Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack

On Nov 25, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Not really. Barely available any more. You as a consumer are basically at zero direct money risk from credit card fraud. (Unlike cash!) Charles Charles, I buy them yearly (just before vacation) at the bank I go to. There are still

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

I just got on offline reply. To clarify, I mean for a program to make this determination programmatically, presumably by an LE call or z/OS control block chaining. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills

Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack

Not really. Barely available any more. You as a consumer are basically at zero direct money risk from credit card fraud. (Unlike cash!) Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Wednesday, November 25,

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

> From: "Tony Harminc" > On 19 November 2015 at 10:14, Gary Weinhold wrote: > > But you have a valid concern about vendors' assembler code. We should be > > asked whether we know about this. (snip) > One slighly related point: It has been the case from

Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack

And because of how easily they are counterfeited by a mainframe, many places will not accept Travelers Cheques these days. (Had to mention mainframe to keep within the purpose of this list server -- Hint hint). On 11/25/2015 11:17 AM, Ed Gould wrote: On Nov 25, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Charles

Re: Where to set options for SFE line command in TSO ISPF DSLIST?

In , on 11/24/2015 at 07:12 PM, Roger Bolan said: >But I can't seem to find where to change them for the SFE line >command. Short of writing your own line command[1] I don't think that you can do it.

Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

Is there a fairly straightforward way to determine the "architecture number" of the hardware on which a program is actually running? By architecture level I mean z13 = ARCH(11) and so forth, as supported by C/C++ and I think now COBOL. By straightforward I mean I do not want to test various

Re: IBM Mainframe JOB market

We had a 71 Year old z/OS System Programmer take an early retirement package. After 6 Months he was bored, so he took a contracting position with an IBM customer. He lives in New Jersey and the data center is in Florida. There is plenty of work around its just that Business don't want to PAY

Re: IBM Mainframe

I heard that... On Wednesday, November 25, 2015 6:22 PM, David Speake wrote: Last Friday I was told that there is a desperate shortage of IBM        mainframe talent at most all skill levels and specialties. I have      not done my homework, say on

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

Kirk - Thanks much! Certainly worth considering. I wish IBM were better organized in general around this: - the C and COBOL compilers use ARCH levels - the assembler uses ZS- codes which are different numerically - there is nothing in the PoOp that says "this instruction requires ARCH n." Yes,

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

Touché. Yes, yes, I know, I should be using make. We all have a little bit of dinosaur blood in us. Some are stuck in assembler. I happen to be stuck in batch JCL compiles. I should learn make but it is never at the top of the critical path. Questions: 1. Will make in fact solve this

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

Charles, I agree that there should be a compiler or LE API to do this. If not: ARCH levels actually map to a set of required "Facilities" (the Principles of Operation term). You can test at the facility bits in the PSAE, mapped by IHAFACL. Then you could use the documentation on ARCH in the

Re: IBM Mainframe

My personal experience. I'm 67, laid off after 18 years May 2014, consultant with raise Sept 2014, Hired away with raise Aug 2015. Yes, there is work to be had. More so if you are able to travel and/or re-locate, but I am seeing more notices for work-from-home. PS, once you are on Medicare,

Re: User Cats and Replication Sites

Every time I see this thread, I think "cats...Internet..." and almost click on it. I guess it's true: 78% of all Internet traffic *is* related to cats! On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:53:09 +, J O Skip Robinson wrote: > >

Re: IBM Mainframe

>From my personal observation I don't see a shortage of Mainframe Skills. I do see companies not willing to pay for an experience skill set. In to days economic climate business are very reluctant to hire staff positions, they would rather invest in contractors. . . Just my observation.

