Re: Printing limits and userids

2012-03-30 Thread Staller, Allan
of large reports in our MVS spool. Any suggestions on limiting users from printing large reports by their userids, or a way to differentiate between valid print processing and potentially erroneous print processing by report name with JES2? A 50,000 page report may be valid if coming from a production

Re: Printing limits and userids

2012-03-30 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
-406-1208 dave.l.han...@usps.gov -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Printing limits and userids I can't think of any way to do

Re: Printing limits and userids

2012-03-30 Thread Linda Mooney
from it.  HTH, Linda - Original Message - From: Dave L - Eagan Hansen, MN dave.l.han...@usps.gov To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 2:29:29 PM Subject: Printing limits and userids Group,   We have a lot of large reports in our MVS spool.  Any suggestions

Printing limits and userids

2012-03-29 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Group, We have a lot of large reports in our MVS spool. Any suggestions on limiting users from printing large reports by their userids, or a way to differentiate between valid print processing and potentially erroneous print processing by report name with JES2? A 50,000 page report may

Re: Printing limits and userids

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Douglas (CITEC)
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN Sent: Friday, 30 March 2012 7:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Printing limits and userids Group, We have a lot of large reports in our MVS spool. Any

Matching IP address with TSO userids

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Mason
All attracted to the Subject line This was a question and single limited-scope response picked up in a Google Groups digest but *not* found in the archives. - Robert (and Taltyman) Is there an easy way ... This depends on your definition of easy! ... of matching the IP addresses returned

Fw: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
This was intended for the list - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -Original Message- From: Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:44:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Numeric TSO Userids I don't think RACF restricts you to 7-character userids. We have a bunch

Re: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-23 Thread Mark Wilson
that you might have 7 digit Userids when we created ACF2. That, it works, is a surprise to me. I guess that by bypassing UADS, nobody checks -- but RACF obviously does. Interesting, Barry. RACF doesn't check, and fully supports numeric user IDs. It has to be a TSO/E restriction, and I'm

Re: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-23 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Gee, who in the first place decided to use numeric userids, possibly supported by ACF2, but not by the rest of MVS? Sounds like allowing Syncsort options and then return to DFSORT, or allow PDSFAST options and then return to IEBCOPY or... If you did already prefix the userid with an Alpha

Re: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-23 Thread Mark Wilson
Kees, I cannot name names as they are still here :). I cannot change the numeric Users as the bussiness apps (none TSO) have it hard coded to support only numeric users. I have a work around which is two userids with password sync using RACF RACLINK. But this means changing Multsess to prefix

Re: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Wilson All, From the research I have done I agree with Walt in that it¹s a TSO restriction. If you logon (Full screen mode) and enter a numeric Userid you get the not valid message, press F1 and there

FW: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-22 Thread Mark Wilson
of migrating a customer from ACF2 to RACF and have encountered a problem. ACF2 supports the use of fully numeric TSO Userids. The customer has an exit in place that forces all dataset allocations to be prefixed with a Alpha character, getting around the dataset issues. However, if I migrate them to RACF

Re: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-22 Thread Itschak Mugzach
22, 2008 9:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FW: Numeric TSO Userids Cross Posted to RACF-L and re posted to IBM Main Could anybody offer any ideas at all in this area? Regards Mark

Re: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-22 Thread Itschak Mugzach
: www.Securiteam.co.il | -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Wilson Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: FW: Numeric TSO Userids Cross Posted to RACF-L and re posted to IBM Main Could anybody offer any ideas

Re: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: RACF Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doc Farmer Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: Numeric TSO Userids As Bender of Futurama might say, We're Boned! Sorry, the Wonderful Wizards of HASP decided

Re: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-22 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: RACF Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Numeric TSO Userids SNIP If TSS could do it, then why couldn't it be done in a RACF environment? ISPF shouldn't

Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-19 Thread Mark Wilson
Hi, I am in the middle of migrating a customer from ACF2 to RACF and have encountered a problem. ACF2 supports the use of fully numeric TSO Userids. The customer has an exit in place that forces all dataset allocations to be prefixed with a Alpha character, getting around the dataset issues

