Re: FTP error checking and recovery

2009-09-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
FWIW, SSH protocol 2 includes MAC (message authentication code) checking (as well as compression and encryption). SSH/SFTP is therefore verified, compressed, and encrypted automatically. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Paul Gilmartin

Re: z/OS 1.11 (and COBOL 4.2) new features summary

2009-09-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
-order bytes of the fullword indicate the length of the complete logical record plus 4 bytes for the fullword. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:59:34 -0300, Clark Morris wrote

Re: It's Official: z/OS Now 110% Modern

2009-08-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
Will the new limit for JCL PARM= will be 110 characters? :-) On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Timothy Sipples e99...@jp.ibm.com wrote: I would like to draw your attention to the z/OS 1.11 announcement letter, now available here:

Re: IBM Journals

2009-08-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
Invoice? It looks like you can buy one online with some of that E-commerce stuff. BTW: Google's indexing bot can still read them for free :-) On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 8/20/2009 10:39:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time,

Re: Batch Java not working

2009-08-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
Lizette, FWIW. The recommended way to run batch java is via the IBM JZOS batch launcher, which is included with the IBM Java SDKs for z/OS. See: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/java/products/jzos/overview.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS

Re: JESINTERFACELEVEL for FTP

2009-08-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
and then deploy it and submit/run/get output for jobs using Ant scripts via FTP. It works great, but not with JESINTERFACELEVEL=1. See: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk for information on downloading the JZOS Cookbook and sample Eclipse project. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: z10 and overlapping/destructive moves

2009-08-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
go the fastest... the public documentation doesn't nearly tell you the whole story. For the XLC/C++ compiler, you can specify target architecture levels, so you can even pick up clues as to what changes are important. You should see what the XLC compiler does instead of a MVCL :-) Kirk Wolf

Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code

2009-08-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
understand *yourself* an hour later. Great fun ;-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS How long before we will see a (generated?) posting about HONE? :-) On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM, McKown, John jmck...@healthmarkets.comwrote: How To Write Unmaintainable Code Ensure

Re: Java question

2009-08-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
may interpret, but frequently used bytecode is dynamically compiled into efficient machine instructions. Additionally, the AOT support in SDK 6 allows you to use a system cache to reuse compiled bytecode between JVMs. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: Java question

2009-08-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
be helpful. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com wrote: Is there anything on horizon for Java pgm's written and exec'd MVS Loadlib's? ... -- Email Disclaimer

Re: Java question

2009-08-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
modules. Calling MVS load modules directly from Java (in the same process) is another matter, and that is what I thought you were asking about earlier. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com wrote: reason asking is Java pgm'r was curious

Re: Java question

2009-08-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
could execute that member with your own launcher or main class. I just don't see much benefit to do this however, other than avoiding the zFS filesystem. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com wrote: Kirk What I recv'd

Re: Mainframe Utility for EBCDIC to ASCII conversion

2009-07-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
information, see: http://dovetail.com/products/dspipes.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:11:09 -0600, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote: On 30 Jul 2009 06:24:40

Re: cbttape #737

2009-07-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
http://cbttape.org/downloadtrouble.htm On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Crabtree, Anne D anne.d.crabt...@wv.govwrote: Found this on cbttape site: File # 737 Package to clear all DASD to X'00' after D/R Test http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT737.zip Clicked on it and it downloaded a

Re: z/OS Mainframe - SFTP - Disable Publickey Authentication and only use Password?

2009-07-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
StrictHostkeyChecking=no so that the host key is automatically added to ~/.ssh/known_hosts the first time B) user keys - these can be used an an alternative to passwords, and your steps A and B show how to set these up. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-07-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
The error you are getting would indicate that there is no output on stdout pipe from unzip. As you suggest, it looks like unzip from stdin (using -) doesn't work. You might try this as an equivalent alternative for reading from stdin: fromdsn -b //DD:IN | unzip -p /dev/fd0 | todsn -s

Re: z/OS Mainframe - SFTP - Disable Publickey Authentication and only use Password?

