Re: AT-TLS Redbook

tps://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/flora-gui1/2023/01/03/attls-info-hub?communityKey=406e5630-08ab-45a7-8592-d1c960f86311> — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.i

IBM Z Security Summit Australia: May 13-17, 2024

: May 13: Sydney https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/6dmrxnmb/landing/page/landing May 15: Canberra https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/xcrqaqmb/landing/page/landing May 17: Melbourne https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/8ju5aimb/landing/page/landing — Timothy Sipples Senior

Re: Homegrown ZOS Dashboards?

orld as Type 80, the first >product in the space, the first product to integrate SMF with server >industry security products. Possible. Jeroen Tiggelman, for example, would have a better perspective on this part of history than I have. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Di

Re: Homegrown ZOS Dashboards?

ent And another: https://www.intellimagic.com/solutions/our-approach/intellimagic-and-splunk/ ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.

Netview

IBM Z System Automation — IBM’s automation software for z/OS (and more than z/OS) — requires IBM Z NetView. And IBM Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) solutions require IBM Z System Automation and thus IBM Z NetView, too. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets

IBM Statement of Direction: Fibre Channel Endpoint Security

The first link was working, but here’s an updated link: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/z-linuxone-2q-2024-statement-direction This link to the FAQ document still seems to be working: https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/Y6E9KLA8 — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets

IBM Statement of Direction: Fibre Channel Endpoint Security

/Y6E9KLA8 IBM Fibre Channel Endpoint Security is already available for all current model machines and some prior model machines. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?

(or can use) the FPZ4 authorized services. IBM offers some tools that can help determine whether the z/OS zEDC feature would be of benefit, and how much. This whitepaper illustrates such an analysis: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/inline-files/zEDC_White_Paper.pdf — Timothy Sip

Re: Anyone exploiting ZEDC?

h zEDC then store the compressed data in a data set (via JZOS for example). — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IB

OpenShift 4.15 Now Available

/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/gerald-hosch1/2024/03/14/new-deployment-options-for-less-resource-reqs?CommunityKey=fd56de68-d38b-499b-a1f4-51010f4eee66 — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: Ideas for less-distruptive disruptions - Netmaster:Solve and CICS

, 2024. To access the new application please visit: https://www.ourcompany.com/abc-app If you need special assistance with this transition please contact Our Company Help Desk at 1-800-555-1234 and use QuikHelp code RAN24AA. Press or to return to the previous screen. — Timothy Sipples

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 1.22 Now Available

/ibm-open-sdk-for-go-122-is-now-available The IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go is available to all z/OS licensees at no additional charge. Optional paid support is available from IBM. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia

Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

The documentation for IBM z/OS Container Platform is now available here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zoscp/1.1.0 — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: With IBM planning (planned) dropping support for SNA / 802.3

ble for z/OS 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA62208 — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For

Re: IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

(for the first time) the IBM z/OS Container Platform at SHARE about 12 hours ago as I write this. Any first person reports? — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

IBM Announces the z/OS Container Platform

orm-delivers-industry-standard-cloud-technologies-build-run-zos-unix-applications-as-containers-natively-zos?region=US> — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.i

Re: ZOS Sending Logs to Sumologic Experience?

ve person, and “pink” means an infant abduction. But I didn’t know that until 5 minutes ago. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com --

Re: RACF, external password management

CL/SUPERSESSION, Z MFA, and PassTickets. Other combinations may be possible, but that’s the typical IBM combination. The entry point to the documentation is here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.3.0?topic=customization-clsupersession-zos — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry So

Re: RACF, external password management

g-password-phrases ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: RACF, external password management

s a 6 digit code from an IBM or Google authenticator app on their mobile device, for example). Then extend 2 factor authentication (2FA) to every user. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacif

Re: RACF, external password management

C) to log into RACF (via TSO/E for example). You can choose whether the CTC is reusable and how quickly it expires. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.3.0?topic=policies-setting-policy-token-timeout https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.3.0?topic=policies-setting-cache-token-credential-be-reusable

RACF, external password management

although it’s a common one. https://www.ibm.com/products/ibm-multifactor-authentication-for-zos — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

How about using MQ for z/OS, shared queues (if desired), and channel sequence numbers? — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

trol Code (CFCC) likely uses CPACF instructions (if FC 3863 is present) when you configure encryption-related functions to strengthen a CF’s security posture. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@s

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

iminating a lot of network latency. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

er image has no direct access to ICSF. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Encryption and decryption - processor or TCPIP

ound help and give you some areas to check? — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish*

Best wishes Cheryl! If Singapore is on your bucket list please stop by to say hello. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

CBS's "60 Minutes": Quantum Computing

If you’d like to understand why IBM is so bullish on quantum computing — and so focused on quantum-safe cryptography — this “60 Minutes” story is well worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ssT6Dzmnw — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions

Re: AI System Services on z/OS 3.1 - is a CF really mandatory?

