Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:06:39 +0800, David Crayford wrote:

They seem to trust Amazon EC2 to deliver mission critical systems. Is
this a trend or a flash in the pan?

I don't have an issue with anyone using FOSS. Software that is - trusting 
confidential user/client data to companies subject to the draconian USA data 
seizure laws is lunacy. Even European hosting doesn't secure the backups on the 
US mainland.
And yes I'm aware the the UK (and Aussie) governments are no better and 
certainly in cahoots with respect to things like Prism and XKeyscore.

Unfortunately Scott McNealy was right all along - just took the rest of a while 
to catch on.

Shane ...

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Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Smith
Shane Ginnane wrote, re use of Amazon EC2 to deliver mission critical systems:
I don't have an issue with anyone using FOSS. Software that is - trusting 
confidential user/client data to companies subject to the draconian USA data 
seizure laws is lunacy. Even European hosting doesn't secure the backups on 
the US mainland.
And yes I'm aware the the UK (and Aussie) governments are no better and 
certainly in cahoots with respect to things like Prism and XKeyscore.

Unfortunately Scott McNealy was right all along - just took the rest of a 
while to catch on.

Indeed. The issue with EC2 and the like isn't capability or reliability, it's 
security. Protecting the data yourself outside the cloud-never letting 
unprotected data into their network-is the only real assurance you can have.

...phsiii

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Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread John Gilmore
Phil Smith wrote:

begin extract
Indeed. The issue with EC2 and the like isn't capability or
reliability, it's security. Protecting the data yourself outside the
cloud-never letting unprotected data into their network-is the only
real assurance you can have.
end extract/

I want to add, with as much urgency as I can muster, that
high-security encryption must be used to provide this protection.  No
encryption scheme endorsed by Five Eyes provides any protection
against them or indeed against similar Chinese groups.

I, for one, judge that the intentions of the NSA are benign; but if it
ever was that is no longer the issue.  The technology for breaking
these 'recommended' schemes is now so widely diffused that they
provide only the illusion and not the substance of security.

Paranoia is almost always dysfunctional.  In this area it is not.   We
have all been far too naif for far too long.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes:
 I want to add, with as much urgency as I can muster, that
 high-security encryption must be used to provide this protection.  No
 encryption scheme endorsed by Five Eyes provides any protection
 against them or indeed against similar Chinese groups.

 I, for one, judge that the intentions of the NSA are benign; but if it
 ever was that is no longer the issue.  The technology for breaking
 these 'recommended' schemes is now so widely diffused that they
 provide only the illusion and not the substance of security.

 Paranoia is almost always dysfunctional.  In this area it is not.   We
 have all been far too naif for far too long.

it isn't just a single homogeneous entity. 

Spies Like Us
http://www.investingdaily.com/17693/spies-like-us/

Private contractors like Booz Allen now reportedly garner 70 percent
of the annual $80 billion intelligence budget and supply more than
half of the available manpower.

... snip ...

How Booz Allen Hamilton Swallowed Washington
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-23/visualizing-how-booz-allen-hamilton-swallowed-washington

increasing privatizing of intelligence by for-profit companies focused
on ever increasing quarterly profits. News is that spying on ex's is so
common they even have name for it ... why wouldn't for-profit employees
also be involved in industrial espionage? BAH case
http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2012/02/08/booz-allen-air-force-debarment.aspx

note in the wake of this Success of Failure incident, congress put the
agency on probation and not allowed to manage its own efforts ... but
that may have just been ploy for further privatizng.
http://www.govexec.com/excellence/management-matters/2007/04/the-success-of-failure/24107/

even some IBM connection, the head of IBM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
leaves and becomes chairman of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlyle_Group
which then does private equity buyout of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton

slightly related
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#55 NSA foils much internet encryption
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#56 NSA foils much internet encryption

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R744STRC SMF Field

2013-09-21 Thread Uwe Oswald
Hi @all,

hope someone can help me. I got stuck on a problem with a SMF field. Have 
someone ever tried to analyze a SMF74 ST 4 (Coupling Facility Activity) record. 
I do not see the value 5425 as a long floating point value in the record in any 
field. Can someone point me into the right direction?

