Re: APAR PTF Relationship.

2006-03-10 Thread Werner Kuehnel
Howard, what I always have on my desk is Appendix A (Component IDs for Elements in z/OS) from Program Directory of my z/OS. Take the component id from APAR and look up the id in Appendix A. The last column shows the RETAIN release, which is the 3 chars id listed in APARs. Werner Howard

Re: HDS backup process

2006-03-10 Thread TISLER Zaromil
Ron, Are you using the BCM (Business Continuity Manager) Host software, or the archaic PPRC commands? As a GDPS PPRC site I believe we are stuck to PPRC commands. Zaromil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: APAR PTF Relationship.

2006-03-10 Thread Jim McAlpine
If you use Shopzseries to download your service then you can just specify the apar number and Shopzseries will select the correct ptf for your system. Jim McAlpine On 3/9/06, Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an APAR number and I would like to know how to relate this to a PTF

Re: HDS backup process

2006-03-10 Thread John Ticic
-- snip -- Ron, Are you using the BCM (Business Continuity Manager) Host software, or the archaic PPRC commands? As a GDPS PPRC site I believe we are stuck to PPRC commands. -- snip - By default yes. You can write your own scripts, and could possibly intergrate the BCM commands into GDPS. I

Re: b14

2006-03-10 Thread Big Iron
If you are seeing an SB14 abend, there is usually a message IEC217I issued which provides more information on the cause of the problem. Bill Neal Eckhardt wrote: On 9 Mar 2006 00:38:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a problem,when i edit some PDS member they tell me i/o error ,can

Re: FACILITY CLASS profile ALTER access required for BMC RECOVER UTILITY for VSAM?

2006-03-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On 3/9/2006 12:42 AM, Bruce Hewson wrote: To Shane, Walt and Chris, Because it is the combination of AUDITOR + RACF + ACCESS(ALTER) = many questions We are asking BMC for more explanation. My reading of the manual supplied to me did not give any indication that ACCESS levels other than ALTER

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On 3/9/2006 3:47 PM, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: How can I start a subtask under another userid ? Currently I make an ATTACH DISP=NO RACINIT CREATE copy the ACEE to TCBSENV and aSTATUS RESET,ND seems to have no effect Off-hand it seems like that would work, if you

Re: HDS backup process

2006-03-10 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
John, Too true, but there's nothing to stop you using BCM for Shadowimage in a GDPS environment. In regards to the original question, let me have the weekend to think of it in the context of a GDPS/PPRC environment with BCM. I'm assuming a USP for the storage. Ron -Original Message-

Re: Tape stacking, media conversion and data archival past end of mainframe

2006-03-10 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Len, How about storing them as Binary files on NFS mounted SATA? You can access from Mainframe or Open System. You choose whether to store metadata and file layouts with the files, or convert it to ASCII on the way out. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Tape stacking, media conversion and data archival past end of mainframe

2006-03-10 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron and Jenny Hawkins Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 7:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Tape stacking, media conversion and data archival past end of mainframe Len, How

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Walt wrote: The system does not provide propagation of the ACEE to subtasks during ATTACH except for servers using WLM message queueing to process work requests. You will have to provide that propagation yourself, or ensure that your code avoids multiple levels of subtasking. I'm no security

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi I'm no security expert, but the impression I get from other products that do security checking on behalf of other users, is that, as someone earlier posted, a RACROUTE is performed using the subject's userid. It seems inappropriate to have to muck with the TCB. You are propably

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 8 Mar 2006 to 9 Mar 2006 (#2006-68)

2006-03-10 Thread Coen Wessels
Hi, You can also use the SRCHFOR command (since z/OS V1.6 ?) within a library, then do a SORT PROMPT, and then go down to the members which don't have the PROMPT. Regards, Date:Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:16:24 -0500 From:Robert Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USING ISPF OPTION 3.14 to

Re: Tape stacking, media conversion and data archival past end of mainframe

2006-03-10 Thread Rugen, Len
Yes, I've found that my past problems with COPYCAT were either corrected or due to user error. COPYCAT wasn't cooperating with our SMS managed 3590 somewhere in the forgotten past and I hadn't tried it again. I used a output unit that was recognized by the ACS to set data class and it works.

Re: Any products that let you ignore certain messages?

