The listserv has moved to a new ISP. And as such, if you want to post any
questions etc, you must first register on the website, when that is complete
you will then be able to post to your heart's content (as long as you follow
the 'rules). Email commands are not longer accepted
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Well the first item I need to disclose is that I work for a ISV that does offer
a Enterprise wide solution to Data Privacy.
BUT the thing I want to bring up is not that, BUT a cautionary note. While on
the surface JUST encrypting one item/key may seem relatively easy there are far
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A couple of things
1) The best way to go ahead with an instalation/advise that you are looking for
is to contact your local Compuware rep. He/she can then put you in contact with
some resources that can help (training, advise etc)
2) Also feel free in contacting our support desk. In north
Do you have Strobe?
If so this can be easier addressed by strobing this program
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As I head to the bomb shelter in preparation of the replies.
Downsview is actually still open, sort of. It is being used by Canadair for
final assembly of the Q-400 DASH.
So while the 'base' is not open (well there are still military presence there)
a runway still exists, and planes fly in
Just a note buttonville is still open.
Robert Galambos CIPP/C CIPP/IT
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions Expert -
DB2 UDB for OS/390 Database Administration
Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada
Certified Information Privacy Professional/Information
as a side note. Person airport is not actually in Toronto but another city
called Mississauga
which is a city onto itself, has the longest elected mayor I believe anywhere,
at least in north America
Robert Galambos CIPP/C CIPP/IT
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified
No sched commercial flights from buttonville
Robert Galambos CIPP/C CIPP/IT
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions Expert -
DB2 UDB for OS/390 Database Administration
Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada
Certified Information Privacy
Given that another ISV has spoken up, I should do the same.
File-AID MVS has a compatible compare function as well, however it is
not the only function but one of many.
A 'Swiss army' knife of data, if you want but of course I am a
little prejudiced
;-).
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Until now I have refrained from responding BUT I think I need to.
First to answer your question, depending on where the data comes from or
resides, there may be legal question. Both the EU and Canada to name but
two countries, have very 'strong' regulations concerning what a company
can do with
Don't know if what is stated below is something that you are considering, so
let me give you my 2 cents.
1) NO
2) NO
But seriously here are some of the reasons that will cause you issues
Privacy. If you have a separate environment with production data, you MAYBE in
jeopardy of contravening
This is a loaded question. The simply answer is it depends.
1) it depends on what platform you are talking about. Is it z\OS or USS (Linux
on the IBM Iron horse)
2) Then it depends on what the DBMS is supporting. Is it a transaction based
application where response time is important, is it a
and
then destroy it.
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Galambos, Robert
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:26 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Comparing - ISPF (3.12 and 3.13) with Comparex
yet ISV are not allowed to see anything including
1) there is NO one with the last name of redstock in the compuware directory.
2) so it seems that someone who likes a product, is set up for questioning
because of such
3) this list is for an open discussion. Good or bad. I normally refrain from
posting unless there is a question pertaining to
John Anderson runs a listserv that does not accept ISV input true. BUT john
Anderson works for IBM. Sounds a little self serving as IBM is its itself a
Software vendor.
If you want to question items, that maybe something you may want to also
consider
Robert Galambos CIPP/C CIPP/IT
yet ISV are not allowed to see anything including expurgated digests.
enough said
Le contenu de ce courriel s'adresse au destinataire seulement. Il contient de
l'information pouvant être confidentielle. Vous ne devez ni le copier ni
l'utiliser ni le divulguer à qui que ce soit à moins que
Did you look up the reason code?
Robert Galambos CIPP/C CIPP/IT
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Database Associate
IBM Certified DB2 9 for z/OS Database Administration
Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada
Certified Information Privacy
up to now I have refrained from entering this debate, as it was something, no
matter what I would have said, would be questioned because of the source (me).
It is truly up to the organization to way the benefits of any process, weather
it is a tool, a new form etc.
BUT I have to enter this
OK, just adding my two cents. If you have File-AID MVS you already have a
compare tool that does everything comperex does as well as others.
And its part of the product.
Sorry now back to your regular programming
;-)
Robert Galambos CIPP/C CIPP/IT
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
You may not need to get/buy a new utility if you already own File-AID
MVS
Within the compare function you have the ability to compare HFS files
(as well as MVS structures or mix and match)
Thought I throw my 2 cents in.
Robert Galambos CIPP/C CIPP/IT
Compuware Senior Technical
Need to print a report that has double byte chars in it(Thai characters). If it
is being spooled to the output que, what is the parameter needed to be
specified so it will print properly?
Thanks in advance
Le contenu de ce courriel s'adresse au destinataire seulement. Il contient de
As a important note.
While we are talking about data from going to one country to another for
processing/storing etc. One also needs to remember when the data is used
develop/test/qa 'outside' the original jurisdiction, data masking
consideration is even more important.
