the outside world.
No one
should get to them before they get scanned. All failures in the scan need to be
further
quarantined until a security (anti-virus) expert looks at the files.
/Thomas Kern
/on contract to
/U.S. Dept of Energy
/301-903-2211 (Office)
/301-905-6427 (Mobile)
On 3/27/2012 14:25, R.S
I feel the asterisk should mean use the global default and the '' should mean
don't use
any value.
/Tom Kern
On 3/19/2012 17:12, Phil Smith wrote:
In our configuration data set, you can specify a default, global value for
something. Specific entries in the configuration can override that
I recommend that you create any new categories/definitions that you want to
subdivide/clarify your IT complex. As you create each entity, create your own
glossary and
hand it out to the PC and Management types who don't yet understand Mainframe or
Enterprise Class IT architecture.
/Tom
On
When filling in an ITIL based Configuration management database, I used the
basic server
definition for a mainframe. Then I created new entities for LPAR being part
of the
mainframe server, and Virtual Machine also being part of a server or an LPAR. I
also use
the Virtual Machine definition as
I like the UPC type square encoding my vcard information.
Or just an index number into a Share attendance database of vcard information,
available
to all Share members or only those attending (I don't care which, but it must
not go
outside of those boundaries).
/Tom Kern
On 8/14/2011 14:59, Ed
enterprise-wide encryption product uses. We use Entrust and I could not get
Entrust/Outlook to deal with PGP encrypted email nor get Entrust encrypted
email to be understood by my private email client ( Thunderbird ).
/Thomas Kern
/contractor to
/U.S. Dept of Energy
/301-903-2211
On Wed, 23 Mar
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:53:28 -0800, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote:
I can believe auditors would ask a question like , virus checking on
mainframes, been doing systems work on mainframes 40+ yrs, never
seen a virus AT ALL..
On a PC totally different issue, btw I think one of the
I don't have a z/OS solution for you, but I do use CLAMAV on my zLinux
webservers. It is not an efficient solution. It takes a lot of CPU and I/O.
If I had to do it over again, I would engineer an x86 staging server to do
ALL the Anti-Virus scanning as files are placed there for migration to the
They did not get quite the best thief that money could buy. Maybe if they were more
concerned with quality rather than sheer profit, they might have gotten a more honest
reliable programmer.
If they still have that opening, I can come up with a team of programmers for that amount,
all
When I first went (~1979) I was told it was:
Standing Committee for Imbibers, Drinkers and Sots
/Tom Kern
On 10/14/2010 5:03 AM, Ron Hawkins wrote:
All,
I know what it is, but I never really knew what it stood for.
One reference I found, the only one, says it means The SHARE
Not just use the strongest, but you have to go out of your way to reject
using the low and medium strength ciphers. My cyber security people
complain about anything that is 112 bits or less.
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:43:18 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote:
W dniu
This is what I have used in past mainframe applications:
http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?HASHWF
/Tom Kern
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
Is there a preferred hashing algorithm for such strings? The strings will be
fixed length with trailing blanks.
I was thinking of simply
Part of what I look for in a good test is catching errors in the data. I always
try to put
some errors into the input data to make sure they don't get all the way through
into
production. I still catch errors in real production data because the developers
were lazy
on data validation, always
Look for a product from Voltage Security. Look for Phil Smith III.
/Tom Kern
George Henke wrote:
1) Does anyone know of developers being prevented from using production data
and being required to create their own test data completely from scratch?
2) Does anyone know of a software tool that
I run Hercules 3.06 under HercGUI 1.11 on my Vista laptop without problems.
But you will find more of us on the Hercules groups on yahoo.com (h390-vm,
h390-mvs).
/Tom Kern
Ravi Kumar wrote:
Hi Team,
Does anyone having experience installing Hercules Emulator on Window Vista??
i
have
I think it will be quite a while before all hard disks are gone, but it is
inevitable.