Re: Numeric TSO Userids

2008-07-19 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Mark Wilson wrote: However, if I migrate them to RACF, TSO does NOT support a fully numeric Userid. The closest you could come is to maintain an all-numeric logon in a pre-logon exit (examples on the CBT), and convert that to an id acceptable by TSO and RACF internally. If the clients run

z/OS 1.9 - STC userIDs - RACF OMVS segments

2008-05-29 Thread Chase, John
have one with a GID). With z/OS becoming ever more tightly integrated with the UNIX side of things, might it be wise to create OMVS segments for all STC userIDs now? Corollary question: Are there any UNIX-y things more-or-less commonly used in z/OS that WILL NOT RUN without UID = 0? BTW, ISPF

Re: z/OS 1.9 - STC userIDs - RACF OMVS segments

2008-05-29 Thread Hal Merritt
List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 9:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS 1.9 - STC userIDs - RACF OMVS segments Hi, All, We just IPLed z/OS 1.9 in the sandbox, and among the new stuff we noticed was an ICH408I message for the TMON userID

RACF, Cloning Userids ADCD

2008-03-18 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi, On the general question of is there a sure-fire way of cloning a userid within RACF, I cannot provide an answer but am able to offer insight I think based on experience with the ADCD and a smattering of knowledge gained in such an environment. Remember that Userids in RACF belong to Groups

pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application - final status

2007-07-14 Thread McKown, John
Just to recap what I'm doing. I'm writing a Java application which runs basically where ever Java can run. My target is for the desktop environment (Windows, Linux, Mac). Part of the functionality is to do ftp transfer. This is done by filling in the host, port number, userid, and password on a

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-13 Thread tony babonas
..) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Crow Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 6:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Crow
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth E Tomiak Sent: 12 July 2007 00:07 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application. What I may do is to have a button like Validate host

Re: SPAM: Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-12 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip- In terms of validation, I was more thinking along the lines of I know that RACF ids can be a maximum of 8 characters, and are composed of the characters A-Z,@#$,0-9. So I'll check that the id doesn't contain anything else. I don't consider this a

pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread McKown, John
password phrases (or whatever they're calling them now). But the userid remains a question. Should I help the user by double checking for possible bad userids (too long, bad characters), assuming that the userid criteria in RACF is unlikely to ever change? Or should I just pass along whatever the user

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
to the recent updating of RACF to accept lower case passwords as well as very long password phrases (or whatever they're calling them now). But the userid remains a question. Should I help the user by double checking for possible bad userids (too long, bad characters), assuming that the userid criteria in RACF

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:00:04 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I help the user by double checking for possible bad userids (too long, bad characters), assuming that the userid criteria in RACF is unlikely to ever change? Or should I just pass along whatever the user types

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Lyon Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application. On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:00:04 -0500, McKown

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Lyon Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application. On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:00:04 -0500

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Aaron Walker
I think I would agree with those who are saying Don't mess with it, not only because it might help the cracker, but also you may be eliding your own security policy. You (hopefully) put a lot of thought into your RACF policy, so let RACF do it's job. If people get bit/revoked because they

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:55:26 -0500, McKown, John wrote: In terms of validation, I was more thinking along the lines of I know that RACF ids can be a maximum of 8 characters, and are composed of the characters A-Z,@#$,0-9. So I'll check that the id doesn't contain anything else. I don't consider

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
What I may do is to have a button like Validate host / userid / password so that the user can click that and attempt to connect to the host using the given userid and password. If the logon fails, I'll report that to the user. If the user doesn't want to valid at that time, then it is his

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
, to convert to ASIS mode. Then, all upstream folding utilities must be rewritten and users must learn to lean on the SHIFT key until they change their passwords to adapt. The same applies to userids. I believe there is no support for mixed case userids, but RACF should, as a courtesy, fold them also

Re: pre-validating RACF userids and passwords in application.