2009-07-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
It depends on what you mean by batch.You can absolutely get sftp to work in a z/OS batch job using SSH_ASK_PASS. I provided an example earlier in this thread, and others have posted similar examples. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Mark Postmp...@novell.com wrote: On 7/16/2009 at  4:32

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-07-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
Looks like unzip doesn't like your input data. I'll bet that if you copy it to HFS it will also fail. What RECFM is the dataset? If it is RECFM=F*, maybe it has extra bytes in the last record, in which case unzip probably won't like it. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Vikesh

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-07-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
I agree. bzip2 or gzip seem like much better choices than zip. AFAIK, zip files have a directory at the end of the archive with a pointer to the end at the very beginning. This might explain why unzip is failing with pipes or special files. On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Chase,

Re: z/OS Mainframe - SFTP - Disable Publickey Authentication and only use Password?

2009-07-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS Mainframe - SFTP - Disable Publickey Authentication and only use Password? ssh (used by sftp) won't work unless

Re: z/OS Mainframe - SFTP - Disable Publickey Authentication and only use Password?

2009-07-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e-mail shall not operate to bind CSC to any order or other contract unless pursuant to explicit written agreement or government initiative expressly permitting the use of e-mail for such purpose. Kirk Wolf k

Re: z/OS Mainframe - SFTP - Disable Publickey Authentication and only use Password?

2009-07-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 5:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS Mainframe - SFTP - Disable Publickey Authentication and only use Password? ssh (used by sftp) won't work unless *host* keys are exchanged when the session is setup

Re: z/OS Mainframe - SFTP - Disable Publickey Authentication and only use Password?

2009-07-15 Thread Kirk Wolf
a interactive user is required to acknowledge acceptance. User authentication can be done in a number of ways, including keys and password. The password is *never* sent in the clear. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Hal Merritthmerr

Re: JQuestion on Java

2009-07-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
with the java Unix shell command. the answer to this is no - JRIO can be used in any z/OS SDK JVM. BTW: The same answers applies to the JZOS Toolkit apis (ibmjzos.jar), which are also part of the SDK and provide similar function to JRIO. HTH, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: Symbolic parameters inside SYSIN

2009-07-07 Thread Kirk Wolf
) //*/ /* (2) RUN IDCAMS TO DELETE CLUSTERS //*/ /DELDEFIN EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD DISP=SHR,DSN=WORK //PEND Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue

Re: Converting CPU Time to MIPS

2009-07-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
Pretty funny, but if that analogy doesn't work, then tell them that CPUs are like spigots, and applications are like guys standing around with one or more buckets.If they start to get that, then quickly switch analogies - maybe we can compile a list? :-) On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Tom

Re: IBM PDF manuals and the Amazon Kindle DX.

2009-06-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, Hopefully they will improve their PDF software. I heard a review on the TWIT Security Now podcast where it was panned for the PDF reader, even though they liked the hardware. The reviewer that I heard said that many PDFs they he tried were unreadable. Too bad its not an open Linux

Re: The downside

2009-06-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
it. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS My desktop has been running Ubuntu for almost 4 years on the same hardware and the fantastic package / update management system, based on Debian/APT smoothly upgrades between versions and keeps track of all of the files not only in the OS

Re: java6 can't initialize JVM

2009-06-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
will get some debugging information, including a display of the LDA storage map. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies 2009/6/25 he_ming he_m...@bayss.com I use 32 bit java. No IEFUSI exit is installed. OS is ZOS 1.8. I set below variable in etc/profile, but still fail to init JVM

Re: z/OS zip file processing - an idea

2009-06-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
a shell or using the JZOS Batch launcher. You can also run java under TSO, using REXX/bpxwunix or BPXBATCH. I've clipped the comment header from the sample class below. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com /**  *  A sample Java main class that can be invoked to create a Zip

Re: java6 can't initialize JVM

2009-06-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
storage requirements and programmer skill :-) And, it is more efficient to run Java apps with a max heap size that is not massively larger than you actually need. GC will work better and your app will generally use less real storage and often less cpu. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
/wiki/index.php?title=Info-ZIP Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Bob Woodside ibm...@woodsway.com wrote: On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Bob Woodside wrote: Ah, but that I was just playing around with the code to see what would happen. Based on EG's comments, I've

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
# to reach back and access a dataset in the launching job fromdsn -k -l crlf //DD:IN | gzip -c - | gpg -r key-1 --batch --output=- --encrypt=- | curl -T- ftp://dest.host/dir/file.data // (Yes, this works with Windows if you have CYGWIN, although it wouldn't be my preference) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: Avoiding Java (Was: And you ask why I hate OMVS?)