When my phone has a 16GB memory card in it and a slot for another 16GB, you
have to accept
that solid state storage is not far off.
I do see a migration from hard to solid-state, must the way we migrated from
I would be interested in finding out what the real hardware and opsys is
that these reporters are so disdainful of. And it would be fun for a
community of reasonable experts in computing (IBM-MAIN, IBMVM, etc) to
review and critique the modernization plans. Are they going to a z10?
Windows 2003?
You might be able to build something around this JES2Mail/JES2FTP product.
We use the JES2Mail for PDF creation in z/OS and it works well.
/Tom Kern
/U.S. Dept of Energy
/301-903-2211
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:21:14 -0600, Jim Marshall jim.marsh...@opm.gov wrote:
We are big into TN3270 Telnet
for email and Oracle).
TSM and DR process has worked fine for us for at least 12 years of DR
exercises. But we have moved from DDR/VM:backup to ADRDSSU for full volume
backup/restore, and I have also tested DDR and other processes for encrypted
z/VM backups.
/Thomas Kern
/U.S. Department of Energy
We use two different levels of backup.
File-level backup/restore is done from within the linux instance. We use
Tivoli Storage Manager, but FDR/Upstream or even Bacula can be used.
Disaster Recovery backups are done with the linux instances down (logged off
not just idle). I have used native
The IBM 1620 was the computer my high school used for the math elective I
took in the spring of 1971. First day of class, I had the dubious honor of
toggling in a bootstrap program.
Five and a half years later (June 23, 1976), I logged onto my first virtual
machine on an Amdahl 470/V6. I haven't
restores at DR for my Linux guests
but have tested recovering a complete Oracle data logical volume. By going
with FCP connections you will not be able to perform z/OS backups, but you
could do z/VM based full backups. File-level backups to z/OS is still good
with this scenario.
/Thomas Kern
/U.S
'Sick Puppy' ?
I thought that was the definition of mainframe systems programmers...
Could you use the recfm/lrecl of the output datasets to trigger conversion
from EBCDIC to ASCII?
Also a good SMF Reformatter should also include selection criteria so that I
do not have to send ALL the SMF
I happen to like the kind of product posting that was done in this
particular case. The vendor responded to a specific question about a
specific functionality by telling the questioner that a particular product
does exactly that function.
This is exactly what I want from vendor product SUPPORT
And in case he might be interested in becoming a heretic, there is a
z/VM Basics book too.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247316.html?Open
/Tom Kern
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:35:34 -0800, Lionel B Dyck
lionel.b.d...@kp.org wrote:
You can take a look at the intro to the new mainframe
.
Has anyone seen this in a migration of Oracle 8i?
/Thomas Kern
/U.S. Department of Energy
/301-903-2211
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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
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 thought the early prototype of this was the Single-System-Image code
written at University of Waterloo back in the early 1980's. I tried to
convince management that it would be cheaper to use it to glue together a
slew of surplus 4341s than some of the other alternatives.
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 16
I use the x3270 emulator, normally as a mod3 but have used it as a mod4 and
with custom screensize. I can be configured as a 3279 and you can still
change the colors after that. There is a BRIGHT color setup and a REVERSE
setup that I use regulaly.
There was a packaging (from State of Alaska or
Is this utility available for the DFSMSrmm that is available/required for
ATL/VTS use under z/VM?
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:49:01 -0500, Mike Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Victor, You would use the DFSMSrmm supplied utility EDGINERS to erase the
tape. EDGINERS uses the
You might look at the TSUPDATE program in file 35 from www.cbttape.org.
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:45:15 -0400, Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Way, WAY back, IBM provided a utility in IPO1.LINKLIB (at least I think
that's where it was) which would allow one to perform mass changes
Your customer is using ManagerSpeak. They are using the term MIPS in a
different context from the computer professionals on this list. You need to
be a bit of a translator from ManagerSpeak to ComputerProfessional.