HELP…

Thx
Uwe

Here is the RMF CF Report output

* TOP OF DATA **
   C O U P L I N G   F A C I L I T Y   A C

   z/OS V1R13  SYSPLEX PRDPLEX DATE 09/14/2013
   RPT VERSION V1R13 RMF   TIME 05.59.38

  -
   COUPLING FACILITY NAME = RZAC1P1
   TOTAL SAMPLES(AVG) =   897  (MAX) =   898  (MIN) =   896
  -
   COUPLING  FACILITY  USAGE  SUMMA
  -
   STRUCTURE SUMMARY
  -

  % OF % OF% OF
  STRUCTURE   ALLOC   CF  #ALL CF
   TYPE   NAME  STATUS CHGSIZESTOR  REQREQ UTIL

   LIST   DB2D_SCA  ACTIVE 33M 0.2 5425 0.5 0.4

The bold marked value is R744STRC from my point of view.

In ERBSHOW I see this block.

  #13:  +:  C4C2F2C4 6DE2C3C1 40404040 40404040  *DB2D_SCA*
+0010:  CB3EBAB7 4D1D6525 0180 9651  *ô ¬¼( Á  Øoé*
+0020:  0082     *   b*
+0030:   4260    *â-  *
+0040:   4260    *â-  *
+0050:  EA15  032E1347   *  ²å*
+0060:       **
+0070:       **
+0080:       **
+0090:       **
+00A0:       **


SMF Field:
Offset
D   H
52 34 R744STRC 8 l_float  The total number of IXLLIST, IXLCACHE, or IXLLOCK
requests made. This field will not necessarily equal the sum
or R744SSRC, R744SARC, and R744SSTA due to internal
processing. Use of the batch unlock function can produce
large discrepancies because R744STRC is incremented for
each lock being released, but only one coupling facility
operation is executed.

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Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Smith
John Gilmore wrote:
I want to add, with as much urgency as I can muster, that
high-security encryption must be used to provide this protection.  No
encryption scheme endorsed by Five Eyes provides any protection
against them or indeed against similar Chinese groups.

I, for one, judge that the intentions of the NSA are benign; but if it
ever was that is no longer the issue.  The technology for breaking
these 'recommended' schemes is now so widely diffused that they
provide only the illusion and not the substance of security.

Paranoia is almost always dysfunctional.  In this area it is not.   We
have all been far too naif for far too long.

WellAES is well-vetted by independent cryptographers, and I'm still 
pretty comfortable with many times the heat-death of the universe to crack. 
Nothing is uncrackable if you posit unlimited computing power and time, after 
all.

The recent Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation fiasco is a 
different kettle of hamsters, but it certainly serves as an object lesson in 
considering whether recommended IVs are a good idea or not.

...phsiii (I r not a kryptografer, but I work with a bunch!)

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Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread efinnell15
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/china-surprises-computing-world-milky-way-2-supercomputer-163928852.html

In a message dated 09/21/13 13:07:22 Central Daylight Time, p...@voltage.com 
writes:
Nothing is uncrackable if you posit unlimited computing power and time, after 
all. 

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Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread John Gilmore
A chacun son goût!  Anyone who judges AES adequate to his needs is of
course free to use it.

I will, however, add that cracking by enumeration of cases is not what
I had in mind.  In such terms even DES is impressive, but they are
irrelevant.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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Re: ICSF Without Crypto Card?

2013-09-21 Thread R.S.

W dniu 2013-09-20 16:00, Lloyd Fuller pisze:

No.  The crypto cards preceded the z machines.  They were available as part of 
the 9672s.  There are several different ones with slightly different 
capabilities.  They are all on the I/O bus so they are slightly slower than the 
CPACF hardware for the same operation, but they may be more secure depending 
upon use.
  
CPACF is what was added with the z990.  This is a specialized processor that you access by issuing specific instructions (the K... ones).  This processor has been updated with almost every new z machine.  How many CPACF processors are available also varies by model.
  
