Starting with IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH 1.3, or z/OS OpenSSH 2.2, you need
to have ICSF running for /dev/random support.   A crypto card is not
required.  This is because later versions of OpenSSH wisely do not support
"ssh rand helper" any longer.

But all that use OpenSSH on z/OS should run ICSF with CPACF, since it will
save you a bunch of CPU cycles.

See on of the z/OS OpenSSH "Quick Install" Guides here (depending on your
version):
http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/coz_index.html


Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:05 AM, John McKown <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 3:15 PM, scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Guys:
> >
> > I have a SSH question, we dont have a ICSF , do i need one to do SSH ? We
> > want to do scp from Windows to
> > z/OS  . I want stepping thru the ICSF stc doc and read about 'head
> > 'dev/random' and its not working returning an error
> >
>
> ​I am running SSH on z/OS 1.12 without having ICSF running. It is a bit
> more CPU intensive. In this case, the "/dev/random" device does not work,
> but SSH basically doesn't use it in this case. At least, that has been my
> experience.​
>
>
>
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
>
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