Re: CP Assist for Cryptographic Functions (CPACF)

2015-09-26 Thread Greg Boyd
Cipher Feedack Mode in the hardware was introduced with MSA-4 which came with the z196/z114 machines. That means that these machines (and later) support new assembler instructions that prefrom chaining operations: KMF (Cipher Message with CFB (Cipher Feedback Mode)), KMCTR (Cipher Message

Re: Setting the writers right

2015-09-26 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, I would think we need some leverage like you mentioned in Share. I haven't be fortunate enough to go. It was obvious that the CIO they spoke of had an axe to grind and didn't know what she was speaking about. Regards, Scott On Saturday, September 26, 2015, Charles Mills

Re: Setting the writers right

2015-09-26 Thread Clark Morris
On 26 Sep 2015 15:22:33 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Charles, > >I read the article, I said "what does COBOL have to do with Security"? Probably nothing but if the applications predate the major interest in security, they may not have the proper security checking. I would have to

Re: Setting the writers right

2015-09-26 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, I read the article, I said "what does COBOL have to do with Security"? Scott On Saturday, September 26, 2015, Charles Mills wrote: > "... the OPM is facing a huge problem with modernizing its security > measures > and tactics because of one acronym: COBOL. The

Re: Setting the writers right

2015-09-26 Thread Charles Mills
A lot now -- in peoples' minds -- after they read articles like that. Who would like to help save the systems that we love and the jobs that we need by helping to set these writers straight? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Best way to get a dataset name from a DEB (was: Recovery routine for ICHRTX00)

2015-09-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <769b2e18f7b2fa48b3adea85570a2876c11ac...@mtl-hq-x01.cn.ca>, on 09/25/2015 at 08:41 PM, Leonardo Vaz said: >That means I would have to use SWAREQ to actually get from TIOEJFCB >to JFCBDSNM, right? No; IBM recommends using OPEN TYPE=J; I never understood why, since

Re: Setting the writers right

2015-09-26 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes: > "... the OPM is facing a huge problem with modernizing its security measures > and tactics because of one acronym: COBOL. The programming language that > rose to prominence in the 1960s is rampant throughout the OPM and with the > advanced persistent

Re: Setting the writers right

2015-09-26 Thread Charles Mills
"... the OPM is facing a huge problem with modernizing its security measures and tactics because of one acronym: COBOL. The programming language that rose to prominence in the 1960s is rampant throughout the OPM and with the advanced persistent threats federal agencies are experiencing, it's a