abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Does anyone have an idea what the above reason code wants to tell me? According to the book, the reason code should be decoded as an LE-Message named msgCEE0510x with x denoting the severity or something. Unfortunately, I cannot find any msgCEE0510x in any LE book. We are running z/OS 1.13, and

Re: Need to move some DASD volumes that have system logger datasets on them

2013-06-21 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Or FDRPAS? And you can license both products to move a specific amount of TBs. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 03:39 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need to

Re: Need to move some DASD volumes that have system logger datasets on them

2013-06-21 Thread baby eklavya
Hi, TDMF is the best i would suggest as it handles ENQ very well. We replaced EMC box with DS8800 last year , used TDMF and moved even couple and page volumes successfully . Regards, Baby On 6/21/13, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: Or FDRPAS? And you can license both

Re: Need to move some DASD volumes that have system logger datasets on them

2013-06-21 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
TDMF and FDRPAS are equal in moving data reliably. When we moved our ESSs to DS8800, we got no recommendation that favored one over the other. You don't move data and handle their ENQs rather good or not so good, you only do it good of bad. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Anthony, the message isn't CEE5101x, it would translate to CEE0510x. Note the extra zero. If I understand the book correctly. Besides, the application isn't terminated, it loops and writes two transaction dumps per hour with the same abend code without terminating. And the application does

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

2013-06-21 Thread Dale Miller
In the mentioned article http://news.dice.com/2013/06/14/delving-into-ibms-layoff-numbers/ Scott M. replied:I worked for IBM for almost eight years, and I left because they no longer recognized the value of their experienced technical people. Very early in my IBM employment (IIRC) I wound up

free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi, My customer is looking for a freeware ZIP/UNZIP. The 2013 budget doesn't allow him to acquire a fee one apparabtly his need is now. I looked a bit around found Info-ZIP http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html IBM Ported Tools for z/OS --- Supplementary Toolkit --- bzip2

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
Barbara U4080 (X'FF0') Explanation: An error occurred, but the usual error message could not be displayed. This error occurred early during initialization or late in termination, when Language Environment could not display the message., There is a Share presentation on Debugging LE Abends

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Miklos, If you get a DUMP, there should be an Errnojr field (error information title), maybe it contains the errno and errno2. where exactly would I find that? I have several dumps to choose from, and even formatting ledata from that dump doesn't cough out any such field. The dump title was

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread Anthony Thompson
I'm wondering if CEE05101x and CEE5101x aren't the same animal. When is a leading zero significant? I don't see any CEE messages with more than 4 digits. I dearly wish LE (C/C++) return value/reason codes were documented with their numeric values, instead of having to relate a header file to a

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 03:34:44 -0500, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Possibly other tools (free, of course ;-) ) ? Advices? The jar command is free (comes with Java) but supports Unix files only: http://planetmvs.com/ibm-main/jarbatch.txt Norbert Friemel

Re: Need to move some DASD volumes that have system logger datasets on them

2013-06-21 Thread baby eklavya
may be you are right . I never worked on FDRPAS and doesn't know much abt it . I felt TDMF was pretty simple and easy to use . Thanks ! Regards, Baby On 6/21/13, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: TDMF and FDRPAS are equal in moving data reliably. When we moved our ESSs to

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I'm wondering if CEE05101x and CEE5101x aren't the same animal. When is a leading zero significant? I don't see any CEE messages with more than 4 digits. The 'reason code' explanation of u4080 explicitly says that the last digit is supposed to be ignored and only the 4 characters following

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
I have the feeling. that Antony has right, it is a CEE5101C message and the MSS mvssigsetup call failed In the DUMP verbx ledata 'all' should be the errno2 (or errno_jr or errnojr etc etc) field. I try to read the Share presentations from Mr Monti, and all others, about LE and USS debugging

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I have the feeling. that Antony has right, it is a CEE5101C message and the MSS mvssigsetup call failed In the DUMP verbx ledata 'all' should be the errno2 (or errno_jr or errnojr etc etc) field. I just (re)did the verbx ledata 'all' and did a find on errno. This is the only line that has