According to some
Actually in a fairly/good/large implementation of test data privacy the numbers
don't seem to be unreasonable (but there are a number of factors that need to
be looked at. (i.e ONLY DB2 data, or MVS/Oracle/VSAM as well, instead of?).
Also a number of differnet aspects need to be.
An example.
If you have File-AID MVS its as simple as specifying backward processing
within the selection criteria option panel and then asking for as many
records as you need. Whether the file is 100 or 1 million records long.
This can be done on line or batch as well if need be
If you want, feel free in
First of I want to thank everyone who either has contributed, or at least read
this thread. It makes for some eye opening, information gathering, networking
opportunities for all.
Before I go on, as I stated my intension is a series of threads the first being
this WHY. Watch for another either
In the spirit of the first thread, I am introducing the second. that is, HOW do
we go about protecting/auditing PII (personal identifiable information)
The first thing I have to say, don't expect for an average size company
to be able within a short period of time to completely
See below
Robert Galambos CIPP/C CIPP/IT
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Database Associate
IBM Certified DB2 9 for z/OS Database Administration
Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada
Certified Information Privacy Professional/Information Technology
I have noticed a couple of questions in the last couple of months
concerning issues along the lines of data disguise/data masking/data
obfuscation (a lot of different words for the same issue Protecting PII
(personal identifiable information)) from being 'released'
My plan, unless there is a
, but those are some of
MY thoughts!
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From: Galambos, Robert robert.galam...@compuware.com
Date: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Subject
While you can make a customized versions for EACH and EVERY type of
ACSII/EBCID/VSAM/FLAT file, DB2/IMS/ACESSS etc Database, XML, Excel, etc files
(remembering that PII (personnel identifiable information) can be stored in a
number of different places), you would also have to maintain all the
David
Actually this isn't to hard, but will need a couple of different tools in
conjunction together
1) you need to parse out the SMF records to a flat file, (Depending on which
SMF record and which field you want (or all the fields) that is comma
delimited. (you can do this very easily do
Gee there goes another vendor. OPPS that me
File-AID MVS Search/update(3.6) can do this, with or without adding Boolean
logic to the find (the standard find command) over multiple members of a PDS.
No REXX coding needed.
Robert Galambos CIPP/C CIPP/IT
Compuware Senior Technical
Well Ron it depends on how you want to access the records.
Using File-AID MVS batch (with backward processing optionally to make it run
quicker) would be the easiest way. There are also a number of Date function
within File-AID Data Solutions as well for manipulation if your requirements
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Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 8:44 AM
To: Galambos, Robert
Subject: Fw: last resort - help, I need an SMP/E genius
Importance: High
Hi Robert,
firstly, happy Monday to you, and I
Just to time in, since it does concern Compuware.
The best source of information concerning this capability is to contact your
local Compuware office, where I AM SURE they will be able to help you out on
this capability. (this is NOT a separate product but is part of our commitment
to provide
That is incorrect
As long as you 'tell' File-AID that you have a panavlet library (and where the
link modules are, it will work
Please if you have any questions feel free in contacting our hotline at
1-800-538-7822
It is free for all our customers
Robert Galambos CIPP/C
Compuware
Howard
If you have File-AID MVS then the comparison would be very simple, Whether
online or Batch Using layouts, or not. You would be able to create the
comparison in question.
You can indicate which fields/positions you want to compare on (in your case
ignoring the date field), as well as an
All valid questions.
While the information captured must be complete (showing the complete session
in question from initiation to completion), the storage of the information
should be in a 'compressed' form. The reasoning is to try to save on storage
space as well.
Your question about
You are correct that this auditing must be done. This Application Auditing
must include not just what a RACF log would show - that someone had access to a
file, but to show exactly what the user saw. It is one thing to know that
someone logged in, accessed a sensitive file and logged out
By the way, I think IBM has the only debugger for IBM C and C++ on z/OS.
SORRY to dis-agree with you.
Compuware does HAVE a debugger for C (Xped). And it has been out for awhile as
well.
Robert Galambos CIPP/C
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions Expert -
DB2
What I would recommend you do is ask the same question on the DB2-L listserv.
You may get some more opinion
www.idug.org and go to the listserv tab
Robert Galambos CIPP/C
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions Expert -
DB2 UDB for OS/390 Database Administration
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Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:34 PM
To: Galambos, Robert
Cc: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Subject: Re: DB2 queries without using MF.
HI
DB2-L Service Restored
We are pleased to announce that the IDUG-sponsored DB2 Listserve (DB2-L) has
been restored. A team of very dedicated volunteers has been working literally
night and day to restore service following an outage that occurred Friday, July
27. The outage was caused when the
I wanted to drop a line here to let everyone know that we are still working on
bring the DB2-L Listserv back on line. We are a lot closer then we have been,
but a number of technical issues have yet to be resolved. There have been
volunteers who have been working throughout the night (aside
Hello
My name is Robert and I am one of the volunteers who work on the DB2-L
listserv.
