knockd on z/OS - Port Knocking

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Bishop
Hi, just curious for now, but we may soon need to do this for real. Has anyone got this running on z/OS? I did a quick archive search on knockd but drew a blank. I couldn't find much in the IBM sites either. thanks, Peter Bishop HP Australia

Re: knockd on z/OS - Port Knocking

2012-02-28 Thread Peter Bishop
for port knockd site:IBM.com. Google has a bunch of hits. HTH. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Peter Bishop peter.bis...@eds.com wrote: Hi, just curious for now, but we may soon need to do this for real. Has anyone got this running on z/OS? I did a quick archive

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-07 Thread Peter Bishop
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 23:13:37 -0500, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: All in all, it appears to me that the developers weren't sincerely motivated to make Unix System Services work as it should.  It's a half-hearted (is

Re: CPU capping is not working for one Lpar only on CEC?

2010-11-03 Thread Peter Bishop
Also see the PR/SM Planning Guide which has a good discussion called Capping in a single logical partition. ---start quote In order to use capping for an LP on a CPC where there is a need for only one active LP using shared CPs, you must define and activate a second “dummy” LP. The dummy LP must

Re: recommended way to send large files from Z/os to WIN and backward

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Bishop
On Mon, 3 May 2010 13:48:38 +0300, Matan Cohen matancohen...@gmail.com wrote: we are trying to use an ftp client on z/os using a job to get datasets larger than 4 GB from a windows server after we succesfully send the Datasets to the windows FTP server . when trying to get the Datasets back to

Re: JES3 CONSTD SYN= and PLEXSYN=

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Bishop
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 08:50:13 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: For decades, I have recommended those wishing to establish a so-called bronzeplex, use a CONSTD definition like the one we use: CONSTD,DLOG=ON,SYN=(8,*),PLEXSYN=(HQ3A) There used to be (or so I thought) special

Re: JES3 CONSTD SYN= and PLEXSYN=

2009-09-06 Thread Peter Bishop
On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:29:27 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: What is your CONSTD definition? What do you see when issuing 'D OPDATA' on the local? P01 is a local... Here's the D O display, I've snipped the non-JES3 bits P01= SYSVUSER +GSVX014I (VTAM.SM0504) SM0504

Re: How often IPL a production LPAR (any good practice)

2009-09-03 Thread Peter Bishop
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:11:50 -0500, Chris Craddock crashlu...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, yeah I know. I know. There will be spluttering replies about software bills, yada yada - trust me I've heard it all. My question back is, if you're paying for a high availability platform and not leveraging it,

Re: Java availability

2009-09-03 Thread Peter Bishop
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:41:09 -0400, Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com wrote: Thanks Dave. Does anyone know if there is any kind of sample pgm provided by ibm that will perform a java call from the mvs environment? Thanks Matt The response from the 'java -version' command is pasted below. Does this

Re: Changing system time when using STP

2009-09-02 Thread Peter Bishop
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:44:21 +0300, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; gad...@malam.com wrote: Hi, A few months ago we replaced our Sysplex Timer (9037-002) with STP. We have two z890’s. Each z890 has a production LPAR and a test LPAR. The production LPAR’s form one basic

Re: Changing system time when using STP

2009-09-02 Thread Peter Bishop
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Bishop Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Changing system time when using STP On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 09:44:21 +0300, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; gad...@malam.com wrote: Hi

Re: # of subchannels

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Bishop
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:04:46 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: Recently two subchannels sets became available on new mainframes. However my question regards how the number of subchannels is defined. For example: 1 LPAR on CPC(single CSS) and 2000 devices gives 2000 subchannels

Re: Batch Java not working

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Bishop
//STEP10 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH, // PARM='SH ENV ; CD /ETC ; LS -LA' ENV: FSUM7351 not found CD: FSUM7351 not found LS: FSUM7351 not found Any thoughts on why my BATCH JAVA does not work, but my TSO JAVA does? Could it be that the commands are capitalised? Or is that just from the

Re: IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Bishop
Hi, you can also disable them which will save maintenance costs. Basically the IFL is still there on the core but PR/SM can't use it. We had to do relinquish one to avoid adding a book. The IFL was taking up a PU slot that we needed more for a general-purpose CP than an IFL at that time.

Re: Is there a MIPS to Ghs conversion table or vise vera; we would like to move several Linix servers to an IFL

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Bishop
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:36:47 -0600, BOB COSBY bob.co...@nfc.usda.gov wrote: Google is not very helpful. 1. What is the Mps to Ghz conversion for our mainframe - i.e. we have a 2094-S08 505 processor for mainframe applications that has 1,721 MIPS. 2. How many virtual Linux servers would

Re: IBM halves mainframe Linux engine prices

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Bishop
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:43:11 -1000, Stephen Y Odo step...@hawaii.edu wrote: Can you elaborate on that point? And cite documentation for it? I mentioned that to my bosses in one of my many attempts to sell Linux/IFL to my management. The way I understand it, if we purchase, say, a z10 BC with

Re: HYPERPAV Support on Hitachi Disk

2009-06-15 Thread Peter Bishop
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:48:29 -0600, Kopischke, David G. dgkopisc...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: Greetings, I'm researching using HYPERPAV on some new Hitachi disk we're getting. I'm coming across mixed indications of whether HYPERPAV is supported on non-IBM DS8* arrays. I read one post in the