Your customer is saying that the long running application is taking a large
I set up several new transfer templates to cover the common but not default
formats for my transfers. I have an BIN-F80, BIN-F4096, TXT-F80, etc.
Go to Edit | Preferences | Transfers | MVS and then you can type in a new
name for your template, then fill in the details and click on SAVE.
/Tom
For programs inside a virtual machine that use standard CMS TAPEIO macros
for their I/O, you can create a nucleus extension that intercepts the tape
I/O and transforms it in some way. Two examples are the BLOCKIO program that
was used by lots of installations to increase the real blocksize of data
Correction: I think I got the name of the first example wrong. It might be
BLOCKTAP not BLOCKIO.
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:48:35 -0500, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For programs inside a virtual machine that use standard CMS TAPEIO macros
for their I/O, you can create a nucleus
:
Thank you, Tom. That is very informative.
Does this apply (somehow indirectly) to, for example, inside a z/OS guest
which attaches and accesses a tape drive?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Thomas Kern
Sent: 26. kesäkuuta 2008
Not all Federal data centers see any value in dinosaurs, even dinosaurs with
penguins. Neither dinosaur nor penguin is as good as Windows.
Management will suffer to have network infrastructure running under some
form of linux (Centos or Fedora, but nothing with a support contract). But
If you can get the SMF data into a usable format and get it down to PCs, you
might try this R statistical/graphing package:
http://www.r-project.org/
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:51:12 -0500, McKown, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, it looks like SAS is pricing itself out of our
I have a hard time reading the documentation too. I think it was written by
statisticians for statisticians. Maybe if some really high-powered people
who know how to do this kind of data manipulation/statistics were to start
working in R or W and made some sample code public, then the rest of us
Usually we don't choose to move away from good products like SAS or from 3rd
party performance monitors. It is usually a Management decision to lower
costs at any cost that forces us to go back to basic analysis/reporting,
often done in freebie languages (FORTRAN-G, PL/I-F, Rexx, etc)
And
There is a difference between the 'Intro to Chargeback' reports that lowly
sysprogs might give to management as their first look at computer accounting
and the high-powered What-If modeling done by capacity planning scientists
trying to show the outcome of buying a zIIP this month and a zAAP next
I don't havean pointers to books or documentation but I can make a few
suggestions.
I would use CPU seconds rather than Service Units. Managers can understand
that there are only 86400 CPU seconds per engine per day. If you can get the
price paid for your z9, take 1/4 of that and divide by
Agreed, Service Units are a better measure for full-fledged chargeback and
capacity planning. They work very well with managers who already understand
SUs. If your management is less than the IBM trained management, they might
not understand Service Units at the beginning.
The move from computer
I think the XMITIP package can also transform your input listing into a PDF
(landscape or portrait) that can be read on any PC with Adobe's Acrobat and
printed on whatever printer that PC can reach.
/Tom Kern
On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:29:53 -0400, Stocker, Herman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stephen,
And our 13 OfficeVision instances on one 4381 worked very well and we did
not loose any backups of email, documents, user a-disks, or SQL/DS databases.
But this is only the latest of 'thin-client' projects that have been tried
for at least a dozen years.
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 27 May 2008 19:23:50
My favorite was an auditor that wanted a printout of our /etc/passwd. This
was a VM/SP system. When we stopped laughing at him and told him we didn't
have such security holes, he went away.
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:32:27 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of my
Our instructions were to give them EXACTLY what they ask for or nothing. If
he had asked in a more general way for a listing of user definitions, I
would have prepared a sanitized USER DIRECT, but he was explicit and
insistent on getting /etc/passwd. That was what was on his unix checklist.
/Tom
Doesn't Ghostscript have a txt2pdf program?
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:12:39 -0400, Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/4/16 David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It'd still be nice to have something on Linux that understands 1403
listings, though.
lpd...?
Tony H.
You mean a 'new' technology like this reference?