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

2013-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
I found the extreme bitterness of the ex-employee and ex-contractor comments that the DICE piece had elicited even more disturbing than the numbers of layoffs. Without perhaps meaning to do so, IBM has apparently fostered the growth of a strongly disaffected programming proletariat that believes

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread David Crayford
I've seen something similar when two tasks under a parent TCB both attempt to do a mvssigsetup(). The second one (attach) fails because an mvssigsetup() has already been done. To quote highlander, there can be only one! IIRC, this was two POSIX(ON) C programs in ISPF split screens. However, I

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread John McKown
In addition, for true ZIP file output, remember that the Java jar command actually reads and writes zip files. Unfortunately, it only supports z/OS UNIX files, not legacy z/OS data sets. Whether this is a bother or not depends on what the far end wants to do with the zip file contents. For the

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I've seen something similar when two tasks under a parent TCB both attempt to do a mvssigsetup(). The second one (attach) fails because an mvssigsetup() has already been done. To quote highlander, there can be only one! IIRC, this was two POSIX(ON) C programs in ISPF split screens.

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:05:30 +0200, Paolo Cacciari wrote: what about (IBM) TRSMAIN??? Should be imbedded in Z/OS release. Portability? On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 03:34:44 -0500, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Info-ZIP http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html IBM Ported Tools for z/OS ---

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread Staller, Allan
Just ran into this. Verify there is an OMVS UID/GID associated with the process. HTH, snip CEE5101C During initialization, the callable service BPX1MSS failed. The system return code was return_code; the reason code was reason_code. The application will be terminated. Explanation: The

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread David Crayford
On 21/06/2013 8:17 PM, nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: I've seen something similar when two tasks under a parent TCB both attempt to do a mvssigsetup(). The second one (attach) fails because an mvssigsetup() has already been done. To quote highlander, there can be only one! IIRC, this was two POSIX(ON)

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:12:08 -0500, John McKown wrote: In addition, for true ZIP file output, remember that the Java jar command actually reads and writes zip files. Unfortunately, it only supports z/OS UNIX files, not legacy z/OS data sets. Whether this is a bother or not depends on what the far

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread David Crayford
On 21/06/2013 8:17 PM, nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: I've seen something similar when two tasks under a parent TCB both attempt to do a mvssigsetup(). The second one (attach) fails because an mvssigsetup() has already been done. To quote highlander, there can be only one! IIRC, this was two POSIX(ON)

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Check out the sample zip program supplied with JZOS - com.ibm.jzos.sample.ZipDatasets in jzos_sample.jar. it works with both MVS and unix files and the best thing is that for MVS input files, only the high level qualifier has to be specified in the parm field (no DD statements) and all files

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

2013-06-21 Thread Peter Eggebeen
I found the extreme bitterness of the ex-employee and ex-contractor comments that the DICE piece had elicited even more disturbing than the numbers of layoffs. I found the same to be true at my last company. One of the biggest things the company underestimated as they made cuts was the change in

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Any chance to format the component trace COMP(SYSOMVS) SUBNAME((SYSCAL)) ? On 21.06.2013 13:14, nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: I have the feeling. that Antony has right, it is a CEE5101C message and the MSS mvssigsetup call failed In the DUMP verbx ledata 'all' should be the errno2 (or errno_jr

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Just ran into this. Verify there is an OMVS UID/GID associated with the process. I just set a slip trap that will capture me the OMVS address space data at the next recurrance to verify exactly that. One would think that given OMVS's prevalence in todays systems there would be a dump option

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread John McKown
I should have mentioned that GIMZIP is really only for transport to another z/OS system, not to anything else. I don't know about the ubiquity of Java on z/OS or the familiarity (or lack thereof) with the jar command. I can't judge based on my shop because we are firmly set in a 1980s (or earlier)

