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
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Sent: Thursday, January 05,
I'm trying to add a volume to a storage group and I can't seem to get this to
work. It seems that it can't find the proper storage group (construct???).
Below I've include a paste in of what I see in the panels. Any help will be
greatly appreciate. This is now driving me crazy. Thanks.
Sorry it's the SCDS I'm trying to get to.
Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to add a volume to a
storage group and I can't seem to get this to work. It seems that it can't find
the proper storage group (construct???).
Below I've include a paste in of what I see in the panels.
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Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:32 PM
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I'm trying to add a volume to a storage group and I can't
seem to get this to
Thank you for confirming my observations, Mark . . . but
. . . since the previous postings I found were several years old, gotta wonder
why this is still in the SDSF help text . . .
CPU%Percent of CPU time used on behalf of this
address space during the
Chase, John wrote:
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I feel obligated to point out, though, that the object code
contains the following:
TRSTRSMAIN-409,05/20/97,14.22Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
Long time since I
Perform a logical backup of the base cluster and ensure that sphere is
included. When you restore the dataset ensure that sphere is included. It
should work. I assume that you are using DFDSS.
Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All,
We have need to copy an extended-format VSAM sphere
Andy,
Have this sites :
http://www.wynsoft.co.uk/mainframe/assembler.htm
http://www.wynsoft.co.uk/mainframe/Assembler/hints-and-tips.htm
http://www.sysprog.net/hlasm.html
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mflll/cs310/head.html
http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/mvsinstasm.html
I'm installing my first zOS system. zOS 1.7.
I have a very old OS390 2.8 system, installed by a previous person, that I
will eventually migrate the users from.
My question concerns zFS - the old system has HFS and other than the
pre-req of having it for USS it serves no other purpose. Is there
Thanks John,
Did it...got it.
Thanks again.
McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Subject: Noob question regarding zFS
I'm installing my first zOS system. zOS 1.7.
I have a very old OS390
I have some IBM 3590 cartridges, J K, which I need to ensure all the data
is off of them. Does any know of any utility which will write binary zeros
all down the cartridge until the end. I still have an old program from the
US Air Force which would go down to the end two tapemarks, skip over them
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/03/2006
at 11:26 AM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Something builds it.
Are you sure about that? Have you seen an SIOT for a dynamically
allocated data set?
Jim Marshall wrote:
I have some IBM 3590 cartridges, J K, which I need to ensure all the data
is off of them. Does any know of any utility which will write binary zeros
all down the cartridge until the end. I still have an old program from the
US Air Force which would go down to the end two
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/03/2006
at 11:26 AM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Something builds it.
Are you sure about that? Have you seen an SIOT for a dynamically
allocated data set?
Oh -
In a message dated 1/5/2006 2:21:33 P.M. Central Standard Time,
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reason I would need or want to install zFS on the new system rather than
just sticking with HFS?
You'll still need HFS. z/FS is the z/ replacement for NFS. You might want to
install it just so
We're just starting to look into secure Tn3270 and are fighting our way
through the doc. Most IBM doc is RACF oriented ad we're an ACF2 shop.
And we're in mainfraim communication support group, not the security
group, so we don't understand all we're reading.
We're probably going to test using a
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snip
You'll still need HFS. z/FS is the z/ replacement for NFS.
McKown, John wrote:
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Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:25 PM
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Subject: Noob question regarding zFS
I'm installing my first zOS system. zOS 1.7.
I have a
In a recent note, Mark Thomen said:
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:27:01 -0800
Oh - and I forgot to mention: syntax checking is automatically enabled
beginning in HDZ11G0 (z/os 1.3), unless the installation disables it. So
no invalid data set names should get cataloged.
Will it
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:47:59 +0100, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
...
IMHO it's hard to prove law violation. For sure nobody would bother
himself about it.
It is publicly available. AFAIR you don't even need to logon to the
page. It's IBM page, not hacker/warez page. You probably clicked Agree
by
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:04:49 -0600, Jay Maynard wrote:
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:42:33AM -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
I don't know of any supported terse programs for the PC.
Is the terse algorithm documented anywhere?
I am not certain , but I think terse uses a modified Lempel-Ziv algorithm,
Ed Finnell wrote:
You'll still need HFS. z/FS is the z/ replacement for NFS. You might want to
install it just so you can keep receiving maintenace when PHB's decide it's
something required for the survival of the
Company.
