Re: Netview

2024-04-25 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
NetView or NetView FTP? NetView FTP was sold off to Log-On Software, Inc. https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/topic/0TO0z006v6NGAQ/netview-ftp?language=en_US On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:19:17 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote: >My understanding is that IBM sold off Netview. > >Who did they sell it to? > >

Re: Big LPAR vs small LPAR and DataSharing.

2024-04-19 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Zero experience. However, as I was reading this I seem to remember that when IBM announced their first 10-way mainframe that Amdahl released a statement that they would never build a mainframe with more than 8 CPU's. Their reasoning was you had diminishing returns once you went beyond 8

Re: Converting TCPIP DEVICE and LINK statements in preparation for z/OS 3.1

2024-04-18 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
For: ;DEVICE VIPA00 VIRTUAL 0 ;LINK VIPAL00VIRTUAL 0 VIPA00 I think all you need is: INTERFACE VIPAL00 DEFINE VIRTUAL IPADDR 10.64.14.106 That is basically all we have. I don't think VIPA's have port names. I thought portnames were used to map to TRLE definition in VTAM. For

Re: PASSPORT 3270 emulator (PC) problem w transferring files

2024-04-10 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Robert is on the right path. It's been decades since I used Passport. But you need to have your 3270 session setup with extended attributes enable, then setup IND$FILE options in Passport to use Structured Field or something like that. Then you can set the block size to the largest Passports

Re: z/OS hosting

2024-02-16 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ensono offers z/OS hosting. So does Sirius, which is now part of CDW. On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:39:56 +, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: >Hi, >I was asked to investigate z/OS hosting. >Can any one point me to companies that provides this type of service? >If you've move from on premis to a hosted

Re: APPN networking - How can you confirm that you are the man in the middle.

2024-01-11 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Is this APPN over IP? If so, could your system be routing the IP traffic between the other two nodes. On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 09:07:56 -0600, Tom Longfellow wrote: >This is going to be difficult to explain without pictures. Here is an >outline. > >I am a network node NETA.NODE1 >I have CP-CP

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-23 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Some situations may require manual intervention. That that could be done through automation. Some situations may involve noticeable outage outage to the user. It all depends on how it is setup and how you want to move the task. Say you have LPARA and LPARB and task "myserver" normally

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-20 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
the I/O cards for the zSystems were single board computers using either x86 or PowerPC based CPU's and running some form of either OS2 (early on) or Linux (later on). On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:36:27 -0500, Jon Perryman wrote: >On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 06:59:43 -0500, John S. Giltner, Jr. >wrot

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-19 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
There is a Share presentation called "Getting the most out of your OSA (Opens Systems Adapter)" that does a much better job of describing how the OSA works than I can. On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:58:15 -0500, Jon Perryman wrote: >On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:18:33 +, Allan Staller >wrote: >

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-18 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
the first. > >Youi comment about OMPROUTE is noted. > >Thanks > >On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 1:05 AM John S. Giltner, Jr. >wrote: > >> In addition to everything Jon has stated a few other questions may help >> figure out what needs to be done, or not done. >> >

Re: DVIPA question

2023-10-17 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
In addition to everything Jon has stated a few other questions may help figure out what needs to be done, or not done. Are both LPARS on the same CEC? If both LPARS are on the same CEC, do they share OSA's? Are the IP addresses you plan to use as VIPA's in the same subnet as the OSA's IP

Re: How turn on GSK trace for batch job that is controlled by PAGENT?

2023-10-11 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
It does matter. Those parameters only work when FTP is calling System SSL directly. When using AT-TLS/pagent FTP is not involved in the SSL process so it can't trace I wish I had the details and could be of more help (just learning AT-TLS/pagent) , but in one of the pagent parameters that

Re: Any recommendations for a 3270 emulator for Android

2023-09-25 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I have used Mocha TN3270 also. I believe the lite version limits you to 5 minutes of connect time. Not bad if you only need to make a quick change. The purchase price for the full version is inexpensive, IIRC under $30 USD, and once purchased you can install on multiple Android devices.

Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: Re: Retrieving Certificate details from a server

2023-08-27 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
If you have OpenSSL installed you can do: echo DONE | openssl s_client -connect ipaddress:port | openssl x509 -inform pem -noout -text | more Which will show you the information for the server cert that is being presented On Sun, 27 Aug 2023 10:11:43 +0200, Peter Sylvester wrote: >Hi, >

Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows

2023-07-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
the former because it uses a single channel. Though I much >prefer a one-shot command in any case, and 'scp' does that (and runs via >SSH like 'sftp'). > >Does the Co:Z server speak both SSH (for SFTP) and traditional FTP? > >-- R; <>< > > >On 7/28/23 07:34, John

Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows

2023-07-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I use sftp with Co:Z SFTP installed on the z/OS side. It allows access to z/OS files as well as OMVS files. Where as OpenSSH on z/OS only allows access to OMVS files. Under Windows you can use WSL, Putty, Cygwin, or any other CLI sftp product. I use Cygwin most of the time. On Wed, 26

Re: OSA-ICC question

2023-07-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
In a z/OS environment OSA-ICC's can be used two ways. One way is as a z/OS system console. I know you can require a login on a console, but I'm not sure what you may be able to see or do if you are not logged in. I don't think you can issue commands, you may just be able to see messages roll

Re: After installing z/OS 2.5 , we are not able to connect IP.

2023-06-18 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
In addition to the TN3720 server dropping support for System SSL the ftp server also dropped that support and requires you to use ATTLS. The ftp client still supports System SSL, for now. On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 01:48:30 -0500, Brian Westerman wrote: >First off you are missing OA61532, that's

Re: OBEYFILE SYSTCPD

2023-06-10 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I don't know this for a fact nor I have ever tried it but the TCPIP profile parameter GLOBALTCPIPDATA can be used to point to a file where your TCP.DATA parameters are. I don't know what would happen if you coded that parameter in your existing PROFILE and did an OBEY against it. Not sure if

Re: SSHD terminates immediately with permission(?) problem

2023-05-27 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Has your sshd task always been named SSHD3? In your TCP/IP profile member do you have another task name defined as reserving port 22? On Fri, 26 May 2023 18:09:12 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote: >Can you change the port from 22 to something over 1023 for a quick test? > >On 5/26/2023 6:01 PM, Tom

Re: FTP client question

2023-05-27 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
one is using an MFT product with encryption and hand-shakes, will >> the alternating packets between routes not cause the "connection" and >> data xfer(s) to fail? >> >> I'm asking because I know just enough about Network traffic to be >> truly dangerous -- which means I

Re: FTP client question

2023-05-26 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
z/OS can do load balancing if you have mutiple equal cost routes defined, one route for each OSA and I think they could be the same route, something like: BeginRoutes route default = OSA_INTERFACE1 route default = OSA_INTERFACE2 ENDRoutes You could use either

Re: Is there any documentation for message FC0294 ftpAuth: security values

2023-03-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I don't know where the debug messages are documented, if they are. I know some of these are obvious, but: tlsmech= ATTLS - AT-TLS is providing the SSL/TSL function tlsreuse=N - SSL session reuse is not allowed sFTP=R - not sure, maybe ftp command specified the "-r" command? sCC=C -

Re: Vtam error code

2023-02-12 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Try checking for VTAM return code x10 fdbk2 x09 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Interpreting SEND/RECV CIPHERs

2022-12-10 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Not 100% sure, but I believe that is the data being sent to the remote side encrypted. If I'm right then depending when it is being sent, could be a userid, password, command, or if on the data connection data from the file being transferred.

Re: wc3270. cipher attls

2022-09-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I don't have a whole list, but v4.10ga10 supports at least TLS V1.2 with cipher TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA, which is x'002F'. That is what is chosen when I connect to our system using wc3270. -- John Giltner -- For

Re: Minor disaster

2022-09-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Seems you have a HSM copy. What I do is recover/restore the HSM copy to a new name and then just copy the member from recovered/restored data set to the real data set. -- John G. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: DIR ftp sub command

2022-09-05 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
The one from TSO profile prefix -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: DIR ftp sub command

2022-09-04 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Yes, it uses prefix. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: "Mainframe outage affecting W.Va. state agencies could take 48, 72 hours to resolve"

2022-07-26 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Seems 2 parts failed and it happened last week. https://www.wvpublic.org/government/2022-07-21/mainframe-failure-shuts-down-dmv-dhhr-computer-systems -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: CSSMTP

2022-06-29 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Looking at the CSSMTP documentation it seems to imply that if you have NODENAME=REQUIRED that you need to have DEST and DESTID the same as what you have coded for ExtWrtName" They give the examples of: $ADD DESTID(),DEST= To dynamically adding it and coding the following