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

2013-06-21 Thread John McKown
Total agreement. Same has/is going on here. On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Peter Eggebeen peter.eggeb...@kohls.comwrote: I found the extreme bitterness of the ex-employee and ex-contractor comments that the DICE piece had elicited even more disturbing than the numbers of layoffs. I found

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

2013-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John McKown wrote: Total agreement. Same has/is going on here. True. I can name some companies, but I had rather STFU. ;-) About IBM, I learned the term 'Dead Wood'. The last 20 years, I know that IBM get rid of 'dead wood' just to do headhunting all over again. It is about ups and downs in

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Any chance to format the component trace COMP(SYSOMVS) SUBNAME((SYSCAL)) ? First dump: ADCD113 SYSCALL 0F080001 17:09:13.929282 STANDARD SYSCALL ENTRY TRACE ASID..0041 USERIDx STACK§20BC8048 TCB...008ADAE8

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:55:23 +, Barkow, Eileen wrote: Check out the sample zip program supplied with JZOS - com.ibm.jzos.sample.ZipDatasets in jzos_sample.jar. it works with both MVS and unix files and the best thing is that for MVS input files, only the high level qualifier has to be

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Itschak Mugzach
As far as i know, ibm supplies free zip program to zip the usage report. Itschaj בתאריך 21 ביונ 2013 16:08, מאת John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com: I should have mentioned that GIMZIP is really only for transport to another z/OS system, not to anything else. I don't know about the

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
I would say:009c( errno:156 EMVSINITIAL) and errno2: 0d070200 JRPswKeyNotValid: The PSW key of the caller is not a valid key Action: A service was requested that requires the invoker to be in the same key that the process was dubbed under. If we are happy about this =-O On 21.06.2013

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I would say:009c( errno:156 EMVSINITIAL) and errno2: 0d070200 JRPswKeyNotValid: The PSW key of the caller is not a valid key Action: A service was requested that requires the invoker to be in the same key that the process was dubbed under. If we are happy about this =-O Thanks a

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Roland Kinsman
From: Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:34:59 -0500 Posted link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#External_links Thanks, Mike. I did see the EBCDIC article, but I did not notice the link near the bottom. But I think this merits a separate article, and I might

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

2013-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
I have received a number of private emails, too many, concurring with my sad appraisal from people who presumably did not think it prudent to concur publicly on IBM-MAIN. Too much employee security in the traditional western European manner is said by free-market economists to be economically

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Roland Kinsman
So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable to hackers. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

2013-06-21 Thread Dana Mitchell
As an exIBMer, I've ceased being amazed, but continue to be apalled. IBM issued a statement from spokesman Douglas Shelton: Change is constant in the technology industry and transformation is an essential feature of our business model. Consequently, some level of workforce remix is a constant

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
Neither EBCDIC nor ASCII is a very good SBCS, but this is in some considerable measure because no SBCS can be a very good one. 256 code points is not enough. For the usual reasons, talked about here in other contexts in recent days, the industry has been resistant to adopting DBCSs and MBCSs;

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Robert Galambos
Actually I would say its that the Operating system has been in 'development'/available for more then 50 years. more time to get it right. Then is the aspect that in the earlier years there was less of a push for getting out the door, because there was not the same level of competition. The

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
rjkins...@hotmail.com (Roland Kinsman) writes: So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable to hackers. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix 1) lots of attacks are

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I use _BPX_SHAREAS=REUSE in my profiles Thanks Paul for the info about ZipDatsets - I was only going by what I run based on the documentation given with the JZOS sample programs several years ago. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:00:36 -0500, Roland Kinsman wrote: I wonder if having EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable to hackers. The character encoding that is used is irrelevant. The thing that makes an operating system less penetrable is a design that is based

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2013-06-21, at 08:23, Barkow, Eileen wrote: I use _BPX_SHAREAS=REUSE in my profiles I was unfamiliar with REUSE. But somewhere I find REUSE is the same as YES. Thanks Paul for the info about ZipDatsets - I was only going by what I run based on the documentation given with the JZOS

