Under the restrictions and assumptions I mentioned, I now think cURL for
z/OS is the best way to get the job done (via BPXBATCH probably). It looks
very clean, simple, and exactly on point.
I'm a big believer in the avoid needless coding principle, in homage to
Strunk White. Thus cURL has a lot
That may explain the menu structure of automatic call
directors, but it doesn't explain a human operator asking
whether I'm running DOS, OS/VS1 or OS/VS2 when I call in
a TSO issue :-(
Oh dear. Really?
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IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect
Based in Tokyo, Serving
Tony B. wrote:
Having had a couple of years of experience in our hybrid RACF/TSS sysplex I
can sum up the compatibility matrix.
Most things work, some things don't. The ones that don't, quit doing them.
I would say: migrate to one security product within the sysplex. Couple
of years is
It looks very cool! Nice find.
However, a lot of organizations don't want to open a TN3270(E) port, even
an SSL encrypted one, to the public Internet without some extra barrier. So
you might have to combine this MochaSoft client with one of those SecurID
key fob systems (or equivalent) to issue a
Edward Jaffe wrote:
Anyone tried this yet? Is it as slick as it looks?
http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_tn3270.htm
I can say for their product on other platforms. Product was poor and
support was insolent: they adviced me to use another product if I don't
like their (I wanted to solve some
If you want to check that the user has entered a 4-digit year,
you could code:
do while \datatype(year,'N') LENGTH(year) \= 4
SAY 'Invalid Date!!... enter year, using only 4 num digits'
pull year
end
You could but it would not work as intended. You need to use
the OR operator not
ICH408I USER(NITZ ) GROUP(SYS ) NAME(??? )
LOGON/JOB INITIATION - USER AT TERMINAL NVAS NOT RACF-DEFINED
ICH408I USER(+CONSOLE) GROUP(* ) NAME(??? )
MVS.DISPLAY.TIMEDATE CL(OPERCMDS)
This appears to have changed. For some reason, under 1.6 (when I originally
tested) there was a test if the
We do not have RMF Product neither BMC CMF Product. What could be the issue
?
JAcky
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Kayhan Tanriverir
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Check RMF is running?
Keep up the good work.
Saygilar / Regards
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:10:04 -0500, Mike Feeley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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So why can I route a command from one RACF LPAR to another RACF LPAR (in
the same sysplex with different RACF databases) when my userid is not
defined to the target RACF LPAR? RACF on the target LPAR does not contain
a
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:59:09 +0200, Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was going to say: I cannot. Well, I can do the route command, but it
will not get executed on the system in the sysplex where my userid is not
defined..
Turns out that this must have changed with some sort of definition
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:48:54 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Based on this, I'd guess that Top Secret uses a larger ENVR object
than RACF. Thus its buffer is large enough to support the smaller
RACF object but RACF does not allocate a larger enough buffer to
accept a Top
We have seen issues testing telnet connected emulators from various wireless
devices including Windows phones, Blackberrys, Iphones, tablet computers, PDAs,
and laptops. The main problem is that switching cells or mobile access points
drops the telnet connection and user session. It is ideal
I have had the same experience a couple of time.
The first was an application I inherited because I worked in assembly. It was
in COBOL and assembly. When I made the change to the assembly program and its
COBOL caller, I introduced the fourth level of COBOL. The maintenance structure
was setup
When I edit a file I keep getting the following even when I key in 'RECOVERY
ON'.
-Warning- The UNDO command is not available until you change
your edit profile using the command RECOVERY ON.
While in the edit menu I key in PROFILE and get the following:
=PROF SAMPJCL (FIXED
Hi Howard,
Before PF3 issue a save command and see if that will keep the recovery on.
Regards,
Herman Stocker
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Howard Rifkind
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 10:17 AM
To:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:58 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote:
Also, in the Ops note he had
125 Storing data set TTSMV14.JAVA.HFS(SDK)
550 TTSMV14.JAVA.HFS is a partitioned data set and no member was
specified on the STOR command.
Which is why the message about the PDS was produced.
In this
Howard Rifkind wrote:
When I edit a file I keep getting the following even when I key in 'RECOVERY
ON'.
-Warning- The UNDO command is not available until you change
your edit profile using the command RECOVERY ON.
While in the edit menu I key in PROFILE and get the following:
Hello all,
Has anyone else had an issue ordering SMP/e 3.5 on Shopz? When I tried placing
an order, I found that Shopz does not consider us licensed for SMP/e 3.5, and
says I must order a new license. Of course, I am used to having problems with
IBM's licensing and billing systems (which I
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:34:49 -0500, John McKown wrote:
Yes, but IIRC for DSNTYPE=HFS, DSORG=PO. ?!?! Thus the absurd
message.