Re: SFTP JOB Data parameter

2022-06-17 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
>Not quite, but: >date '+get EBC-GOV-%Y/%m/%d.txt' > > o Why bother with "echo" of a command substitution? > o IIRC, the OP specified slashes. (?!) >Ex : EBC-GOV-mmdd.txt' in this mmdd should be >replace with > year/month/date. My fault, did not read the whole thing. I

Re: SFTP JOB Data parameter

2022-06-17 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Actually I think he needs: echo `date '+get EBC-GOV-%Y%m%d.txt'` To get the format of the date he needs. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: How to Disable OPTION on Http Server for z/Os using Apache

2022-05-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Should work, that is a generic way of disabling OPTIONS for Apache in any platform. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Resize SMF MAN without IPL

2022-03-31 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
You must make sure the new data sets have the same CI size. If you change the CI size, you must IPL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=sets-selecting-smf-data-set-control-interval -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: TCPIP and ICSF. And RMF

2022-01-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
If you are using AT-TLS, then none if the TCPIP family members are directly involved. We are not using AT-TLS yet, but I do believe it can use ICSF. If you are not using AT-TLS for a TCPIP application then I assume it depends on that specific application. I know that the TN3270 server can

Re: Apache webserver that was required as of z/OS 2.4

2022-01-14 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Not 100% sure, but you may try lowing ServerLimit. The default is to start 1 and max (ServerLimit) is default to 18. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: SMF119 - Subtype 20 and Subtype 21

2021-12-30 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Not sure why you would need to both 20 and 21's. The 20's are for connects and 21 are for termination/disconnects. If you find a connect without a disconnect either they are still connected or there is something wrong. -- For

Re: Help with switching an IP:PORT to TLS V1.2

2021-12-24 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
If you have access to OpenSSL you can issue the command: echo /dev/null | openssl s_client -showcerts -connect address:port -ssl3 If SSLv3 then the 1st line returned will end with "SSL alert number 70" or "SSL alert number 40". If it is supported you will see the certs. You can change

Re: SMF field data

2021-09-05 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Can you identify what the names may map back to? Are they IP host names, NetBIOS computer names? I know DB2 tries to do a reverse look-up when a remote I IP host when they connect to it. If so, could 2 of your LPAR's be using different DNS servers than the 3rd? Or maybe the hosts

Re: NVAS 2.1 zOS

2021-08-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
My initial look is that you need to modify and implement the exit EMSELGNX. You may need to use EMSEADEX. -- John G. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: NVAS 2.1 zOS

2021-08-13 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I have to try and remember the details, but I think it has something to do with External Groups and one of the user exits. -- John G. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IBM Encryption Facility for OpenPGP

2021-04-23 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
o all who helped. > >Best Regards >Paul > >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of >John S. Giltner, Jr. >Sent: 22 April 2021 20:53 >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: IBM Encryption Facility for OpenPGP > >Caution!

Re: IBM Encryption Facility for OpenPGP

2021-04-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
.JCL.CNTL(BBXSINIT)' >> >>In ibmef.conf I hav >> >>CIPHER_NAME AES_256 >>S2K_CIPHER_NAME AES_256 >> >>Best Regards >>Paul >> >>-Original Message- >>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of >>John S. Giltner

Re: IBM Encryption Facility for OpenPGP

2021-04-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
ards >Paul > >-Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of >John S. Giltner, Jr. >Sent: 22 April 2021 14:07 >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: IBM Encryption Facility for OpenPGP > >Caution! External email. Do not open attac

Re: IBM Encryption Facility for OpenPGP

2021-04-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
What command options did you use to encrypt on the z/OS side? I still trying to figure out some of the PGP stuff, but it looks like it encrypted the file with a passphrase, but it also signed something within the encrypted file with the default session key for your user-id on the z/OS side.

Re: STC JESYSMSG Quandry

2021-04-08 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Not sure if it really makes a difference, but I noticed that one of the SYSOUT classes, A I think, had COMPRESS=YES and the class K had COMPRESS=NO. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: FTP-SSL from z/OS client to Linux

2021-03-01 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I've always just did: gskstrace gsktrace.trc > gsktrace.txt But I do generally use the gsktrace to try and figure out issues with ssl negotiation. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: FTP-SSL from z/OS client to Linux

2021-03-01 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Well in the data you sent out on the client hello I only see two x'35', on is at byte 3,which is part of the length field. The other is at 2C which really starts at 2B which is cipher x'0035' In your 1st post the trace showed part of a error message that I think you were receiving which as