VMSHARE has been the conferencing system of the VM Cluster of SHARE since
August 1976. After VMSHARE was closed down in August 1998 it was decided
that the database should be kept available for reference. Read here the
announcement of that by Ross
I took the original posting as a call for help. He needs assistance with
beta testing. I think that is an excellent use of this group and an
excellent attitude from a vendor.
/Tom Kern
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For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /
I like this USB pen drive idea. Put the Share Logo and Year on it and
preload it with the agenda and as many of the PDFs, Powerpoints as possible
before the meeting and make the remainder available from a website running
in the exhibition hall (Apache under linux under z/VM on a z10?). I will
http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=ibmvm
After you get on that list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), then you can get more
information about the standard VMUTIL service machine that is used for
initiating system timer events.
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211 (Office)
/301-905-6427 (Mobile)
On Mon, 25 Feb
They need to know and understand that not everyone runs just z/OS, DB2 and
Websphere. Some of us (non-team-players) run z/VM and Linux and have real
non-Websphere workloads on both z/VM and Linux.
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:59:19 -0500, John H Kettner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
zFolks,
My question is: If you have two z890s, A with 1 CP and 1 IFL and B with 2
IFL, then in a disaster where A is under a pile of rubble, can you get IBM
to turn on a CP and an IFL in B and still pay the same price for z/OS amp;
z/VM?
/Tom Kern
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:09:16 +0900, Timothy Sipples
List On Behalf Of Thomas Kern
You could save some money by running SLES10 and the linux
version of LSoft's LISTSERV product.
No z/OS or z/VM necessary.
But z/VM would provide cheap insurance against outages, especially if
multiple lists were hosted (each list could have its own virtual
machine
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
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:18:41 -0600, tony babonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why don't we take up a collection to buy an old CPU, zOS and all else
needed, then
I would like to see a free IBM Session Manager and a Workload Simulator.
Giving away software isn't usually deemed to be UNFAIR.
Trying to kill off your competition is STANDARD business practice.
Now if they do both unequally, such as offer you the session manager but not
the workload simulator
There is a very nice program called TXT2PDF which I think is packaged as
part of a very nice program called XMITIP. Look at www.cbttape.org for them.
TXT2PDF will create a PDF from a text file (with or without carriage
control, ansi or machine). XMITIP will send that PDF to someone's email
A good philosophy is to use some program common to both sending and
receiving systems that will compress and possibly encrypt the data,
retaining the file's original record formatting as part of the new data
file. Transfer that new data file and decrypt/expand it at the receiving
site. XMIT can be
Goddard Space Flight Center modified IEFSD095 to include all characters
available on the TN print chain and to add a FORTRAN-callable entry point.
This one has been ported to VM.
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:09:09 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In [EMAIL
I too, am a consultant of sort, but not for outsourcing, My client wants me
in their building to babysit their systems. I do not use their email address
because all of this traffic floods the blackberry I have to carry, and
because sometimes, I ask for information or offer information that is NOT
For our first DR exercise, I recommended to my client that we overwrite all
of our DASD before leaving. My client listened to the DR vendor say that
they cleaned all DASD between customer use. What they really did was a
simple MVS relabel/rewrite-VTOC. When we arrived and began our VM restores,
I think it was ported to IBM's mainframes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX_(operating_system)
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:19:44 -0500, William Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is not AIX ported to z/Series?
It should provide the customer the same benefits as Linux on
Not only have they pocketed their bonus for reducing this month's bottom
line, they have moved on to a different company or government agency and
don't care about the mess they left behind.
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:34:48 -0500, McKown, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but that doesn't
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:10:37 -0700, r hey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a city/country in the world with a real shortage of M/F
sysprogs?
No, no company or government wants to pay sysprog salaries for an admin to
'retry, reboot and reinstall' their windows servers.
/Tom Kern
Have you thought about contacting the author, Lucious Leland (sorry if I
mis-spelt it) and asking him to enter into a support contract with you?
Like a real product but rewarding the real author.