2007-07-11 Thread Walt Farrell
will upper-case it when configured for mixed-case. The same applies to userids. I believe there is no support for mixed case userids, but RACF should, as a courtesy, fold them also to avoid replication of code upstream and to allow for mixed case userids in some future era. Good suggestion

Re: Mixed case userids in z/OS RACF

2006-08-08 Thread Walt Farrell
On 8/8/2006 5:19 PM, Steve Myers wrote: Do z/OS and RACF support mixed case userids. RACF command processors do not support the creation of mixed-case user IDs. Technically you could create them using the lower level interface ICHEINTY. However, it's unlikely that you'd get all the data

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-10 Thread Bruce Black
Michigan has a town called Hell and Pennsylvania has one called Intercourse. Intercourse, PA is very close to Blue Ball, PA. In the Cayman Islands, they have a town named Hell (because of the strange, hellish rock formations there). Their principle industry is the post office/gift shop,

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-10 Thread Howard Brazee
On 10-Jun-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Black) wrote: Intercourse, PA is very close to Blue Ball, PA. In the Cayman Islands, they have a town named Hell (because of the strange, hellish rock formations there). Their principle industry is the post office/gift shop, where you can mail post

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Cartwright
In the seventies at IBM Havant one of the sysprogs got a German transit plate with the number MFT 11. Sadly I am old enough to remember the judge's words at the Jeremy Thorpe trial, commenting on one of the many unsavoury characters; The sort of man who has personalised number plates. DC

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-09 Thread Bill Fairchild
In a message dated 6/8/2005 5:50:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: think I once read or was once told by someone that, in the US, you could have any vehicle licence plate as long as it was no more than eight characters, and didn't even have to be unique Our U.S.

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-09 Thread Jay Maynard
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:04:39AM -0400, Bill Fairchild wrote: But still the character string appearing on the plate must be unique within each state. At least I have never heard of one of our states' allowing non-unique values in the vehicle license number field. While this is pretty much

Re: REXX under TSO [WAS: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]]

2005-06-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/08/2005 at 04:39 PM, Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not too long after the original implementation, TSOE Rexx was enhanced to be able to use more customary I/O logic: OPEN, READ, READ,...CLOSE. FSVO customary; it still supported only EXECIO and still didn't

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/08/2005 at 07:15 PM, Keith E. Moe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have Mainframe vanity plates on both my vehicles. Well, I have SPFH on mine, but I'm jealous of the guy that owns the van with PEDANT. A friend has or had MVCK, after an encounter with bad microcode. --

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-09 Thread Howard Brazee
On 8-Jun-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jay Maynard) wrote: The length varies from state to state, from 6 (Texas being the best example) to 8 (California). There are also other restrictions: nothing obscene, nothing that looks like a sequential plate from one of a whole bunch of series, that kind

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-09 Thread Howard Brazee
On 9-Jun-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote: Our U.S. Constitution of 1787 says that the laws of individual states outrank wannabe laws of the national government except for the very few cases specifically written in the same quaint document. That was the 10th

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-09 Thread Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/09/2005 at 03:07 PM, Perryman, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There was a famous case several years back (mid-1990s?) when AOL launched their services here in the UK and the signup process wouldn't accept anyone from Scunthorpe. Michigan has a town called Hell and

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Eric Chevalier
On 7 Jun 2005 16:44:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leonard Woren) wrote: Once while driving near LAX I saw SYSUT2. I assume that was the household's second car... And years ago, driving around the Marina Del Rey area of Los Angeles, I spotted a car with the plates: IEFBR14. Wonder what that

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Jon Brock
I should get one that says 2086A04 or some such. Or maybe DINO. Jon snip I saw that one. That was one I wanted to get when I lived in California, along with IFOX00 and IEV90, both of which were also taken. I noticed that my vanity plate, which I released in 1991 and became available in 1998,

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Powers, Carol A - CNF
@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids] I should get one that says 2086A04 or some such. Or maybe DINO. Jon snip I saw that one. That was one I wanted to get when I lived in California, along with IFOX00 and IEV90, both of which were

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE : Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Campbell Jay
replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids] In a message dated 6/8/2005 12:32:14 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An IBM PSR had C2D1C3 which were her initials in hex - it's still my favorite (not sure about the J, but the B and C are right). C DE