, but for the AI-driven WLM batch initiators feature I can’t see how you’d avoid the EzNoSQL requirement at least currently. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia

Re: Anyone with zCX docker hands on?

pick up those same ChaCha20-Poly1305 optimizations on s390x. Or at least that’s my understanding, and only with a cursory glance at kernel source code. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sip

Re: Anyone with zCX docker hands on?

ard) to connect these two peers with one another to work around the issue? — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: Anyone with zCX docker hands on?

OS LPARs. Or a hop that uses z/OS AT-TLS at both ends. If it’s on the same machine you could use a HiperSockets/SMC-D hop, although you may still want to use z/OS AT-TLS (with client and server certificate authentication) atop the HiperSocket/SMC-D hop. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digita

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

recruiting, catering, and myriad other business services. Sometimes it makes sense for organizations to buy business services outside the organization, and sometimes it doesn’t. Either way (and both ways) the cloud object storage solutions for IBM Z and LinuxONE servers are available to help.

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

IBM Cloud Direct Link service is available here: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/dl?topic=dl-locations#connect-locations — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

on IBM Z/LinuxONE as cloud object storage *servers*. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

options then let the client decide whether any of these few options are worthy of selection or if inertia will rule. I understand the client doesn’t like any of the options available, but they seem to be the available options. So it’s probably time to choose their “least worst” but still viable op

Re: Does IBM file manager let you access panvalet

Attila Fogarasi wrote: > Your other option is to convert Panvalet to Endevor... That’s not the (only) other option. Another option is to switch from Panvalet to Git with IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB). ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Soluti

Re: Does IBM file manager let you access panvalet

Yes. See Chapter 9 (p. 113) here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/file-manager-for-zos/15.1?topic=customization-guide — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

up as an option. Maybe that product could have another input/output handler (CLOUDOBJ?), although it’d be up to the product team to consider (of course). ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

that way. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

n your backups using Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM out to the TS7700, and then the TS7700’s Cloud Storage Tier takes it from there. Tape Manager for z/VM is helpful. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacifi

Re: SNA Link Replacement in Z/OS 2.5

rossover cable (depending on how the OSA-Express adapters are configured). Can you also do this for fibre cables? I don’t know; I’ve never tried it. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecuri

Re: Free SMPE product to just practice

-PA1 IBM Z Open Automation Utilities Double check whether there are any charges, of course, but my understanding is no. Optional Subscription & Support may be chargeable. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/Linu

Re: Availability of "Orphanware"?

tility called DFHMSCAN, available through CICS TS 5.5 (removed in 5.6 and higher), that can determine whether load modules use CICS macros. ...Kenneth Dakin has a LinkedIn profile! And his LinkedIn biography highlights his experience writing WRS. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital

Availability of "Orphanware"?

such as additional printer drivers. Available for both VM/CMS and MVS. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM

NIST Releases Draft Standards for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Details here: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/08/nist-standardize-encryption-algorithms-can-resist-attack-quantum-computers Comments are due by November 22, 2023. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia

z/OS 3.1 Webcasts at Asia-Pacific Friendly Times

brings. The Webcast recordings are generally posted to the IBM Z and LinuxONE Community Web site, but if you join the live Webcast you have the opportunity to question the presenters. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE

Generating Kerberos Keytab Files on z/OS

d7dc7-29aa-40f6-829c-934e4b522bf8 ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: ransomware on z

at the pump to capture the card details since chip and NFC card reads are at least tough to capture. Or perhaps the attacker just disabled the chip reader so that the cardholder would be "encouraged" to swipe instead. (Up to you, but I wouldn't swipe any cards nowadays.) — Timothy

Re: ransomware on z

Tony Thigpen wrote: > And, that I can agree with. Especially when the admin stores passwords >in their browser. Yes, but not required. If an attacker inserts a keylogger or gets an adequate view of the keyboard it's probably "game over." — Timothy Sipples Senior Architec