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-21 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Actually, US companies have also stolen software.  I will not go into details, but it has happened at a company that I worked for.  One of their customers stole the software for at least a couple of years until we changed how our license key was generated.   Lloyd - Original Message -

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:34:57 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Where do I find this thing? How do I use it? Do I need to export a CLASSPATH? Do I need to put something else in my PATH? do I need to be a member of developerworks? (I don't do much Java.) Sample JZOS Java programs @

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Gil, You need to download the jzos samples from http://www.dovetail.com/ You do not need JZOS to run ZipDatasets or the other samples - just the jar file. The samples are java programs that can be run from OMVS or OSHELL in batch. You will need the java compiler in your path and

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 03:34:44 -0500, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: My customer is looking for a freeware ZIP/UNZIP. The 2013 budget doesn't allow him to acquire a fee one apparabtly his need is now. Perhaps your customer could use pax. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

2013-06-21 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 6/21/2013 7:03 AM, Dana Mitchell wrote: IBM issued a statement from spokesman Douglas Shelton: Change is constant in the technology industry and transformation is an essential feature of our business model. Consequently, some level of workforce remix is a constant requirement for our

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:42:50 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:12:08 -0500, John McKown wrote: For the truly advanced person, GIMZIP is a very powerful way to package up z/OS legacy data sets (sequential, PDS, and VSAM) as well as UNIX resident files.

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#3 Ported Tools - Unix http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#10 EBCDIC and the P-Bit of course there was also some amount of rivalry between the 5th flr (multics) and 4th flr (cp/67). they (also) had a lot of very security oriented customers. recent

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:05:16 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: This is not correct, Paul. The data would be extracted using GIMUNZIP, and AFAIK, they are not encoded with GIMDTS. I'll stand corrected for relying on outdated or incomplete information or poor memory and inexperience. We've never

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
The ZipDatasets sample code is an example of using java.util.zip along with (many of) the JZOS dataset APIs. For accessing DDs, you would typically run it under the JZOS batch launcher which handles running java in the original address space. Source code is included, so you are welcome to adapt

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I don't find it there. And it's strange that IBM should supply documentation for a Dovetailed product. On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:55:15 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote: Sample JZOS Java programs @ http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/products/jzos/overvie w.html I see several

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Mark Jacobs
I'm not usually this dense but is this class and samples in the IBM shipped JDK, or is it a separate download? I can't seem to locate it. Mark Jacobs On 06/21/13 12:09, Kirk Wolf wrote: The ZipDatasets sample code is an example of using java.util.zip along with (many of) the JZOS dataset

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4852640027344074.wa.vanbrabantjangmail@listserv.ua.edu, on 06/21/2013 at 03:34 AM, Jan Vanbrabant vanbrabant...@gmail.com said: Any experiences to share? I've used Info-Zip happily on OS/2 for decades. I don't have experience with the MVS version. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
There is a link to the samples download from the main IBM JZOS page: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/products/jzos/overview.html This also contains links to download javadoc, read javadoc online, etc Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jun 21, 2013

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-21 Thread Barry Merrill
At the first SAS User Meeting in Germany after the wall fell, an East German techie presented himself to the MD of SAS Europe and reported that he had been responsible for distributing SAS in all of the Eastern block countries. The limiting factor on distribution was the need for 15 PC stiffie

Re: Need to move some DASD volumes that have system logger datasets on them

2013-06-21 Thread Darby, Jim
No we don't have either TDMF or FDRPAS. I've moved most of the array by doing full volume copies durring down time, but I've got a few left that are allocated to some basic system stuff. Thanks for the suggestions. Jim -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8709522170369998.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on 06/21/2013 at 09:34 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com said: The character encoding that is used is irrelevant. The thing that makes an operating system less penetrable is a design that is based upon system integrity.