Re: HYPERPAV Support on Hitachi Disk

2009-06-15 Thread Peter Bishop
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:14:27 -0500, Dave Kopischke dgkopisc...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: Excellent Do you happen to know if this is an additional cost feature of z/OS or Hitachi ??? Not that it matters a whole lot. I'm going to pursue it anyway No extra cost on z/OS. I believe

Re: ICSF pin mailer printing

2009-06-03 Thread Peter Bishop
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:42:25 -0500, Frank Swarbrick fswarbr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone out there use ICSF (Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility) for encryption between self and Visa/Mastercard/ATMs? I'm specifically curious about how PIN mailer processing is done. (If it is done!) We

Re: HMC question on z9 (through listserver this time)

2009-06-02 Thread Peter Bishop
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:18:26 -0400, Neal Eckhardt neckha...@penntraffic.com wrote: Ok, we just got a z9, and I'm browsing through the HMC stuff. I have accessed the HMC application through my web browser so I can capture some screen prints for updated documentation. While playing around, I tried

Re: RACF Newbie question

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Bishop
Hi, you should see the message in both LPARs as Skip says. Google is pretty handy, I found this http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/resources/servers_eserver_zseries_zos_racf_pdf_racf_v2r1_installation_implementation_gg244405.pdf Seems to be an old manual, but does show the steps required,

Re: SDSF SORT

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Bishop
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 20:35:09 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: By default, SDSF STatus panel seems to display jobs in chronological order. How can I reverse this and see them most recent on top? There seems to be no column on which I can SORT % D to accomplish this. BTW, I

Re: Setting up NTP Time Source for STP

2009-04-02 Thread Peter Bishop
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 13:54:13 -0400, Martin, Mike mike.mar...@ncsecu.org wrote: All, We are using STP but we are not using an External Time Source. We have two mainframes; a Preferred Time Server and a Backup. I am trying to come up with the steps required to use our company's NTP server as

Re: HMC API - hwmcaapi library for zLinux

2009-03-29 Thread Peter Bishop
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:34:51 -0500, Mauri Kanter itzuv...@013.net.il wrote: Good morning HMC fans: I downloaded snipl I tried to find the hwmcaapi library for zLinux in resourcelink without success. Someone that can point me to the exact url ? Thanks in advance for your help. Mauri.

Re: Cost of RACF vs. small file I/O

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Bishop
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:07:32 -0400, P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I'm showing my RACF ignorance in a big way, obviously! That doesn't bother me, I can take it. The issue is code that currently generates some data objects (they're all small) and caches them in HFS. Someone said, They should

Re: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

2009-03-15 Thread Peter Bishop
HyoungSeok, what some others have tried to tell you is that you need to send a mail to the list server and not the list. So, send a note with the same subject GET IBM-MAIN INFO to lists...@bama.ua.edu. You can see these instructions at the bottom of the postings of people who post via the web

Re: Time Change (Sync)

2009-03-13 Thread Peter Bishop
Before I got here the TODs on the CPCs had always been set to local time, so it might be just a historical quirk at some installations based on the original installation choice many years ago. I remember when we changed from TOD=LOCAL to TOD=GMT+offset about 10+ years ago. Painful, but the

Re: Time Change (Sync)

2009-03-11 Thread Peter Bishop
Yep, you definitely need Coupling Links. And the STP feature is a priced one, about the same (perhaps slightly less) than the Timer. The redbooks Shane mentioned are the go. There's quite a bit to it. cheers Peter On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:41:43 +1000, Shane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: And I

Re: Native 3592 tape and TS7700

2009-02-26 Thread Peter Bishop
Hi, I believe the answer is no, but will be interested to hear if anyone has accomplished this as we'd love to be able to do it here to get over a short-term hump. best regards Peter Bishop Opinions are my own and not my employer's

Re: Native 3592 tape and TS7700

2009-02-26 Thread Peter Bishop
is that it's no different than a stand alone tape would be. In other words, it's a 'direct feed' from the tape to the host. Peter Bishop peter.bis...@eds.com 02/26/09 7:07 PM Yes, that sounds about right. I'm more familiar with STK terminology, and in STK-speak our problem seems

Re: TCP/IP

2008-11-30 Thread Peter Bishop
Hi, if I understand your question correctly, the short answer is yes. I think you're asking whether the mainline process in the concurrent server, after having got a good response to its SELECT which means that a client has made a connection to its listening socket, then passes this socket to

Re: OSA performance and utilization

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Bishop
Have you read the fine manual called OSA Express Guide and Reference (doc # SA22-7935-05)? Chapter 10 has a section on performance data which mentions the RMF interfaces and then refers you off to the RMF manuals. It also discusses how to use the HMC to get a quick overview if that's all you

Re: (off topic):Suppressing PCOMM printing request

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Bishop
Hi, it's not a direct answer to your question, but when the network folk found it too hard to stop this on one of my sessions (don't know why, something to do with USSTAB), I just decided to have it print to file rather than a printer. Naturally, I never print that particular file, and it just