Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?

2012-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1250849277558111.wa.haroldberglasyahoo...@bama.ua.edu, on 03/03/2012 at 07:25 AM, Myname Is haroldberg...@yahoo.ca said: pardon the language, sir, but did u know that the jcl keyword UNIT=[/]n would create an internal text specification Yes. I also know that the Internalt Text Buffer

Re: Linkage tables

2012-03-04 Thread Peter Relson
Does anyone know how to display the linkage tables from an IPCS dump assuming I dump PCAUTH address space Summary Format will display a lot of information. If you literally want to display the linkage tables (both linkage first and linkage second if the ASN-and-LX-reuse facility is active),

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread Martin Packer
One experience from teleworking which should appeal to mainframers: By and large 3270 is the least demanding data stream - so TSO / ISPF goes fast even on broadband as crummy as mine. (It's all the other junk that runs really slowly when the wet string dries out.) Now I may be in a minority

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-04 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 3/3/2012 3:16 AM, Robert Prins wrote: Needlessly to say, when I bought a new PC for myself at the beginning of this year, and a new notebook for my wife, I stayed away as far as possible from HP. I don't know if my experience was an exception, but even if it was, that is no way to treat your

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com (Martin Packer) writes: One experience from teleworking which should appeal to mainframers: By and large 3270 is the least demanding data stream - so TSO / ISPF goes fast even on broadband as crummy as mine. (It's all the other junk that runs really slowly when the

JES2 STCCLASS and TSUCLASS - documented

2012-03-04 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
Folks Anyone know in which manual can I find the STCCLASS and TSUCLASS initialisation parameters documented please? Not in 1.12 JES2 Init Tuning. I suspect that they are synonymous with JOBCLASS(STC) and JOBCLASS(TSU). I have inherited support for a JES2 system that has STCCLASS and TSUCLASS

Re: JES2 STCCLASS and TSUCLASS - documented

2012-03-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Andrew Metcalfe wrote: Folks Anyone know in which manual can I find the STCCLASS and TSUCLASS initialisation parameters documented please? Not in 1.12 JES2 Init Tuning. I suspect that they are synonymous with JOBCLASS(STC) and JOBCLASS(TSU). I have inherited support for a JES2 system that

Re: JES2 STCCLASS and TSUCLASS - documented

2012-03-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Folks Anyone know in which manual can I find the STCCLASS and TSUCLASS initialisation parameters documented please? Not in 1.12 JES2 Init Tuning. I suspect that they are synonymous with JOBCLASS(STC) and JOBCLASS(TSU). I have inherited support for a JES2 system that has STCCLASS and

Re: JES2 STCCLASS and TSUCLASS - documented

2012-03-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Bob Rutledge wrote: Andrew Metcalfe wrote: Folks Anyone know in which manual can I find the STCCLASS and TSUCLASS initialisation parameters documented please? Not in 1.12 JES2 Init Tuning. I suspect that they are synonymous with JOBCLASS(STC) and JOBCLASS(TSU). I have inherited support for

Re: Linkage tables

2012-03-04 Thread Micheal Butz
PC NUMBER 2B00 The Following PC number is for LX or linkage index 0 as The high order 0's signify -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 8:32 AM To:

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-04 Thread Rob Schramm
I am sure that you could easily ask VAT Security... since the product offering is all about verifying the ability to subvert any interface to gain authorization. AFAIK VAT has already taken IBM for the trip to discover OS related vulnerabilities. Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread David Betten
One thing I'll add to that is that if your internet service periodially drops, it's a real pain if you're connected to a host 3270 session. For example, my wife primarally does email and web browsing while working from home. So if our internet signal drops for a few minutes and then comes back,

Re: Linkage tables

2012-03-04 Thread Ray Overby
Assuming this data is produced by a summary format in IPCS I believe the LX is 2B and the EX is 00. On 3/4/2012 11:46 AM, Micheal Butz wrote: PC NUMBER 2B00 The Following PC number is for LX or linkage index 0 as The high order 0's signify -Original