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Robert Prins
On 2013-06-21 12:18, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:05:30 +0200, Paolo Cacciari wrote: what about (IBM) TRSMAIN??? Should be imbedded in Z/OS release. Portability? TERSE (terse unterse) is available for many platforms, DOS, doze, OS2, AIC, OSX, Linux...

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 6/21/2013 1:07 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: OS/360 was a swiss chees, but, as you noted, not because of the character set. 05F0 0A0C Just 0A0C will do it, but unfortunately it takes (nearly) forever - I tried it once, either on a 360/50 or 65, and it took just over four

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 6/21/2013 10:00 AM, Roland Kinsman wrote: So, this is going to sound extremely naïve, but I wonder if having EBCDIC instead of ASCII helped make IBM mainframe OS less penetrable to hackers. As Shmuel noted, early S/360 operating systems had very little protection. The earliest lacked

Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-06-21 Thread Clark Morris
On 19 Jun 2013 10:26:45 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Graham, I believe RDz 7.6 does include the COBOL compiler, even 8.0 does. You just have to install and run on XP Pro. I have not tried what Barry mentions, running XP compatible virtual process under Windows 7. I have a

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-06-21 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 15:18 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: And IBM thinks COBOL is the language of the future. Right and I sell bridges. Well... that's what Tom Ross says anyway. You'd dispute Tom? -- David Andrews A. Duda Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
There is some considerable evidence that Soviet-bloc software was pirated by Western intelligence agencies too. I should have been both surprised and disappointed if it had not been. This thread has veered close to disagreeable chauvinism: the notion that any country or bloc of them has a corner

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Ed Finnell
I remember the 'security paper' CIA published after MVS got B1 rating. There was a tuning paper that came out about the same time. One was green and one was yellow. Anyway, long story short, last paragraph in security report says if it's attached to a network none of this applies In a

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-21 Thread Phil Smith
John Gilmore wrote: There is some considerable evidence that Soviet-bloc software was pirated by Western intelligence agencies too. I should have been both surprised and disappointed if it had not been. This thread has veered close to disagreeable chauvinism: the notion that any country or bloc

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:56:54 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Reading further, the only mentions of UNIX files are in (abridged): 11.7.2.2 FILEDEF Tag syntax README indicates that the associated file is a sequential text data set or a file in the UNIX file system that is intended to be

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-21 Thread Scott Ford
Barry, That doesn't surprise me i was in Switzerland during that timeframe we had offices in 56 countries , saw a lot of strange things ..especially in the old Eastern Block countries Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Jun 21, 2013, at

free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

2013-06-21 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi, My customer is looking for a freeware ZIP/UNZIP. The 2013 budget doesn't allow him to acquire a fee one. I looked a bit around found Info-ZIP http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/Zip.html IBM Ported Tools for z/OS --- Supplementary Toolkit --- bzip2

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1371825433.55766.yahoomail...@web181402.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 06/21/2013 at 07:37 AM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net said: Actually, US companies have also stolen software. E.g., microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_lawsuit. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:01:50 +0200, Barbara wrote: Did I mention that CEEDUMPs or even transaction dumps written by LE are useless? They must never have heard about first failure data capture. They don't capture the right data at the 166th occurance! And yes, I do expect woes with this

REXX Socket Calls

2013-06-21 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Is it still true you can't encrypt (i.e. SSL) Socket Calls in REXX? I have some code which does a HTML GET on a webpage on port 80 and the webmasters want me to run it on port 443 encrypted now.I've been doing google searches and I found an older reference to it doesn't support it, but

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
efinnel...@aol.com (Ed Finnell) writes: I remember the 'security paper' CIA published after MVS got B1 rating. There was a tuning paper that came out about the same time. One was green and one was yellow. Anyway, long story short, last paragraph in security report says if it's

Re: XCF / GRS

2013-06-21 Thread Roger Steyn
That's a nice article . Thanks Chris ! From: Chris Brooker cbro...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 7:04 PM Subject: Re: XCF / GRS Hi Augie, You may already now about this, but the GRS team wrote a Hot Topics Article