I agree. This sort of thing convinces me that the HFS implementation is
layered on top of PDS-E support, somehow.
According to the classic notion of DSORG, PDSE
Scott Rowe wrote:
Hello all,
Has anyone else had an issue ordering SMP/e 3.5 on Shopz? When I tried
placing an order, I found that Shopz does not consider us licensed for SMP/e
3.5, and says I must order a new license. Of course, I am used to having
problems with IBM's licensing and
Thanks Steve...that did it.
Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/2008 10:36 AM
Howard Rifkind wrote:
When I edit a file I keep getting the following even when I key in 'RECOVERY
ON'.
-Warning- The UNDO command is not available until you change
your edit profile using the
A zFS is defined as a VSAM Linear Dataset. So basically VS. However, then
you need to use the formatter program to make it the zFS it needs to be.
Lizette
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:34:49 -0500, John McKown wrote:
Yes, but IIRC for DSNTYPE=HFS, DSORG=PO. ?!?! Thus the absurd
message.
I am looking at the output from RACF's IRRDBU00 utility. It unloads dates in
the format: -mm-dd (e.g. 2008-10-24) and times are formatted as hh:mm:ss
(e.g. 10:12:30). I don't see any way to process these formats in DFSORT.
What I hope to do is rewrite a number of rather simple SAS reports to
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:16:20 -0500, John McKown wrote:
I am looking at the output from RACF's IRRDBU00 utility. It unloads dates in
the format: -mm-dd (e.g. 2008-10-24) and times are formatted as hh:mm:ss
(e.g. 10:12:30). I don't see any way to process these formats in DFSORT.
Ah, the
Hopefully your management is taking a curious look at what SAS features are
being used and how it benefits the enterprise/organization. For example, I
cannot see DFSORT generating a PDF document on z/OS and publishing the
content directly to an HTML-formatted web page. In serious terms, Frank
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:40:40 -0500, Scott Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hopefully your management is taking a curious look at what SAS features are
being used and how it benefits the enterprise/organization. For example, I
cannot see DFSORT generating a PDF document on z/OS and publishing the
John,
You could write a simple REXX script that would calculate the desired
date value and plug that into the DFSORT control card to do a simple
character compare.
John McKown wrote:
I am looking at the output from RACF's IRRDBU00 utility. It unloads dates in
the format: -mm-dd (e.g.
John McKown wrote:
I am trying to figure out how to do this using ICETOOL.
This example will show you ids used BEFORE 2001/12/31
//SELECT EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
Okay, so consider that you may want to use SAS (and MXG) to determine who is
using SAS (various SMF record types for discovery)
SAS has an option to report JOB, DATE, TIME, PROC possibly STEP to SMF.
And, I believe MXG has a PDB step to gather that information, complete with a
mapping of PROCs
Use the DATE4 feature. I use DATE4-180 to check for passwords which are
too old.
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From: John McKown
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:16 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: DFSORT date question
I am looking at the output from RACF's IRRDBU00 utility. It unloads
dates
John McKown wrote on 10/24/2008 08:16:20 AM:
I am looking at the output from RACF's IRRDBU00 utility. It unloads dates
in
the format: -mm-dd (e.g. 2008-10-24) and times are formatted as
hh:mm:ss
(e.g. 10:12:30). I don't see any way to process these formats in DFSORT.
What I hope to do is
You'll have to find a way to change the date field dynamically if you want to
automate this job.
Or better:
//ULDFCNTL DD *
SORT FIELDS=(10,8,CH,A)
INCLUDE COND=(5,4,CH,EQ,C'0200',AND,
118,10,CH,GT,DATE1(-)-90)
This is DATE1 format
John McKown wrote:
SAS is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
SAS __is__ going away. So let it be written! So let it be DONE!
At last, some common sense! Even in SAS-L there are complaints about costs.
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
Barry Schwarz wrote on 10/24/2008 09:18:23 AM:
Use the DATE4 feature. I use DATE4-180 to check for passwords which are
too old.
I think you mean DATE1-180. DATE4 is supported, but DATE4-d is not.
DFSORT supports future (+r) and past (-r) date constants for DATE1,
DATE1(c), DATE1P, DATE2,
At last, some common sense! Even in SAS-L there are complaints about costs.
At the last site I worked at, I managed to justify SAS only because SAS
Institute intsituted sub-capacity licensing (finally).
So, we ran it on a 128 MIPS 890 LPAR, for 35% of the previous licence for the
same box.
-
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:25:41 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'll have to find a way to change the date field dynamically if you want to
automate this job.