Not true. zFS is the replacement for HFS, which has been
I have made my changes and validated them, all O.K.
I would now like to back up the current ACDS using the SETSMS command and I
see that this has never been done. I have to pre alocate the ACDS back up
dataset.
Should this just be a plain flat file or what should be the DSORG?
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:31:16 -0600, McKown, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
opinion type=personal
HFS, as best as I can tell, is still needed for your root filesystem.
In z/OS 1.7 that is no longer true. The root can be a zFS if you want.
If you're not really using UNIX, then you don't need
Mark Zelden wrote:
It is more reliable than HFS.
I think the jury is out on that one still. Until there is more usage
and acceptance, at this point I'm not sure how much I trust zFS so I
only have limited use (there have been problems but I think z/OS 1.7
made some RAS improvements). Not
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Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:12 PM
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Subject: SMS Question Backing up the Current ACDS
I have made my changes and validated them, all O.K.
As I keep saying, the problem is that the customer does not want to do that,
and arguing with the customer is not sales-enhancing.
Charles
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Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:23
Charles,
I am curious what security disaster exists with each of the users that
will use this process having a userid.NETRC file with a UACC(NONE) be? If
it is the OPERATIONS ATTRIBUTE users being able to access the files that
is hte problem, if they are all in a single group (or limited groups)
I'm not a security guy. I have no idea what the exposures are. I suspect
they are between minimal and none. The prospect has simply stated that
generic userids are unacceptable and that the remote process must be run
under the ID of the originator. That's what I am responding to. I am not in
the
Charles,
Thank you for your reply. It sounds like the individual NETRC files may
not really be a security disaster but more of a maintenance disaster. I
would agree, it is very inconvenient to require each user to update the
NETRC file each time the password(s) on the remote system(s) change.
At SHARE, I heard from a zFS presentation that one major RAS improvement in
zFS for z/OS 1.7 was the addition of an End of Memory resource manager
routine to protect zFS resources. The MVS-internals types on this list can
perhaps expound upon the RAS value of zFS having (in z/OS 1.7) an EOM
On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:21 PM, R.S. wrote:
SNIP
1. Do not degauss the tapes, unless you want to destroy them.
3590's have servo tracks tah would be destroyed.
2. 3590 drive can erase the tape without getting any datastream
from host. This feature is exploited by tape
Ed Gould wrote:
I always used IEBDG to create the binary zero blocks of data. I don't
have the control cards handy but its a quick 5 minute read and 1
minute in ISPF.
DSDOUTPUT=(ddname)
FD NAME=DATA,FILL=X'FF',LENGTH=blksize
CREATE NAME=(DATA),QUANTITY=
Abend D37 is
I've just checked the z/OS 1.7 UNIX System Services manual, and it still
says the root file system must be an HFS (Chapter 7, fourth paragraph,
second bullet under heading Rules). Now I'm questioning my memory
Brian
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:10:58 -0600, Brian Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246580.pdf
:
Second Edition (April 2005)
This edition applies to Version 1 Release 6 of z/OS (5694-A01) and to all
subsequent releases and
modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
chapter 3(migrating to zFS), section 2
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Starting with version SHOWzOS 712 introduced a display for the CDR via IOSCDR.
Unfortunally the IOSCDR service even with READ=NOIO, in the way SHOWzOS use
it,
can cause performance problems and slow down the display at all.
I'm working on a fix to provide a switsch to display/enable this
We just did this last month. Both ACF2 6.5 and 8.0 under
z/OS 1.6.
First, download the ACF2 Cookbook PDF from the CAI support site.
Chapter 4 is all about cert handling in ACF2 including
RACDCERT to ACF2 translation and some good examples.
Don't know about self-signed as we used our Verisign
Odd coincidence. Back on 30 January 2004 Microsoft posted a $250,000 reward
for the author of
the MyDoom worm, and on the same day you asked here about possible z/OS
vulnerabilities:
The advantage of using the ERASE CCW command directly (which is what the
CA-1, CA-Dynam/TLMS, DFSMSrmm utilities all do) and something like IEBDG is
the number of CCW's sent down the channel. With the ERASE CCW command, one
CCW is sent and the device just humms along for 30-45 minutes doing its
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