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:23:59 -0500, Alan Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The company is call Bynari.
http://www.bynari.net/
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:33:59 -0400, Thompson, Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to remember who it is, it may be Sine Nominae (Latin for no
name?) has a product called Binarii (?). At an IBM school I went to, it
was said to
Since it is for a museum environment, you should ask your local IBM office
to donate some maintenance expertise. You might have to supply multiple
3350's as source parts for repairs.
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:45:52 -0400, William Donzelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a lead on a few
Or management might see that MS really does know the only way to use
computers and finally get rid of all of the dinosaurs.
Good luck on your interview.
/Tom Kern
On Mon, 14 May 2007 09:29:28 -0500, Eric Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This almost sounds like in 1999 when someone claimed a
As a long-time VMer, I have tested almost everything is another virtual
machine, from MVT through MVS to z/OS, and VM, VSE and now Linux. I do not
need another LPAR as long as I have the real resources, memory, DASD, CPU to
handle the test workload plus some overhead. If you need to test a new
I use an x3270 emulator under Windows/Cygwin that works just fine for my SSL
enabled mainframes. Here is the posting from the IBMVM mailing list:
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:51:16 -0500
Reply-To: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [log in to unmask]
From: Mike Caughran [log in to
I cannot say that mainframe encryption software is NEVER wrong, but I can
say that I have been using various mainframe encryption processes for 30
years (and a few days) and I have 'lost' data 5 times. I could not remember
the encryption key those 5 times. I still have those files and once in a
The encryption of data on a backup tape does not need to be done ALL the time.
If one level of backup are in your automated tape library, in a data center
with card-key access in a building with armed guards on all entrances who
inspect packages coming in AND going out, then I don't think you need
If one of your tapes walks out the door with a disgruntled employee, then you
have the wrong guards on the door. They are not just supposed to be there for
decoration. No one person or organization can be responsible for the security
of EVERYTHING. So make sure your guards do their job and you
This past summer, we had to determine how 'Personally Identidifiable
Information' could be protected. Not just on the laptops that managers play
with but all PII that is move offsite. We made our recommendations. We have
since been told that we do not have to worry about encrypting our backups
I think there are some people here who work for an organization that might have
more than 31 data centers. It has three initials. Something like HAL, JCN,
something or other.
/Tom Kern
--- Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Google has a link to a cached copy of the Austin-American
If Lynn Wheeler has written a program to read the IBMMAIN and IBMVM listserv
postings and respond with references to relevant past postings and
occasional new material that has not been circulated through the MVS and VM
sysprog communities, I WANT THAT PROGRAM. It must be good code.
/Tom Kern
On
One way to satisfy the auditors and still be able to recover at the hotsite
when ALL of your peoduction volumes have been backed up with encryption is to
use the vendor's floor system or your own customized recovery-only system.
Build yourself a small system with only those utilities that you need
I like the idea of a stripped down z/OS system that can be used to drive an
install, testing, disaster recovery and other activities where you don't
want to restricted by your production system.
My special z/VM system fit on one 3390-m3 until the z/OS folks wanted to
take away all of the mod3
I don't know about launching a z/OS or z/VM assembler/compiler from a
Windows workstation, but if you have a z/Arch assembler/compiler that
actually runs on your Windows workstation, then The Hessling Editor (THE)
and Regina are good tools to use. THE can be found here:
I would love to get my hands on CSMP, PL/C, GPSS, SNOBOL and SPITBOL to get
them working in a z/VM environment. If you can find them, please let me know.
/Tom Kern
--- Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to locate original distribution tapes for a number of OLD software
products
I used to have such a program but I misplaced it over the years. Can you share
your 'last-step' program?
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
--- Brian Westerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a assembler program that can be added as the last step of the JOB
which will send you an email (via SMTP) with
We run 2 VM and 2 z/OS LPARS on our 2086-170. I can get the IOCDS on Monday and
send it to you.