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE : Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/8/2005 12:44:34 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something obviously threw your alignment off So much fun, shouldn't have even tried. Thought if I did only spaces and fixed Font it would be OKAY, but NO! Have a good one

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE : Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Campbell Jay
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 1:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE : Userids] In a message dated 6/8/2005 12:44:34

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Porowski, Ken
Always had a preference for S22F myself ... did see IEF450I on a plate once. -Original Message- Jon Brock I should get one that says 2086A04 or some such. Or maybe DINO. Jon snip I saw that one. That was one I wanted to get when I lived in California, along with IFOX00 and IEV90,

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Reed Starnes
BTW I would love to have MVS 310E as my car number plate DB2 GUY Arnie Cashinghino, founder of the CBT Tape, had TURKEY for a license plate. The Turkey is the MVS symbol at SHARE. Once while driving near LAX I saw SYSUT2. I assume that was the household's second car... And that the

Re: IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Jay Maynard
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:50:22PM +0100, Perryman, Brian wrote: I think I once read or was once told by someone that, in the US, you could have any vehicle licence plate as long as it was no more than eight characters, and didn't even have to be unique - by far and away the most popular being

Re: REXX under TSO [WAS: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]]

2005-06-08 Thread Skip Robinson
EXECIO in the early TSOE days supported only reading an entire file into an array in one shot. While VM seemed to have no gag reflex, TSOE would choke of files of substantial size. It was also awkward to convert a CLIST to a Rexx because the I/O logic was so different. Not too long after the

IBM MF-theme vanity plates (was RE: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-08 Thread Keith E. Moe
I have Mainframe vanity plates on both my vehicles. When I moved to California in 1976, it was to work for Amdahl, so I got NONIBM. (Remember, back then there wasn't Microsoft, Sun, etc.). I still have it, although on a some newer vehicle. And it's still appropriate, as I now work for BMC

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-07 Thread Horne, Jim - James S
Respectfully, I must disagree. The introduction of REXX was independent of MVS introducing releases. TSO V2 introduced REXX to the MVS world. It did have a prerequisite of XA, not ESA. When I went to work as a contractor at a large azure, software/hardware manufacturer in 1990, their MVS/XA

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-07 Thread Martin Packer
Make that VLF rather than LLA. This week I can blame it on jetlag rather than an actual senior moment. Those are still ahead of me, I hope. :-) Martin Martin Packer, MBCS CITPMartin Packer/UK/IBM 020-8832-5167 in the UK (+44) (MOBX 273643, Internal 7-325167, Mobile

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
... BTW I would love to have MVS 310E as my car number plate ... A guy I worked with had DB2 GUY Because of DB2, he went from an entry-level to a senior sysprog. -teD (The secret to success is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made!)

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-07 Thread Ed Gould
on 6/6/05 7:54 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/06/2005 at 09:45 AM, Horne, Jim - James S [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Rexx under TSO was available as of TSO v2. On VM,it was available by VM/SP release 3 - I don't think it was in release 2.

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-07 Thread Leonard Woren
BTW I would love to have MVS 310E as my car number plate DB2 GUY Arnie Cashinghino, founder of the CBT Tape, had TURKEY for a license plate. The Turkey is the MVS symbol at SHARE. Once while driving near LAX I saw SYSUT2. I assume that was the household's second car... /Leonard

Re: REXX under TSO [WAS: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]]

2005-06-07 Thread Ed Gould
on 6/6/05 7:00 PM, Ted MacNEIL at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I remember it becoming available in either 1991 or 1992 (early). ... I wrote my first REXX programme in 197x(??). I wrote my first TSO/REXX in 1990. EXECIO only supported FB80. -teD (The secret to success is sincerity.

Re: Userids

2005-06-06 Thread Ulrich Boche
Eric Bielefeld wrote: We still use UADS. All new userids being set up in the last 5 or so years go into RACF, but we have never converted all of the old ids from uads. That leaves me as the only person at our shop who understands uads, and I can't remember as well. (I do know where to look

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... [1] All the way back to MVS/XA; my recollection is TSO/E 2.4, but ICBW. ... I don't remember seeing REXX under TSO until 3.1.0e. But, I could be wrong. It was standard on MVS/ESA 3. It was optional under MVS/XA 2.