2009-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
What a great quote! I'm a big Java fan, but your statement is sadly true about most Java applications developed today. It is not that Java isn't a terrific language, but all modern OO languages suffer the same problem: they provide more ways for poor programmers to make a mess. Most companies

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
text editor on z/OS. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Bob Woodside ibm...@woodsway.com wrote: On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote: Bob, We could really use you as a contributor in http://oss4zos.org Let me know if you would

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
a zip file with a single file named - in it. Of course, if you hate OMVS you won't like this ;-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS Sometimes when you need to deal with many combinations of compressing, encrypting, converting, and transfering datasets from z/OS its just easier

Re: PKA functions only deal with small data chunks?

2009-06-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
the approach that you would want to take to encrypt data using asymmetric key pairs. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Henrique Seganfredo henri...@seganfredo.com wrote: Hello folks, I am posting this one from office. I am doing some ICSF

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
Try it - it seems to give you an archive with no files in it. After all, what would the file name in the zip directory be? On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Bob Woodsideibm...@woodsway.com wrote: On Monday 15 June 2009, Kirk Wolf wrote: I could be wrong, but I don't believe that zip allows

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-15 Thread Kirk Wolf
I could be wrong, but I don't believe that zip allows input from stdin. If info-zip uses fopen() to open files, then it might be possible to read mvs datasets directly as input files. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Timothy Sipplese99

Re: Curiousity: Mono on z/OS?

2009-06-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
difficult than porting Java?  Aren't they both bytecode runtime environments (not sure that's the correct term...)? On 6/12/2009 at 1:50 PM, in message 4a32792b026d0007a...@sinclair.provo.novell.com, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: On 6/12/2009 at  2:53 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote

Re: Curiousity: Mono on z/OS?

2009-06-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
would it be useful for? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM, McKown, Johnjmck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: For those that don't know, Mono is a project to make a clean room implementation of Microsoft's CLR (the basis of .NET). Now, we have Java

Re: Curiousity: Mono on z/OS?

2009-06-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
/OS and other plaforms? Most Java apps and jars run fine under z/OS if you know how to navigate the common pitfalls. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:53 PM, David Andrewsd...@lists.duda.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:53 -0400, Kirk Wolf wrote

Re: Codepage issue from uss

2009-06-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
/tomcat.html for more information on T:Z Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:44 AM, David Johnston dave.johns...@westernsouthernlife.com wrote: Hello, We are undertaking moving our internal web-facing documentation from an NFS mapped unix server

Re: Java V6 install problem

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
This is somewhat off-topic, but if you don't have memory constraint issues in your Java apps ( 1.5GB heap), you are probably better off running the 31-bit version of Java 6. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX?

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
) Adoption of z/OS Unix by non-z/OS users is another story. Although z/OS does a good job of conforming to POSIX standards, it is weak compared to other Unix systems in that common open source tools are not available, and porting is often difficult. (See the http://oss4zos.org Wiki) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: Java V6 install problem

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
FWIW, if you run java via the JZOS Batch launcher with the LOGLVL='+D' option, it will print out the requested vs actual below-line/above-line/above-bar storage from the LDA. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: INFOZIP 2Gb

2009-06-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
It looks like you are using the IBM Tools and Toys port of InfoZip? Just a guess, but it was built by IBM without the C library _LARGE_FILES feature macro. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Vikesh Bhoola vbho...@sars.gov.za wrote: Hi there listers, I've

Re: SMP/E packaging of maintence / products (was: FMID descriptions)

2009-05-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
I'm not sure if this helps, but the z/OS pax command supports reading archives from an MVS dataset. On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Kurt Quackenbush ku...@us.ibm.com wrote: McKown, John wrote: Could I ask a question which I know you likely cannot answer. But, if possible, could you explain

Re: Java V5 s0c4

2009-05-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
MEMLIMIT. BTW: does anyone else find it objectionable that the standard java launcher doesn't check to see if it has a minimum amount of required memory before crashing during initialization? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Mark Jacobs

Re: IBM Optim question...