Re: ransomware on z

Responding primarily to Tony, I'll just say that when an adversary (internal or external) gains control over the PC that the privileged storage administrator uses, particularly when there's no true multi-factor authentication in the loop, then it's probably "game over." ————— Timot

Channelized I/O WAS: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

al way? — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Channelized I/O WAS: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

s.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5709.html — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Additional IBM Physical Tape Option: TS7700+TS4300

in its 18U configuration). The IBM TS7700 with IBM TS4500 Tape Attach configuration is still available (of course!) if you'd like a much larger, much more capacious physical tape configuration. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystem

Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows

data set vernacular. * Please use (properly configured) FTPS — FTP with TLS — if you use FTP. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com --

U.S. Federal Reserve Launches FedNow

. FedNow has a design goal of continuous service. FedNow is for "small" transactions. The systemwide per transaction limit is currently $500,000, although participants can choose a lower limit if they wish. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cyb

zEDC compression questions (Was: zDEC...)

And/or they have more margin for errors in their batch cycles. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN s

Re: z/OSMF

will.) All IBM did was drop one installation method in z/OS 2.5 and only for orders placed after January, 2022. IBM gave advance notice it would. IBM offered delivery of z/OS 2.5 with that installation option to any licensee that cared to order it by January, 2022, and at no additional charg

Re: z/OSMF

higher. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: z/OSMF

n 2023. Over that period IBM increased the minimum orderable CP capacity by ~12.4% per year (compounded), plus SRB. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp..

Re: z/OSMF

ost standard, at no additional charge. See here for details: https://ibm.biz/z15SRBWhitePaper<http://ibm.biz/z15SRBWhitePaper> That said it's typically a "really good idea" to configure machines running z/OS with at least one zIIP — and not just for z/OSMF but for myriad other reas

Re: SMTP and OAuth

://colinpaice.blog/2023/02/21/sending-an-email-from-z-os/ For more information on the IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python please visit: https://www.ibm.com/products/open-enterprise-python-zos There are probably some other options, but this list is a good starter set I think. — Timothy Sipples Senior

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

://zosopentools.link/docs — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: The new requirement for Certificates to communicate with IBM -- A Journey

ation's security requirements but (hopefully obviously!) encourage you to do so. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---

Re: Why can't a LinuxONE run z/OS

and IBM LinuxONE Emperor 4 (3931-LA1) and see many identical feature codes but also many differences. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---

Re: Updated UNIX certification WAS: z/OS 3.1: Now UNIX® Certified

S 3.1 has already passed them. Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Timothy has been conspicuously quiet on this topic since his initial >announcement of UNIX® Certification. I didn't have anything important enough to add, but I appreciate the implication that you missed me. :-) — Timothy Sipples S

z/OS Authorized Code Scanner Webcast

ave any favorite "freebies." This time I'm focusing on free security-related stuff for your mainframe whether it's for z/OS, Linux, or any other mainframe operating system. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/L

Re: z/OS Comm Server - LACP?

a z/VM guest it should benefit from z/VM's support for link aggregation, so that's another possible option. ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.

z/OS 3.1: Now UNIX® Certified

z/OS 3.1 has already earned its UNIX® certification... https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3693.htm — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

hoices now — then some later add "on premises" machines. Some are banks, some are not. While there are some common patterns, each new mainframe customer has their own unique needs. Thank you all for your support. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, a

IBM z16 Wins Red Dot and iF Design Awards

The IBM z16 is winning design awards (plural)... https://medium.com/design-ibm/ibm-zsystems-wins-red-dot-if-design-awards-36ca139783f5 — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: Card processing application

Worldline's Cardlink II is a(nother) card management services application. Cardlink II's customer base tends to be concentrated in Asia-Pacific. — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: Do you need a coupling facility to implement DVIPA?

nny how we carried forward the z/OS 1.2 (and prior) caveat. That bit of text doesn't seem too important for Version 9.0.5 of WAS for z/OS, does it? :-) ————— Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@

Webcast on Hyper Protect & LinuxONE Cloud

-subscription Or if you'd just like the calendar entry (.ics file) then that's available here: https://ibm.biz/hyperprotect0421 — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

Re: Tape compression and modern encryption facilities.

hat was the most recent IBM physical tape drive with parallel (bus/tag), ESCON, or FICON ports on it?] — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific si

Re: IBM z16 Model A02 Announcement

. They open up some interesting new deployment options. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS 3.1 Preview Webcast (Asia-Pacific Friendly Time)