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-06 Thread Horne, Jim - James S
Rexx under TSO was available as of TSO v2. On VM,it was available by VM/SP release 3 - I don't think it was in release 2. Jim Horne Lowe's Companies, Inc. It was standard on MVS/ESA 3. It was optional under MVS/XA 2. Some shops I was at had it, some didn't.

Re: Userids

2005-06-06 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leonard Woren Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 7:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Userids On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:00:01PM -0700, Skip Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/05/2005 at 09:32 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If the argument to such commands is, properly, a session ID (TSU) as opposed to a user ID, TSUn is a jobid, not a session id, and did not exist when TSO first came out. From OS/360 20.1 through

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-05 Thread Walt Farrell
On 6/2/2005 12:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note unmask] said: Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:12:36 -0700 If anything, maybe someone thought that the shell environment for z/OS UNIX (back then called MVS Open Edition) would be a viable replacement. In some ways it is. A

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/03/2005 at 11:03 AM, andrew mcintyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The TSO host command environment has been in REXX for years and years. It's documented as far back as OS/390 V2R4 and probably further. An environment to allow REXX to issue TSO commands was in TSO/E as

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
... [1] All the way back to MVS/XA; my recollection is TSO/E 2.4, but ICBW. ... I don't remember seeing REXX under TSO until 3.1.0e. But, I could be wrong. I used it under VM/CMS since the mid-to-late 1970's. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Userids

2005-06-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/31/2005 at 05:36 PM, Chiam, Susan Mee-Shia [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We have a request to look into utilising 8-chars userids. First reaction from the team was 'No', but we have to put forward our arguments. So we need to put up a list of 'pros' and 'cons

Re: Userids

2005-06-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/02/2005 at 12:49 PM, Low, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My boss asked me about this the other day. We have Top Secret yet we have been maintaining UADS for all our userids. Is this unnecessary? There is no technical reason to have anything but emergency user ids

Re: Userids

2005-06-03 Thread Eric Bielefeld
We still use UADS. All new userids being set up in the last 5 or so years go into RACF, but we have never converted all of the old ids from uads. That leaves me as the only person at our shop who understands uads, and I can't remember as well. (I do know where to look though). In our case, I

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-03 Thread andrew mcintyre
Make this specifically run time libraries for X11 and Curses in ASCII mode. Hasn't that already been done? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1D341/6.0?SHELF= F1A1BK51DT=20050121145751 Andrew McIntyre - Senior

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-03 Thread andrew mcintyre
With z/OS 1.5, Rexx now has the address TSO environment, which starts a captive TSO TMP address space (with no display). The TSO host command environment has been in REXX for years and years. It's documented as far back as OS/390 V2R4 and probably further. Unless you are talking about

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, andrew mcintyre said: Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:03:56 -0400 With z/OS 1.5, Rexx now has the address TSO environment, which starts a captive TSO TMP address space (with no display). The TSO host command environment has been in REXX for years and years. It's

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-03 Thread andrew mcintyre
Where does that say ASCII? It says it here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1D341/6.1.7?SHEL F=F1A1BK51DT=20050121145751 Where does that say Curses and ASCII? It doesn't. However, there are many open source versions of Curses for X11.

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, andrew mcintyre said: Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:42:02 -0400 Note the revision bars. Compare to edition for z/OS 1.3, or in I had seen that in the USS manuals but outside of USS, does it have any use? Why does that matter? The topic of the thread is TSO

Re: Userids

2005-06-03 Thread Skip Robinson
. That takes care of Day 1 of the New Era. How about Day 2, Day 200, etc. In other words, how do you manage RACF defined userids? - Create new - Modify existing - Query - Delete For both Create and Modify, you have several 'attributes' to deal with: - Account numbers - Logon procs - Authority

TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
their intentions on this subject? Or is it like the theater-owner's line from Shakespeare In Love: Is a mystery? Peter -Original Message- From: Ed Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 9:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Userids Snipped Gil, You are beating