IPCS VSMDATA

2012-03-04 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi, I am trying to track some storage allocation thru IPCS using VSMDATA There are four data areas described by VSMDATA DQE (descriptor Queue element) FQE (free queue element) SPQE (subpool queue element) SPQA (subpool queue anchors) The DQE describes storage allocated

Re: Linkage tables

2012-03-04 Thread Micheal Butz
Got it Sent from my iPhone On Mar 4, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Ray Overby rayove...@comcast.net wrote: Assuming this data is produced by a summary format in IPCS I believe the LX is 2B and the EX is 00. On 3/4/2012 11:46 AM, Micheal Butz wrote: PC NUMBER 2B00 The

Re: JES2 STCCLASS and TSUCLASS - documented

2012-03-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 03/04/2012 11:29 AM, Bob Rutledge wrote: Bob Rutledge wrote: Andrew Metcalfe wrote: Folks Anyone know in which manual can I find the STCCLASS and TSUCLASS initialisation parameters documented please? Not in 1.12 JES2 Init Tuning. I suspect that they are synonymous with JOBCLASS(STC) and

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread Martin Packer
An interesting point Dave... ... For my system there's a session-management front end. Almost always this copes nicely with such drops. I suspect I'm paying a small response time penalty for it, though. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
A session manager on the mainframe (CL/Supersessions or equivalent functionality) is your friend! This protects you not only from remote failures but local glitches as well. The current screen from multiple logged-in applications is maintained by the session manager and unaffected by drop

Re: Why _TZ put times 7 minutes off?

2012-03-04 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 3/3/2012 12:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 10:39:32 +0100, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2012-03-03 07:34, Edward Jaffe pisze: IMHO, STP should be included in the price of the machine. Or at least STP light which would allow to use ETS (NTP). However it's NOT incluted. :-( I

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread Charles Mills
Amen to both points. I've been doing remote mainframe development since 1200 baud dial-up was state-of-the-art. You need almost no bandwidth at all for 3270. You can refresh an entire 3270 screen with at most 4K or so characters, and ISPF does a pretty clever job of minimizing the number of

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAFazsTAMA=tfqfn9fhcb+2wgnfy7pnhpzwp_0g579_wcsg6...@mail.gmail.com, on 03/03/2012 at 08:16 AM, Robert Prins robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com said: I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but here's a short story about customer service... It doesn't offend me, but we differ as to what constitutes good

Re: TINC?

2012-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAPD5F5qb7BRrpNErOPG9ZiLRs=9y3vwaxi6fhxquinhdove...@mail.gmail.com, on 03/01/2012 at 04:09 PM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com said: and it is correct, albeit in a Pickwickian sense, that OS/PCP had only a single partition; but it did support both transient and resident readers and

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4f510ab8.2070...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 03/02/2012 at 10:00 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: The subject line of this thread started off (in the other list) as Program FLIH. Then, you renamed it to, Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security! Having

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4f50f9bf.10...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 03/02/2012 at 08:47 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: A magic PFLIH technique is not substantially different, from an integrity standpoint, than a magic SVC except that the code gets control for EVERY interrupt ITYM every Program

Re: What is a dataset level NUMBER?

2012-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 072201ccf892$f7184ba0$e548e2e0$@mcn.org, on 03/02/2012 at 08:38 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: What is a dataset level *number*? Could it be part of the support for mandatory access control? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: TINC?