Or better:
//ULDFCNTL DD *
SORT FIELDS=(10,8,CH,A)
INCLUDE COND=(5,4,CH,EQ,C'0200',AND,
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:42:16 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At last, some common sense! Even in SAS-L there are complaints about costs.
At the last site I worked at, I managed to justify SAS only because SAS
Institute intsituted sub-capacity licensing (finally).
So, we ran it on a
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
At the last site I worked at, I managed to justify SAS only because SAS
Institute intsituted sub-capacity licensing (finally).
When we were dropping SAS, I asked local SAS staff about sub-capacity
licensing. I got that 'deer eyes in the spotlight' expression.
They even
John McKown wrote:
So you created, basically, a SAS-only LPAR? Yuck! Possible, but not what I'd
call desirable. Taken to a logical extreme, that would mean that I would
create n LPARs of various MSU levels and then run each product in the LPAR
which most closely matched its needs.
A
So you created, basically, a SAS-only LPAR? Yuck! Possible, but not what I'd
call desirable. Taken to a logical extreme, that would mean that I would
create n LPARs of various MSU levels and then run each product in the LPAR
which most closely matched its needs.
Indirectly, that's what
When we were dropping SAS, I asked local SAS staff about sub-capacity
licensing. I got that 'deer eyes in the spotlight' expression.
It was introduced in North America (Canada US -- I don't know about Mexico)
in January 2006.
It made a round-filed business case feasible for us, at least.
-
If the OP's issue is I hear we're losing SAS and I really want it to help
with RACF reporting there are alternatives that are without incremental
cost.
It's possible to develop a complete reporting system based on IRRDBU00
output using DF/SORT, ICE, etc. It's not difficult programming (since I,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Rowe
Hello all,
Has anyone else had an issue ordering SMP/e 3.5 on Shopz? When I
tried
placing an order, I found that Shopz does not consider us licensed for
SMP/e 3.5, and says I must order a new license.
There is a program to convert line-mode reports to PDFs. I have used the VM
version for quite a while and it is nice.
http://www.homerow.net/rexx/txt2pdf.htm
/Tom Kern
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:22:46 -0500, Tony B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the OP's issue is I hear we're losing SAS and I
In a message dated 10/24/2008 12:33:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is a program to convert line-mode reports to PDFs. I have used the VM
version for quite a while and it is nice.
Lionel's XMITIP has a version of TXT2PDF included. One of the samples shows
Edward Jaffe wrote:
snip
A dedicated LPAR?! That's nothing!
Last week, I spoke with a representative from a large state government
agency that plans to deploy a tiny, dedicated z10 BC just to run
software from an ill-behaving ISVs -- specifically, one that refuses to
recognize sub-capacity
More than one customer I've talked with calls such a machine a penalty box.
I have no problem with doing this unnatural act for expensive software, if it's
required to keep the shop running.
My problem is with the A.H. companies that make it a requirement!
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Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Do a PROF LOCK to save your profile change.
ITschak
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Thanks Steve...that did it.
Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/24/2008 10:36 AM
Howard Rifkind wrote:
When I edit a file I keep getting the following even when I
Do a PROF LOCK to save your profile change.
It doesn't work if you do the profile change and hit PF3 at the same time, as
Steve C. pointed out.
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It is the same program, just packaged separately. If you want to email your
report with or without PDFifying it, XMITIP is fantastic.
/Tom Kern
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:10:23 EDT, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lionel's XMITIP has a version of TXT2PDF included. One of the samples shows
I sincerely wish IBM would fix this on the back end. Looks like every
customer is having to jump through the same pro forma hoops. Licensing for
SMP/E should be automatic for any shop already licensed for z/OS.
.
.
JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
I ordered SMP/e 3.5 as a CBPDO through Shopz, no problem whatsoever. I have it
downloaded now, but have not installed it yet. When I placed my ServerPac
order, I included SMP/e 3.5 on that order as well. Then I found that the
license for it was not included in my current license file, but it
To clarify Walt's post, CA's mainframe security solutions do perform
appropriate security checking and ensure that the identity issuing the
command is authorized to execute that command on the system that it was
routed to.
David Hrycewicz
CA Mainframe Security Development
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Ted,
A.H companies ???
Scott Ford
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We develop software on a small box, no complaints from me buckaroo
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Anatomical reference frequently flagged by net nanny software?
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Ted,
A.H companies ???
Okey-dokey smokie...i see the 'light'lol
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Yes ... silly me: I wasn't thinking :-[ Thanks for noticing.
do while \datatype(year,'N') | LENGTH(year) \= 4
SAY 'Invalid Date!!... enter year, using only 4 num digits'
pull year
end
Cheers, Chris Poncelet
Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote:
If you want to check that the user has entered
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
Anatomical reference frequently flagged by net nanny software?
distal colonic sphincter
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