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
; replace them, not soon, if ever. Peter -Original Message- From: McKown, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids] Snipped Perhaps IBM is really wanting to push WSED (WebSphere Studio

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Dave Salt
From: McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps IBM is really wanting to push WSED (WebSphere Studio Enterprise Developer)? I don't know much about it, but it appears to be some sort of Microsoft Windows based GUI development that interfaces with some WebSphere thingie on z/OS. This may explain the

Re: Userids

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Yuhas
John Eels queried why we are still using UADS? I tried to convert to using our security software, but, was outvoted. You pick your battles, you win your wars. Or, in my case, you get to survive. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
be used, along with all of the GNU applications and utilities. IMHO, of course. Peter -Original Message- From: Edward E. Jaffe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids] Snipped WSED cannot

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note unmask] said: Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:12:36 -0700 If anything, maybe someone thought that the shell environment for z/OS UNIX (back then called MVS Open Edition) would be a viable replacement. In some ways it is. A fantasy, based on this. With z/OS 1.5, Rexx now

Re: Userids

2005-06-02 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Low, David wrote: My boss asked me about this the other day. We have Top Secret yet we have been maintaining UADS for all our userids. Is this unnecessary? I guess I should go RTF TSS manuals. Totally unnecessary. UADS is needed only for the emergency User ID -- used when no security

Re: Userids

2005-06-02 Thread Craig Kittendorf
using UADS. Craig -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Low, David Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Userids John Eels queried why we are still using UADS? I tried to convert to using

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:39:43 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it chokes a T-rex (i.e., get rid of all the busy-wait loops), and not until X11 is ported and supported fully so that KDE and/or gnome GUI environments can be used, along with all of the GNU applications and

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Howard Brazee
On 2-Jun-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote: When IBM semi announced that TSO was dead the first question was what was the replacement? We did not get an answer or even a hint. One of my IBM sources said they were working on a *COMPLETE* replacement but did not elaborate. The trouble

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Howard Brazee wrote: ...So IBM is better off if we don't hear that TSO is going away - at least until their salesmen have something better to show us. In this case, it's been 10-15 years in the waiting! -- - | Edward E.

Re: Userids

2005-06-02 Thread Low, David
Totally unnecessary. UADS is needed only for the emergency User ID -- used when no security product is available. Wow. That's very good to know, thanks. Dave Low -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward E. Jaffe Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids] McKown, John wrote: Perhaps IBM is really wanting

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Ed Gould
on 6/2/05 12:02 PM, Howard Brazee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2-Jun-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote: When IBM semi announced that TSO was dead the first question was what was the replacement? We did not get an answer or even a hint. One of my IBM sources said they were working

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: It also has the ability to open up a standard TSO session via TN3270E as well as other 3270 applications, using Host On Demand: This is necessary because WSED cannot be considered a general TSO/ISPF replacement. --

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, McKown, John said: Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:23:06 -0500 It also has the ability to open up a standard TSO session via TN3270E as well as other 3270 applications, using Host On Demand: What if the user is already logged on to TSO on another terminal? One of the

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

2005-06-02 Thread Steve Grimes
I've heard ROSCOE may make a comeback! (Is it Friday yet?) Stg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Userids

2005-06-02 Thread Tony Babonas
: Userids No, it is not necessary to maintain UADS for users defined in Top Secret. There is even a provided utility to convert your UADS to TSS. Once a TSO segment is added to a TSS acid, if the user is defined in UADS, it will be ignored for that acid. There are some functions which can

Re: Userids

2005-06-02 Thread Ed Gould
userids. It was only after giving them strict guidelines and a physical threat to cut off certain pieces of their body did I let go. I still had final OK but let them do most of the work. The systems group maintain the responsibility for defining their alias in the mastercat(s). Ed

Re: Userids

2005-06-01 Thread Mark Yuhas
If one browses SYS1.UADS, one will notice that each member name/TSO User ID has been suffixed with the character '0'. Since the maximum length of the member name is 8 bytes and since ACCOUNT adds a '0' to TSO User ID, the maximum length of a TSO User ID is 7. At least, this is what I have

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