2006-03-10 Thread Ray Mullins
Sí, yo comprendo, creo que si. Ass/u/me/ing you're just looking for precedent, and for messages your product issues... Many C/C++ compilers have a #pragma option (varies from compiler to compiler, of course) that can suppress (and then unsuppress) messages. I have had to use it before to

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Ray Mullins
This may have changed... But no. The very first SVC screening routine I wrote was to propagate TCBSENV because of this very situation. Contact me off-list for details. Best regards, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Tape stacking, media conversion and data archival past end of mainframe

2006-03-10 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
John, Sometimes we have to think outside of the nine dots :) Now, as to the medium to use. I don't really care. In my opinion, all data should be periodically copied to new media at least every two years. This maybe necessary for media like tape, but does it really apply to disk. The data

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On 3/10/2006 9:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm no security expert, but the impression I get from other products that do security checking on behalf of other users, is that, as someone earlier posted, a RACROUTE is performed using the subject's userid. It seems inappropriate to have to

Re: Any products that let you ignore certain messages?

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Ray Mullins said: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:08:05 -0800 Many C/C++ compilers have a #pragma option (varies from compiler to compiler, of course) that can suppress (and then unsuppress) messages. I Sometimes allowing the programmer to control the severity of

IMS -- Old Manual

2006-03-10 Thread James Chappell
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction I'm look for a copy of IMS/VS Low-Level Code/Continuity Check DL/I OS/VS Program Reference and Operations Manual The last manual number that I can find for LLC/CC was SH20-9047 Jim Chappell 503 745-7841 503 349-5603(Cell)

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Walt Farrell said: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:53:09 -0500 He is trying to establish a different security environment within his server, in which all requests made by the system need to be processed as a different user. He is not making a request on behalf of

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Wayne Driscoll
When the security server checks for authorization, the following is used: 1 - The ACEE passed in the parmlist. 2 - If above is zero, the ACEE pointed to in TCBSENV 3 - If above is zero, the ACEE pointed to in ASXBSENV As Walt mentioned, ACEE's are not propagated (in retrospect, might not have

Re: Any products that let you ignore certain messages?

2006-03-10 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Right, I've seen that C #pragma thing. That's exactly what I'm talking about. I'll take a look at it again. It is our own messages I'm talking about, not the invoked compilers, and as you imply, it's probably most relevant to warning messages, because things like can't open input dataset

DB2 for z/OS encryption

2006-03-10 Thread Harry Riedel
Due to SOX and VISA security regulations, my company needs to encrypt credit card sales data being sored in DB2 tables. We have tried both IBM's Encryption for IMS DB2 product along with ASPG's Megacryption. Can anyone recommend another vendor's product to encrypt DB2 data - preferably at the

Re: DB2 for z/OS encryption

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Jacobs
We wrote a DB2 fieldproc exit that calls ICSF services to encrypt/decrypt DB2 table data at the column level. It wasn't too hard to write. Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Inc. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry Riedel

Re: Any products that let you ignore certain messages?

2006-03-10 Thread Craddock, Chris
It is our own messages I'm talking about, not the invoked compilers, and as you imply, it's probably most relevant to warning messages, because things like can't open input dataset are hard to ignore. For functions (programs) running on our infrastructure, every function return passes through

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On 3/10/2006 11:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a recent note, Walt Farrell said: Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:53:09 -0500 He is trying to establish a different security environment within his server, in which all requests made by the system need to be processed as a different user.

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On 3/10/2006 11:08 AM, Wayne Driscoll wrote: As Walt mentioned, ACEE's are not propagated (in retrospect, might not have been the best choice, but its way to late in the game to change). We changed it in the WLM server environment, where we felt we could safely make such a change. The

Re: Any products that let you ignore certain messages?

2006-03-10 Thread Charles Mills
Sometimes allowing the programmer to control the severity of selected messages by specific message code. Good idea, hadn't thought of that. Thanks. Maybe we can turn eights into fours as well as turning fours into zeroes. if this capability is provided in PARM (one plausible implementation) it

Re: IMS -- Old Manual

2006-03-10 Thread Ray Mullins
Have you asked on IMS-L? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Chappell Sent: Friday March 10 2006 08:00 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IMS -- Old Manual Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction

Re: OAM: DB2 required?