2009-05-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Or this :-) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=data+masking On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM, P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, if only there was some sort of way to search a global database for such things. Hey, wait: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_masking

Re: C/C++ Calling OBTAIN / IGC0002G

2009-05-14 Thread Kirk Wolf
://dovetail.com/docs/coz/dsp-ref_catsearch.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Cristi Terpea cristi.ter...@fortech.ro wrote: Thanks. It worked. I'm trying to reproduce the output of ftp's ls command Best regards, Cristi Terpea

Re: C/C++ Calling OBTAIN / IGC0002G

2009-05-14 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, We haven't, but it sounds like a good idea. On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:16 AM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009 08:59:46 -0500, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: Cristi - You might want to use our free catsearch command, which is included with the Co:Z

MULTACC and MULTSDN rule of thumb

2009-05-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM

Re: Batch Process Calling a Web Service

2009-05-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
If you are interested in using Java in a batch job step (as a web service client), there is an example of this in the JZOS Cookbook, available on alphaWorks: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, George.William

Re: MULTACC and MULTSDN rule of thumb

2009-05-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
Thanks. The book seems to also suggest MULTACC=3,MULTSDN=6 ( the same as my SWAG ). Of course, any QSAM considerations aren't mentioned in the old red book, since MULTACC/MULTSDN for QSAM is new. If I understand it, the same considerations should apply as for BSAM, right? Kirk Wolf

Re: IBM Journals availability

2009-05-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
jan.moeyers...@adelior.be wrote: On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:47:10 -0500, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: 4) Using the User Agent switcher, pick the Googlebot user agent string. 5) Now open the pdf link above. enjoy. But... isn't that stealing? Jantje

Re: IBM Journals availability

2009-05-07 Thread Kirk Wolf
Version: 2.1 (I don't think that anything except the User Agent string matters. Most sites that filter on Googlebot just look for Google in the agent string.) 4) Using the User Agent switcher, pick the Googlebot user agent string. 5) Now open the pdf link above. enjoy. Kirk Wolf

Re: IBM Journals availability

2009-05-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
and indexes the site, so apparently IBM's security/redirect for these pages is disabled if you are a robot. So if you use a Firefox plugin to set a robot HTTP header, you will be able to download the PDFs just fine. One of the few cases where two blunders cancel each other out :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: Mainframers Web 2.0

2009-05-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
, or feel free to comment or ask questions on the JZOS alphaWorks forum. Your feedback is appreciated. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Jim Marshall jim.marsh...@opm.gov wrote: Right now in WashDC the hot topic is Web 2.0 and how it can

Re: Anyone Know of a Good Pocket Calculator Like HP with Hex capabilities

2009-05-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Ron Hawkins ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net wrote: But he only needs four fingers on one hand... Huh? Your post reminds me of another joke: There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Re: C/C++ for MVS: How do I read the master catalog?

2009-04-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
://dovetail.com/docs/coz/dsp-ref_catsearch.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Cristi Terpea cristi.ter...@fortech.ro wrote: I'm trying to get the same output as ls '*' from z/OS FTPD. I think this can be done by reading the master catalog. Until now I found no way

Re: FTP more info

2009-04-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
Its a *nix command, available in z/OS USS. See man expand Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS It is easy to mix Unix with z/OS batch using the free Co:Z Toolkit. You could have one step FTP the data to a temporary dataset and then follow with a step like this: // EXEC

Re: Possible new SYSTEM symbols in JCL.

2009-04-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, In this example, why not just use a temporary MVS dataset with DISP=PASS into the Unix step? Then use: fromdsn //DD:MYTEMP | process or: cp //DD:MYTEMP /dev/fd1 | process Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:28 AM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: I've just

Re: Possible new SYSTEM symbols in JCL.

2009-04-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
the primary system symbol table). Then, programs like Unix shells could use them. But we have discussed that to death I guess... Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies FWIW - our free catsearch shell command can also be used to process catalogs from a shell script. It uses IGGCSI00 and F1 DSCBs under

Re: Possible new SYSTEM symbols in JCL.