First of all I want to thank all those people who have sent their quires and
support during this problem.
There has been a number of set back we have experienced during this outage in
trying to bring up
Chris
If you have File-AID MVS you can do a
simple compare,
compare two different types of files,
compare without most if not all false positives,
compare with record layouts,
compare with different output files,
only those fields that are different,
comparisons with tolerances,
read
The YLASSOC listserv was taken over by the IDUG (international DB2 User group)
and that listserv address was posted within the thread
Robert Galambos
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions Expert -
DB2 UDB for OS/390 Database Administration
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All you have to do is to go to option 3.6 within File-AID MVS. From there if
you go option 'M', specify the PDS library and enter the find/change command
like you would normally within SPF and voila.
If need be, feel free in contacting the Hotline with any further questions you
may have. (I
Maybe a little late. But just a note (don't kill the messenger) If you have
access to File-AID MVS, Accessing HFS files is exactly the same as accessing
files in the MVS catalog. No differences, Capabilities exactly the same (print
formatted, audit trails etc.)..
This note is also to the
Let me add my two cents in.
If you have File-AID MVS it would be very easy to create a Batch job with the
following control card statement
$$DD01 VTOCDSN UNIT=3390,DSNAME=*P.+
This output can then be manipulated if need be or just listed on a report.
If you have any other questions feel
The IDUG DB2 listserv has a good solution to this issue. We require (I am a
volunteer) that any promotions, ads, etc, have, as a prefix on the subject line
the lateral '[AD]' in this way, those who are interested can still read them
and those who do not can delete/filter
Just an idea
Once again I want to wish you a happy and safe holidays. (this list gets bigger
and bigger S)
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Adhola: Wafayo Chamo Mbaga Bothi Oro Manyeni
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As a side note. When using File-Aid MVS, you have the ability, within the
selection criteria options panel to skip and/or select the number of records
you want/don't want. (there are a number of additional options you can also use
at the same time i.e. stop after certain number of records,
Richard
No you were not dreaming. File-AID has a number of different ways of supporting
VERY VERY large files. Window editing is just one way (as mentioned in this
thread previously). There is also Selection criteria, specifying larger temp
files (within the parameters section of File-AID)
Clark
See below for answers to your issues.
Robert Galambos
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions Expert -
DB2 UDB for OS/390 Database Administration
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Sent: October 27, 2006 11:02 AM
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Have you tried to go to the Compuware's support website frontline.compuware.com
?
You can also call our hotline at 1-800-538-7822 to ask your question etc.
If you have any questions about this post or having any other issues, please
let me know
Robert Galambos
Compuware Senior Technical
You may want to post this message on the DB2-L listserv as well
Robert Galambos
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions Expert -
DB2 UDB for OS/390 Database Administration
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Tel: +1 905 886 7000
Toll Free: +1 800 263 7189
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You want to post your question on the DB2-l listserv as well
Robert Galambos
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions Expert -
DB2 UDB for OS/390 Database Administration
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Toll Free: +1 800 263 7189
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Have you tried using File-AID MVS to do the search that you want. If you
want, feel free in contacting the support number in AUS to get any of these
type of questions answered feel free in either contacting the local HOTLINE
number or on frontline.compuware.com which is our internet
Gerry.
On the main panel of File-AID MVS go to utilities, and then to option 6
(SEARCH/UPDATE) the two options are M for a simple FIND/CHANGE over many
members of a PDS or U where you can apply Boolean logic (EQ, LT, GE, ETC.)
to the change you want
Also on Nov 15 Compuware will be having a
Ed
Depending on what exactly you want to do, and if you have File-AID MVS. You
can probably get The File-AID MVS Batch to do your mentioned steps. In fact
chances are that it would run more efficiently as well.
Just a thought
Robert Galambos
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM
Hi
Gerry
To answer your question. You should be able to use UPDATE function on the
empty file. What this will do is open and then close the file. There should
be no need to actually create a record and delete as the only thing you need
is an open and close on the file.
Just as a side note. If
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10 to one the article is based on a PR/news release from one of the
companies involved. As in most cases these are veiled self-promotion trying
to give impressions that, they hope, will lead others down the same road
Robert Galambos
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified
There is a listserv (DB2-L) listserv that is run by IDUG (international DB2
User Group) that may be of help in answering your questions. (whether OS/Z
390 or LUW versions)
You can subscribe at www.idug.org
Robert Galambos
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions
If you have File-Aid MVS, you should be able to do all using the
batch component. If you have question feel free in contacting me, or the
Compuware's hotline at 1-800-538-7822
Robert Galambos
Compuware Senior Technical Specialist
IBM Certified Solutions Expert -
DB2
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