Re: FTP-SSL from z/OS client to Linux

2021-02-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
It's been awhile, but it looks like the Linux server is requesting your SSL certificate as a client, but is not passing a list of CA's that it trusts. When the server requests the client to send it's client cert, it supposed to tell the client what CA's is trusts. Some clients will ignore the

Re: FTP with TLSv1.2 and SHA256

2021-02-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
That is what I opened the PMR for and IBM said that FTP does not pass GSK_V3_CIPHER_SPECS_EXPANDED to System SSL. To get any of the 4 character ciphers you must use AT-TLS. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: FTP with TLSv1.2 and SHA256

2021-02-27 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Could be a different issue then. We were trying to connect to a site that only supported: ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 Which requires the use of GSK_V3_CIPHER_SPECS_EXPANDED instead of GSK_V3_CIPHER_SPECS.

Re: FTP with TLSv1.2 and SHA256

2021-02-24 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I just went through this and had a PRM with IBM. FTP will use TLSv1.2 as you have found buy using env variables, but you are limited to the cipher specs it supports natively. It will not honor anything you try and code with env variables. You will need to use AT-TLS.

Re: NVAS MVS 2.1 help

2020-09-30 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Peter, We are running NVAS 2.1, but it has been a LONG time since we implemented it and I don't remember all of the details. Here is link to the manuals if you don't have it already: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/NetViewAccessServices2.1.html IIRC there are 2 exits provided by IBM.

Re: Where does FTP server F DEBUG= write its data?

2020-07-18 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Our also goes to syslogd to the file pointed to by: daemon.debug /path/filename In /etc/syslog.conf -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: SuperWylbur Users

2020-07-07 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
What happens if you do show sysout/ddnames and show sysout/ddnames all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SuperWylbur Users

2020-07-07 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I've reached out to SSI and asked about this. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Using SSH and SFTP from Windows to z/OS using authorized_keys ???

2020-07-06 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Not that mystifying. None of those tools try and do key authentication by default. You need to configure them to use key by telling them which key file to use. Never tried I/O redirection for sending files using just "ssh", so I'm not sure. I 99% sure it would work with Cygwin, never

Re: Using SSH and SFTP from Windows to z/OS using authorized_keys ???

2020-07-06 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Oh, just as a F.Y.I, WinSCP and Putty only support using Putty's PPK file format. Filezilla supports both Putty's PPK format and OpenSSH PEM file format. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Using SSH and SFTP from Windows to z/OS using authorized_keys ???

2020-07-06 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Ah. I have Cygwin installed on my Windows computer and I always use command line. In each of those you need to point to the private key file on your Windows host. For WinSCP edit your connection and select advanced. Look for Authentication under SSH and point to your private key. For Putty

Re: SuperWylbur Users

2020-07-06 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
It is still distributed with full source code. Typically is new JES2 releases that require modules to be re-assembles. I can't really remember the last time we had to re-assemble or make any changes because of z/OS upgrades.

Re: Using SSH and SFTP from Windows to z/OS using authorized_keys ???

2020-07-06 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
I think somehow you might be able to do this in RACF, but we don't. Your public key on the Windows host needs to be added to the file "authorized_keys". Needs to be in your home directory on the z/OS system in the .ssh sub-directory. So if your home is "/home/lbdyck" on z/OS this would be

Re: SuperWylbur Users

2020-07-05 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Unfortunately SSI is going out of business and is dropping all support Dec. 31, 2020 and is not guaranteeing that SuperWylbur will work with 2.4 or beyond. -- John Giltner -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: syslogd assist

2020-07-03 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
IIRC the problem is somebody is attempting to ssh/sftp in using a user-id that does not exist on your system, which means the password they entered is invalid. Is your system accessible via the public Internet? Somebody may be attempting to break into your system. If you don't have auth

Re: SuperWylbur Users

2020-07-03 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Dennis, I would really like to help, but we are at z/OS 2.3 and don't plan on starting our migration to the next z/OS until early next year. Even though SSI is not supporting z/OS 2.4 and beyond, I'm hoping to keep SuperWylbur running for awhile. Please contact me directly with any finding

Re: REXX assistance

2020-05-22 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
As others have pointed out "IDCAMS" is a NetView command that calls IDCAMS. The original intent was to allow you to automate maintenance of the VSAM files that NetView uses without bringing down NetView. However I sure that others, like you and me, have found other purposes for it. We also