Hmmm, I thought it was a hardware feature. tks 

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Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:22 AM
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Subject: Re: Cross-post from mvsoe - FOTS1842 problem renaming PRNG seedfile

ICSF is a software component of zOS. The latest release, HCR1B00, can be 
ordered from ShopZSeries and installed on your zOS 1.13 environment.

Mark Jacobs

> Dazzo, Matt <mailto:[email protected]>
> April 14, 2015 at 9:13 AM
> Our box does not have an ICSF, so not an option at this time.
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:56 AM
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> Subject: Re: Cross-post from mvsoe - FOTS1842 problem renaming PRNG 
> seedfile
>
> You might want to consider upgrading ICSF to HCR77A1 or higher. If you
> do you'll be able to use the hardware based random number generator even
> if your processor doesn't have CryptoExpress cards installed.
>
> Mark Jacobs
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> Mark Jacobs - Listserv <mailto:[email protected]>
> April 14, 2015 at 7:56 AM
> You might want to consider upgrading ICSF to HCR77A1 or higher. If you 
> do you'll be able to use the hardware based random number generator 
> even if your processor doesn't have CryptoExpress cards installed.
>
> Mark Jacobs
>
>
> Dazzo, Matt <mailto:[email protected]>
> April 14, 2015 at 7:51 AM
> We get this error intermittently on zos1.13. From my reading of the 
> IBM Ported tools book and some help from Dovetailed a possible 
> solution is to add environment variable _ZOS_SSH_PRNG_CMDS_TIMEOUT and 
> increase the time out value. For testing purposes I added 
> _ZOS_SSH_PRNG_CMDS_TIMEOUT=2000 to my user .profile. I then logoff and 
> log on, enter into omvs and enter the env command to see if the 
> variable is set. I do not see that variable in the list displayed. Am 
> I adding this correctly? How do I check to see if the new variable has 
> been set?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
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