2012-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1330694818.18459.yahoomai...@web180909.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 03/02/2012 at 05:26 AM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net said: I did not see the message that you are quoting below from Shmuel. We were running a printer from the spooler. I thought that it was a model 1401 printer, The

Re: IKT100I USERID CANCELED immediately after TN3270 connection fail

2012-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4f529f6f.8090...@acm.org, on 03/03/2012 at 04:47 PM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: This sounds like a user training problem. Users should be taught in the scenario you describe to use EDIT on the new member name, within EDIT use COPY to pull in the old member contents, What does

Re: Writing article on telework/telecommuting

2012-03-04 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes: I've been doing remote mainframe development since 1200 baud dial-up was state-of-the-art. You need almost no bandwidth at all for 3270. You can refresh an entire 3270 screen with at most 4K or so characters, and ISPF does a pretty clever job of

Return code = X'14' from ATTACH JSTCB=YES

2012-03-04 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi, I got a return code of X'15' from ATTACH JSTCB=YES 14 Meaning: Program error. An authorized task that specified JSTCB=YES is not a job step task.

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-04 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Long ago, a friend had an IBM PS/2. The monitor failed. Being a mainframer, she called hardware support -- the same number she'd call for a broken mainframe. IBM promptly dispatched a CE to her house; he replaced the monitor, cleaned up any mess, and departed in his unmarked white van. More

Re: Return code = X'14' from ATTACH JSTCB=YES

2012-03-04 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 16:31:44 -0500 Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: :Hi, : : : :I got a return code of X'15' from ATTACH JSTCB=YES : : : : : : : : :14 : : : : : : :

Re: Return code = X'14' from ATTACH JSTCB=YES

2012-03-04 Thread Micheal Butz
Sorry was running under TESTAUTH SO EXEC PGM=IKJEF -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 4:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Return code = X'14' from ATTACH JSTCB=YES On

Re: Return code = X'14' from ATTACH JSTCB=YES

2012-03-04 Thread Micheal Butz
I ran it as command processor TESTAUTH ' ' CP And it worked -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Micheal Butz Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 5:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Return code = X'14' from

Re: Good source for relationship of opcodes, models, MACHINE() and ARCH()

2012-03-04 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Helpful info here: http://www.tachyonsoft.com/inst390o.htm If I had nothing better to do I would do a Web page with two tables: 1. Every mnemonic and the HLASM MACHINE() level at which it became available. Source would be HLASM OPTABLE(LIST). 2. Every model number and the corresponding

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 3/4/2012 10:24 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: The presence of SVC IGX00011 on z/OS systems *proves* that so-called magic SVCs that confer authority to their callers, The ESR's do notconfer authority to their callers, but rather invoke narrowly defined functions. The so-called magic

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 3/4/2012 10:28 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Speculative? Did you read what he quoted from Bill Fairchild's message? Yes. I read it before he quoted it. We don't even know the person's name or how long ago this happened (if at all). A lot can change in a decade. For the record, I

Re: IKT100I USERID CANCELED immediately after TN3270 connection fail

2012-03-04 Thread chen lucky
This thread has nothing to do with ISPF. I just want to know why my TSU address space was canceled duo to connection failure. But thank you all the same. I had checked following point that may be related to this problem. 1, JWT in SMFPRMxx 2, RECONLIM in TSOKEYxx 3, INACTIVE, KEEPINACTIVE and

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-04 Thread Linda Mooney
Greetings! This happened to me a good while back, but it's worth remembering. I had a Western Digital PC hard drive fail three weeks before its warranty ran out.  They replaced the drive, no problem, and with a larger capacity drive because the drive I had was no longer being made.

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-04 Thread Scott Ford
Linda, Wow...think that's great Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 5, 2012, at 1:14 AM, Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.net wrote: Greetings! This happened to me a good while back, but it's worth remembering. I had a Western

Re: [IBMTCP-L] IKT100I USERID CANCELED immediately after TN3270 connection fail

2012-03-04 Thread chen lucky
Alan, thank you. In this case but IKT100I, I did not get any message related to this problem around the time of disconnect. 2012/3/5 A.Watthey a.watt...@gmail.com Chen, It might be useful to see the mvs log around the time of the problem. The TCPIP messages and the TSO messages and the