2009-04-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gil, Of course you know very well that this use of cp is not documented :-) Kirk On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:51:55 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: In this example, why not just use a temporary MVS dataset with DISP=PASS

Re: FTP's

2009-04-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
=U into a temporary dataset that is passed into the CONVERT step. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS COZBATCH is the new name for DTLSPAWN http://dovetail.com/products/cozbatch.html http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/dsp-ref.html PPS If you use the Co:Z Launcher rather than FTP

Re: FTP's

2009-04-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote:  cp /path/to/unix/file | todsn -l 0x05 //DD:DOWNLOAD Correction: you would need to use -l 0x09 since this switch specifies the line terminator in the source codepage (ASCII

Re: What (More) Open Source Software for z/OS?

2009-04-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
FYI - anyone that would like to contribute to the http://oss4zos.org Wiki is more than welcome. Note: the main purpose is to discuss porting FOSS Posix software to z/OS, and *not* OCO, etc. Just send a note to me offline and I'll created a userid for you. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies (We

Re: What (More) Open Source Software for z/OS?

2009-04-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
All that needs to happen is a few customers telling them that they now read: http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/papers/ Since it is free electronically. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: METAL C: CodeGen defeciency?

2009-04-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:36:13 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: Johnny Luo wrote: Hi, I was trying new METAL option of XL C and the following is the HLASM code generated : *  { *    char a[20]=12345;          MVC  

Re: insane thought - SMF reformatter?

2009-04-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Don't feel bad Radoslaw, I'm a native English speaker and I still confuse the term. Given that, I found Walt's post invaluable :-) On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:55:18 -0500, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi, Radoslaw

Re: What (More) Open Source Software for z/OS?

2009-04-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
to see if universities like Marist would be interested in some kind of intern program to help work on these. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: I put up a blog post asking What (More) Open Source Software Do You

New free Co:Z tools and z/OS Tomcat distro

2009-04-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Today we have made available new releases of our free tools for z/OS - * A new release of the Co:Z Toolkit (1.2.5) with: - minor enhancement to Co:Z SFTP to allow recall of migrated datasets - a new and *improved* version of DTLSPAWN, now named COZBATCH * A new free product, T:Z - Quickstart

Re: insane thought - SMF reformatter?

2009-04-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:51 AM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: One wonderful thing that the RACF people have been doing lately is the ability to reformat their SMF data into XML format. This made me wonder. Does anybody else think that this would be useful

Re: insane thought - SMF reformatter?

2009-04-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
Yeah, that's what I meant by serialization. Think of it as flattening. An SMF record is really a flattening of, in many cases, a nested object model. But how consumable are SMF records? It would be nice, IMO, if there were a common schema for each SMF object that described the structure and

Re: Ported tools and SSH

2009-04-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
to secure IBM's Ported Tools version, but it would be better if it were extended to support SAF/ICSF keystores for SSH keys, PAM, kerberos, etc. Please send your requirement requests to IBM if this is important in your environment. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: O.T. Friday Question

2009-04-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
If you are interested in Linux on z, then you you look at: http://linuxvm.org. There are some free distributions available, but if you want support you will have to pay. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

z/OS Tomcat Distro - packaging testers needed

2009-04-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
experience level - z/OS Unix experience level All information received will treated as confidential, but will help us improve the usability. Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Dovetail SFTP (was: Ported tools and SSH)

2009-04-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
over FTP: - it only uses one socket and is more firewall / NAT router friendly. - more popular on *nix platforms these days. HTH, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: TN3270 Clients?

2009-04-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
I use x3270 on both Linux and Windows. It supports SSL, large screen formats, keyboard customization, etc just fine. I'm sure that its not as good as your favorite commercial offering, but for me it works fine. On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Rich Smrcina rsmrc...@wi.rr.com wrote: Give

Re: secure file transfer FROM z/OS

2009-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
extension to the SSH protocol and will only be supported when talking to another Tectia SSH implementation. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Cebell, David cebe...@aafes.com wrote: The person who supports file transfer in our shop reports

Re: secure file transfer FROM z/OS

2009-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
and ideally they should be signed by a common CA and not self-signed. And if they are not stored in secure keystores on both sides, then they aren't much more secure than passwords. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Cebell, David cebe...@aafes.com wrote: Kirk, Thank

Re: secure file transfer FROM z/OS

2009-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
SSH. X.509 isn't the only game in town, and the SSH RFC group has some good rationale against adopting it. But z/OS Ported Tools OpenSSH has several weaknesses wrt security - where's kerberos? where's PAM? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM

Re: secure file transfer FROM z/OS

2009-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
via OpenSSL, although it doesn't comply over the wire with the RFC. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS A user can't patch the Ported Tools port of OpenSSH since source is not available. We have a restaurant in the Midwest where the chefs work behind the counter

Re: 3270 Session to movie for presentation?