Lloyd


Yes, I knew that, but my point was to start consideration from z99o and 
exclude older models. Not to say the premiere of the cards was with 
premiere of z990. Did I fail? It seem's so, English is not my native 
language.

BTW: The information you wrote is already available in the thread.
BTW2: The cards were available as part of G5 and G6 not whole 9672 
family. ;-)


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Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread Phil Smith
John Gilmore wrote:
A chacun son goût!  Anyone who judges AES adequate to his needs is of
course free to use it.

I will, however, add that cracking by enumeration of cases is not what
I had in mind.  In such terms even DES is impressive, but they are
irrelevant.

Do tell...?

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Re: Unused variables

2013-09-21 Thread Clark Morris
On 20 Sep 2013 08:12:42 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main John Gilmore
wrote:

The idea of eliminating unreferenced variables in COBOL record
declarations is of course absurd, and fulminations against it are at
best otiose.  It is always possible to construct quietist arguments
against change, any and all change; but this straw man is too
obviously so to very useful to careerist obstructionists.

Basically all COBOL can do is eliminate unreferenced 77 levels which
are independent (not in a structure and logically equivalent to 01
levels or records) and unused 01 (records) levels in Working-Storage.
This may also apply to LOCAL-STORAGE.  While fields within a record
may be unused, eliminating them changes the structure and can cause
problems.  In one sense are we straining at gnats in an era when
people send megabyte size pictures to each other over the Internet and
product files may contain 1 or more pictures of each product?  I agree
with people that crud should be eliminated but changing record
structures which may be used in multiple programs can have interesting
results.

Clark Morris

We are left with working-storage and local-storage declarations for
variables that then go unused.  In many cases they were once used, but
maintenance changes have made them redundant.  In any case they may be
eliminated safely, and they should be when an occasion to do so
arises.  They are individually ugly; and they add to source-program
clutter, which is substantial in old COBOL programs.

Whether a major undertaking, a formal project or the like, for their
elimination is jusitified is another, very different question.  I
think not.  All optimizing compilers eliminate dead code, sequences of
instructions that can never be executed, and dead variables, which are
never referenced.

Some compilers and backends are better at these operations than
others.  The current IBM C/C++ and PL/I backend, for example, detects
almost all aliasing schemes and even reflects these 'obscured'
references in its XREF output.  The current COBOL compiler does a
modest but adequate job of this when full optimization is used.  There
is therefore almost no resource-savings argument to be made for a
campaign to eliminate unreferenced variables; and further
bureaucratization of this particular programming milieu is highly
undesirable.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA


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Re: Unused variables

2013-09-21 Thread efinnell15
Yeah, might have to go back and read some of those old backups for legal or 
otherwise unplanned situations. Probably be on the bottom of a 'to do' list as 
we covert to JAVA.



In a message dated 09/21/13 18:18:57 Central Daylight Time, 
cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca writes:
This may also apply to LOCAL-STORAGE.  While fields within a record 
may be unused, eliminating them changes the structure and can cause 
problems.  In one sense are we straining at gnats in an era when 
people send megabyte size pictures to each other over the Internet and 
product files may contain 1 or more pictures of each product?  I agree 

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Re: List out all Indirect catalogued datasets

2013-09-21 Thread retired mainframer
It seems to me you would want to do this for all the program product
datasets, whether indirectly catalogued or not.

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:: We have our program products currently on the respack and they are
:: indirectly catalogued .As a part of the OS upgrade , we are trying to
:: separate them from the respack and put them on a new volume ..Then have
:: the
:: new volume hard coded in the catalog using DEF NVSAM .
::
:: On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Lizette Koehler
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::
::  Can you explain what you are looking to do with the information?
:: 
::  A LISTC command will list the information but you need to parse it to
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Re: Allocation test

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20130919105935.d48c3c35881ab4db81c1e...@gmx.net, on 09/19/2013
   at 10:59 AM, nitz-...@gmx.net nitz-...@gmx.net said:

that confirms that there is a bug somewhere in allocation.