/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211
--- Marc Holiwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am currently running two LPARs (with zOS 1.4 as OSes)
on a IBM 2086 model A04(220), and would like to know
if it is possible to
This is the set that I like. The C3270 has a smaller footprint so I have it on
a small CD that I have in my daytimer. I use the X3270 for my regular work from
home, more ablibity to change fontsize. It also understands SSL enabled tn3270
(L:hostnameoraddr:port).
/Tom Kern
Date: Wed, 21
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:34:10 -0500, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:26:58 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Didn't they ship one 470/6? It definitely was the machine originally
announced. As I recall the first 470V went to Bernie
You might take a look at the HASHWF package on the IBM z/VM Downloads website:
HASHWF 2000-01-12 A General HASH function (S/370 and other systems)
The hashing code is supplied in Assembler source code. I do not know if it is
really capable of running above the line, but the Rexx function
I don't know if your level of XMITIP supports creating password protected
PDFs, but that is how I send some reports from a z/VM system to user's
email. I use a TXT2PDF program that takes mainframe generated linemode
reports and packages them as password (128 bit) protected PDFs. I then ship
the
It helps alot. Thanks.
Now for your survey: Yes, I would be interested in having some sort of a secure
copy from Windows, Linux, Unix, z/VM and z/OS to all of these. I am automating
some data transfers between multiple different platforms using ftp and scp. It
would be nice it I only needed to
I had a Technology guru test running SQUID under Linux under z/VM and he
used most of our z890 IFL.
And almost any Oracle application programmer can write a bad query that will
get Oracle to eat an IFL.
With better application choices, tens, hundreds of Linux images can run
nicely on an IFL
And you should definately join the IBMVM and Linux-390 lists.
http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=ibmvm
http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-VM
/Tom Kern
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:35:25 -0500, Tom Schmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:16:28 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote:
Sometimes if the education money isn't allocated or spent by March, it gets
'borrowed' to make up for other projects that have over-spent their budgets. I
might get to go to Share in Baltimore if there is any leftover money that needs
to be spent before the end of the fiscal year. And that is only
If Management really wants to understand why sysprogs get so cranky and why
they should get paid more, then Management should be the ONLY personel going
on the next Disaster Recovery exercise. Let the sysprogs stay home and relax.
/Tom Kern
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:02:46 -0600, Desi de la Garza
Here is an entry from the VMESA-L/IBMVM list that will get you a nice x3270
emulator for Windows for FREE.
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:51:16 -0500, Mike Caughran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I compiled up the most recent version of c3270 and x3270 and
made windows installers for each which
His real requirement is to placate the management/network/security folks, but
they just don't know how to phase their demand in IBM mainframese. They
probably really want to stop cleartext userid/password transmission where all
the spies can see them. They network and security folks know that ssh
My favorite auditor request was when an auditor asked for a printout from my
VM/SP system. I had to leave the meeting before my boss could finish laughing.
The auditor wanted /etc/passwd.
/Tom Kern
--- McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't any competent auditor who is asking about
This has been cross-posted to the IBM-Main and the VM lists to gather as many
ideas as I can.
We have a problem with users who really only use our systems to push or pull
data via FTP. As we go forward with FTPS (SSL protected FTP) our security
people more readily accept FTP. Our problem is that
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HILLGANG is the DC Area z/VM and Linux User's Group.
/Thomas Kern
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--- Juraschek, David F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been to MARIST L-Soft.
Is there a z/VM (or just a VM
If you can install LINUX under z/OS, please do so and tell all of us how you
did it. But so far Linux runs in an LPAR or under z/VM.
But my feelings about your real question (to use z/OS USS or something else) is
to use what you are familiar with and what your management is familiar with.
Going
Or better, CP-67 and CMS?
/Tom Kern
--- Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The CPU in the XBOX is an IBM PowerPC.
I heard on the radio today that the next generation of the XBOX will be
named XBOX 360. Maybe it will run PCP or MFT? How about TSO? The
possibilities are endless.
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