2009-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
This is exactly what we did (vnc2swf and x3270) for an old demo that is on our website, if you want to see how one looks. http://dovetail.com/demos/coz/demo1.html (Look ma', no Windoze!) Kirk Wolf On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Philippe Seveur psev...@nsiservices.comwrote: A free solution

Re: secure file transfer FROM z/OS

2009-03-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
. - SSH Communications offers their own completely separate SSH/SFP product (Tectia). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS Are you interested in more information on z/OS SSH SFTP ? We plan on offering a free webinar on Ported Tools OpenSSH and SFTP. Please drop me an email

Re: IBM Patents efforts to justify offshoring

2009-03-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
I briefly read the patent application, and I notice that it doesn't seem to mention if the model includes back-testing / accuracy measurements. Hmmm. BTW: Rumor is that IBM has a massive supercomputing grid running a secret AI application called Blue Patent Shoes that automatically generates

Re: MSTC Terminal Server Connection, RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)

2009-03-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
a simple to use pipe interface. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com/coz On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Michael liberatore vze2q...@verizon.netwrote: Would like to know how I could use MSTC to submit or start a bat or rexx process from another server. Such As RDP from server

Re: Old discussion about Windows running on a mainframe ( I brought up)

2009-03-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Yet, it is still amazing how many people think that Java is still only interpreted. Quoting from an Austin SHARE presentation on PHP: Unlike Java or other interpretive language, PHP’s focus is to use the script to invoke “native” C subroutines that do the actual work at full speed Kirk Wolf

Re: one IKJEFT01 job, 2 outputs in sdsf - why?

2009-03-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
a is a and b is b foo a b // With either AOPBATCH or DTLSPAWN, you can also put a shell script in an HFS file rather than a STDIN spool file. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Bonno, Tuco t...@cio.sc.gov wrote: THANK YOU. this example

Re: How to use CSI Catalog Search Interface

2009-03-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
web 2.0 UI that uses web service. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com IBM JZOS home page: http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/java/products/jzos/overview.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Secure FTP Server software vendors

2009-02-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
, etc. For details, refer to an article that we wrote in the zJournal August/September 2008 issue, or send me an email offline and I'll forward you a copy. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: We are trying

Re: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, The JZOS Cookbook (on alphaWorks) has code samples and a nice little class for reading RDW-delimited records. Not ugly at all :-) There are also examples in the cookbook of using the (Cobol) copy book to Java tools. The ASM Dsect utility is similar. The difficult part of many SMF

Re: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
examples and Ant scripts for doing this. Kirk On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:52:11 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: John, The JZOS Cookbook (on alphaWorks) has code samples and a nice little class for reading RDW-delimited

Re: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
books or Assembler DSECTs into Java record-mapping code. You can run this code on any platform, so that might be one solution to making the process a little easier. It still seems like a aweful lot of work to me Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:30 PM, John McKown

Re: insanity? process SMF with Java on non-z?

2009-02-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
books or Assembler DSECTs into Java record-mapping code. You can run this code on any platform, so that might be one solution to making the process a little easier. It still seems like a aweful lot of work to me. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
Windows or z/OS and FTP the file in binary. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
of the Java JRE you are using to get IBM-1047. In older versions, you might try Cp1047, which is equivalent. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:49:58 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: John

Re: z/OS 1.8, UTF-16 ftp?

2009-01-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
, 16 Jan 2009 13:53:30 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: John, - If you change the code to use a BufferedReader/BufferedWriter with readLine() and then write()/newLine() , then it will handle any line end combo you give it. The output will use the lineend convention of the platform

Re: Eclipse articles

2009-01-14 Thread Kirk Wolf
on the cookbook or sample project can be posted to the JZOS alphaworks forum Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:21 AM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: I know this is not directly applicable. However, there may be mainframe shops which are using the RDz (or whatever IBM

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