Colin Paice wrote: >Will the charts be available to us? Yes, after the Webcast. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.

z/OS 3.1 Preview Webcast (Asia-Pacific Friendly Time)

suited for countries in Australasia (India to New Zealand approximately), but you're welcome to join from elsewhere. To sign up for the Webcast please visit: https://ibm.biz/apac-webinar-subscription<http://ibm.biz/apac-webinar-subscription> — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect D

Re: IBM utility to print an arbitrary block/track on a volume

be (z/OS Data Set Encryption), then the track will be particularly unintelligible. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com

DevOps and Hybrid Cloud: A Q+A With Rosalind Radcliffe

TechChannel has an interesting article on enterprise DevOps with z/OS: https://techchannel.com/Enterprise/03/2023/devops-hybrid-cloud-rosalind-radcliffe — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp

Re: CF links and non-IBM machines (historical)

rms in its catalogs. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instr

Re: Ransomware in VSAM and DB2

s.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248511.pdf — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

SNA and CHPID OSE Details (Was: Looking for Beta Clients)

ters, switches) to provide those ports. Your networking gear won't provide CHPID type OSE, but EE doesn't need OSE. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE,

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

are not a technical limitations. You/they can do all of that for CF workloads straightforwardly. But those "technobusiness" factors might explain some reticence if you're observing any. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystem

Re: zOS 3.1 - zosmf

ations that depend on z/OSMF. I think it's getting past time to roll out that particular standard, included, no additional charge feature of z/OS. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.i

Re: Running a Coupling Facility using a CP for a test Parallel Sysplex 0 anyh gotcha's?

a single CF could topple over and/or require a planned outage even without anything else going offline, but even with one CF the "Parallel Sysplex in a box" is rather good. 4. Check for and apply all relevant firmware, z/OS, and middleware updates (of course). — — — — — Timothy Sipples S

IBM Webinar on OpenShift with Secure Execution

them from time to time, especially when I'll be on. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

New Mainframe Freebie: Python AI Toolkit for z/OS

available for a fee. IBM plans to open this repository on February 24, 2023. Enjoy! — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@

Re: LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's

ate their shiny new mainframe server — their very first server of any type." We'll eventually figure it out together, and it's mostly fun. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems

Re: LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's

cables, power, and switches. And if you're nervous about putting all GKLM instances in one type of deployment environment — I can understand that — then just spread GKLM across two environments. zCX is an excellent one. — — — —

PDS compression needs a new name - defoam? unfoam? degas? I hope someone has a better idea!

sion ACOMP - advanced compression QCOMP - quantum compression No, I don't know what quantum compression would be. It's just an example. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@

RLSE - A question about releasing unused tracks in a DASD dataset

mour alluded to this already, but (for future reference at least) here's how you can drive ISPF commands from batch programs: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-use-ispf-batch — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE,

Webinar: Integrating zSystems/LinuxONE with SIEMs and DAMs

at an Asia-Pacific friendly time: about lunchtime in East Asia. If the time works for you and you're interested, great, please join! We'll have some time to answer questions you pose to us in the chat window. To register please visit: https://ibm.biz/apac-webinar-subscription — — — — — Timothy Sipples

Re: TKE and USB filesystem

a PC, Mac, or other device. Am I missing anything? — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

is to run it on z/OS, connect to z/OS via OpenSSH (using PuTTY or just about any other SSH client), and then start a "loopback" or other TN3270E session within your SSH terminal session. And then you can use ISPF (etc.) via SSH. (Got all that?) — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digi

Re: Crypto Express question

g" isn't a viable option, not if you want even trivial security. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com --

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sk us questions, but I believe this Webcast will be recorded if you want to replay it at a more reasonable hour in your time zone. To sign up please visit: https://ibm.biz/apac-webinar-subscription — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM z

Re: zOS 1.13 (really) how copy MVS loadmod from ZFS to PDSE

ry SR6 FP36. If that works, great. If not, try SR5 FP41 next. And so on. I'm assuming any z10 minimum processor level requirement was introduced at a Service Refresh boundary, and that's probably a reasonable assumption. Please let us know how it goes if you head down any of these paths. — — — —

Re: Pass Phrases

mptions that passwords are up to 8 characters long and can't be passphrases. I think those issues are already well traveled with MFA. * Don't use Legacy PassTickets. — — — — — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM zSystems/LinuxONE, Asia-Paci

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