2006-03-10 Thread R.S.
Jousma, David wrote: All, I'm trying to figure something out here. We have OAM running to support our 3494 and VTS tape libraries. However, I cannot see where we have done anything to enable OAM's use of DB2. Is it possible that OAM can be used without DB2? We don't any 3995's installed, and

Re: DB2 for z/OS encryption

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Horein
We use a company called Protegrity - We went live in production not long ago on MLK's birthday. They have a piece called DTP that allows transfers between z/OS DB2 and Open Systems that we use. we use a combination of views/triggers/UDFs in DB2. I believe views are used as well on the smaller

Hacking Again

2006-03-10 Thread Gary Green
Anyone know the platform of the system that was hacked? Inquiring minds want to know. ;) http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=181502 672 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: DB2 for z/OS encryption

2006-03-10 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/10/2006 10:41:11 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Encryption for IMS DB2 product along with ASPG's Megacryption. Can anyone recommend another vendor's product to encrypt DB2 data - preferably at the column level rather than encrypting the whole

Re: Health Checker message automation

2006-03-10 Thread Andrew McIntyre
Hey Sam, nice OPS REXX. However, I couldn't resist posting the NetView code to do the exact same thing. Mine is somewhat shorter I have to say, plus it only gets invoked once for the WTO or MLWTO where yours is actually getting invoked for each line of a MLWTO. AT trap (3 lines): IF MSGID =

PSP Upgrade Set name for z9 ?

2006-03-10 Thread Chase, John
Will be starting out with z/OS 1.5, then upgrading to z/OS 1.7. TIA, -jc- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: PSP Upgrade Set name for z9 ?

2006-03-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:08:22 -0600, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will be starting out with z/OS 1.5, then upgrading to z/OS 1.7. UPGRADE: 2094DEVICE Be aware that this is really an add on to 2084DEVICE (z990), so you need to look at both. If you aren't currently using it, I highly

Re: PSP Upgrade Set name for z9 ?

2006-03-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:08:22 -0600, Chase, John wrote: Will be starting out with z/OS 1.5, then upgrading to z/OS 1.7. UPGRADE: 2094DEVICE Be aware that this is really an add on to 2084DEVICE

Re: Tape stacking, media conversion and data archival past end of mainframe

2006-03-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/09/2006 at 06:16 PM, Len Rugen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm wondering if mainframe data on 3590's could be accessed in the future from the AIX side even after the mainframe is gone? Convert to AWS and use Hercules? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Our SAP/R3 Conversion

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I promised I would report on our SAP/R3 conversion off of our mainframe to our sister company's RS6000 box in Pennsylvania. Last Wednesday evening we shut down all of our CICSs and made them read only. We converted all of the files needed to the proper format, and FTP'd them to our sister

Re: USING ISPF OPTION 3.14 to EXCLUDE MEMBERS THAT HAVE THE SEARCH WORD

2006-03-10 Thread Jeff Horenstein
Bob, If you have FileAid or something similar that would work. If not, I have some assm rtns that I wrote many, many yrs ago, that I can share if you want. Jeff -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: HDS backup process

2006-03-10 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:13:20 +0800, Ron and Jenny Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too true, but there's nothing to stop you using BCM for Shadowimage in a GDPS environment. In regards to the original question, let me have the weekend to think of it in the context of a GDPS/PPRC environment with

Re: HDS backup process

2006-03-10 Thread Dennis Leong
Apologies if you have already seen this posting. I'm having problems seeing posting as I only view thru the News group. I have NOMAIL set so I do not get email for any postings. I'm not sure if I also need to post to news group. Since we are not able to purchase something like FDR Instant,

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Richard Tsujimoto wrote: I'm no security expert, but the impression I get from other products that do securitychecking on behalf of other users, is that, as someone earlier posted, a RACROUTE is performed using the subject's userid. It seems inappropriate to have to muck with the TCB.

IBM List of FMID's

2006-03-10 Thread Howard Rifkind
At one time I had a url which pointed to an IBM web site where you could find all the FMID's. Would any one remember or have that url. Thanks. - Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

Re: IBM List of FMID's

2006-03-10 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/10/2006 8:58:52 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At one time I had a url which pointed to an IBM web site where you could find all the FMID's. Would any one remember or have that url. No but google'd IBM FMIDs and first hit is CST!

Re: Hacking Again

2006-03-10 Thread Timothy Sipples
The State of New Hampshire had a system with malware installed -- a single Microsoft Windows server -- that was processing payments for government agencies, including motor vehicles. Those payment records were compromised. This news broke a couple weeks ago.