No; there are too many other variables.

The same job should result in the same allocation on two different
lpars,

Maybe, if they are identical, which is unlikely.

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Re: IEBCOPY - MOVE

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In
2372770761776465.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu,
on 09/19/2013
   at 01:19 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za
said:

Ok. If you say so. What was the first IBM utility?

I don't know[1] what the first IBM utility was that did a dynamic
allocation, but it wasn't IEHMOVE, because IEHMOVE did no such
thing[2]. IEHMOVE was documented as requiring a DD statement with
unit, volume and disposition; it used OPENJ to access individual data
sets on the volume.

[1] I suspect that it was SMP.

[2] In fact, dynamic allocation didn't yet exist.
 
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Re: Allocation test

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20130919103311.ca8dd8fb03992fe99...@gmx.net, on 09/19/2013
   at 10:33 AM, nitz-...@gmx.net nitz-...@gmx.net said:

SPACE=(TRK,(1,0,0)),

Does your first track start with an EOF? If not, what is in the first
block[1]? SMS? What does your ACS specify for it?

[1] I'd use AMASPZAP to dump it, but use whatever you're
comfortable with.
 
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Re: Allocation test

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9823956692690441.wa.mathwstittbellsouth@listserv.ua.edu, on
09/19/2013
   at 08:42 AM, Matthew Stitt mathwst...@bellsouth.net said:

I also recall discussions about the minimum block size for datasets
(disk and tape).  It seems there was some magic about 20 bytes maybe
being close to the minimum.

18. Tape, to distinguish a bad record from noise in the gap..
 
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Re: Allocation test

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3097304782371193.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
09/19/2013
   at 11:26 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:

We have evidence in this thread that what that manual says is untrue.

We don't need this thread to see that what the quoted text says is
untrue; there is no physical end-of-file character for CKD DASD,
only a record with 0 data length. 

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Re: Allocation test

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4360602823278101.wa.doughenryusbank@listserv.ua.edu, on
09/19/2013
   at 12:17 PM, Doug Henry doug_he...@usbank.com said:

But if you do a valid allocation what the manual says is correct.

If you specify a valid allocation for a directory then what the manual
says about Ensured Data Integrity on New Allocations is irrelevant;
writing an EOF at the end has always been part of formatting a
directory. What SMS added was writing an EOF for a new PS allocation.

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Re: Allocation test

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In
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on 09/20/2013
   at 02:05 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said:

If we were still using real 3390s, I would suggest a track full 
of EOF records.

Why? The first should be enough.

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Re: Allocation test

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 523b395e.50...@valley.net, on 09/19/2013
   at 01:50 PM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net said:

I'm conflicted whether this should produce a JCL error.

I can't think of any circumstance in which I wouldn't want an error
message for an explicit DSORG=PO with a zero directory quantity on a
new allocation.

In any case, IBM should be persuaded to either produce a JCL error
or modify the directory build to write an EOF.

Directory build *does* write an EOF. The problem here is that there
was no directory build.

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Re: Allocation test

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 069f4b2c-987c-4e1a-9031-74b2a26a1...@yahoo.com, on 09/19/2013
   at 08:28 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said:

I guess this doesn't apply to br14 

The reference to OPEN isn't relevant to IEFBR14, but allocation works
the same regardless of what progam the EXEC statement specifies.

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Re: Allocation test

2013-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In
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on 09/20/2013
   at 12:14 AM, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net said:

I tried, unsuccessfully, four or five years ago to write an EOF
record with a non-zero key length but a zero data length, 

On what device?

and it failed with a permanent I/O error. 

What CSW status and sense data?

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Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread John Gilmore
No, Phil, it is not a question of my 'telling'.

I will repeat my point  just one more time.

No encryption scheme that the five eyes recommend should be used in
any circumstance in which you wish to be secure against them or those
of their competitors who also dispose of, in practical terms,
unlimited resources.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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Re: UK NHS £10bn project failure

2013-09-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
The link doesn't go there anymore.
I get top headlines only.
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