IBM Mainframe JOB market

Last Friday I was told that there is a desperate shortage of IBM mainframe talent at most all skill levels and specialties. I have not done my homework, say on Monster.com or otherwise. Suspect that, if true, it would be a hot topic here. So I scanned rather

OT: Ex-IT staff claim Disney fired them then gave their jobs H1-B peeps

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Re: Accessing RESTful services from a z/OS batch job

On 26/11/2015 3:18 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: I would point out that, with respect to the OP question, that invoking RESTful services from headless code usually involves HTTPS and often client certs. If you were using Python or Lua on z/OS with standard wrappers you would be using OpenSSL. Who is

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

Charles Mills wrote: Touché. Yes, yes, I know, I should be using make. We all have a little bit of dinosaur blood in us. Some are stuck in assembler. I love assembler. When in assembler, I'm doing it your way. I happen to be stuck in batch JCL compiles. I should learn make but it is

Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack

At 11:37 -0500 on 11/25/2015, Steve Thompson wrote about Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack: And because of how easily they are counterfeited by a mainframe, many places will not accept Travelers Cheques these days. I remember a Hawaii 5-0 (original version) that turned on passing real but

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

Either a documented API (macro, LE call, callable service) or a reasonably straightforward control block chase is what I picture. As I indicate, a table of 4-digit model numbers -> ARCH level is not out of the question. 4-digit model is obtainable from CSRSI. I am currently hitting another

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

Charles Mills wrote: >I just got on offline reply. Amazing you get help so fast! Good for you! >To clarify, I mean for a program to make this determination programmatically, >presumably by an LE call or z/OS control block chaining. Care to tell us what you could use? By peeking in an address

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

We have one product that that compiles their code for each architectural level. The initial module is determines the hardware and loads the remainder of the code to match the processor > but one or two pesky customers want to run on an older machine So you are saying that all of your customers

Re: User Cats and Replication Sites

To try and answer the question : Why do this? If you do normal dumps/unloads of production data and ship it to your DEV/QA/Lifecycle environment - you might use productions like NDM, FTP, IND$FILE, etc... slow and dependent on your IP traffic or pipes. Or you might dump to tapes and either mail

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

On 25 November 2015 at 11:57, Charles Mills wrote: > Is there a fairly straightforward way to determine the "architecture number" > of the hardware on which a program is actually running? By architecture > level I mean z13 = ARCH(11) and so forth, as supported by C/C++ and I

Address/Name of a PC rtn

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Re: Accessing RESTful services from a z/OS batch job

I would point out that, with respect to the OP question, that invoking RESTful services from headless code usually involves HTTPS and often client certs. If you were using Python or Lua on z/OS with standard wrappers you would be using OpenSSL. Who is going to port OpenSSL and keep up with all

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Charles Mills wrote: What you said is a discovery at least to me. I also find it ghastly backward Paul Gilmartin already explained it to you. The Unix world is designed around components, not monolithic regimens. C/C++ is partnered with the "make" utility. A

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Re: (External):Re: User Cats and Replication Sites

In order to make a 'foreign' catalog available, I don't believe you DEFINE RECAT because the catalog already exists. IMPORT CONNECT (whereby you name the volume) creates all the necessary pointers in the current system's master catalog. Furthermore, IMPORT CONNECT does not require that the

Re: User Cats and Replication Sites

(Reposting with edited subject. Sorry that I forget to massage it so often.) In order to make a 'foreign' catalog available, I don't believe you DEFINE RECAT because the catalog already exists. IMPORT CONNECT (whereby you name the volume) creates all the necessary pointers in the current

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:24:31 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: > >Am I RTFM incorrectly? Or has anyone figured out a bit of cleverness to have >global "default" options that one can override on a source module by source >module basis. (I have common JCL that I use "universally." I have hundreds >of

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

Bob Shannon wrote: >We have one product that that compiles their code for each architectural >level. The initial module is determines the hardware and loads the remainder >of the code to match the processor How is your initial module working to determine the ARCH level? If you can't

Re: User Cats and Replication Sites

In addition--a point I've made in other threads that touch on 'recovery'--do not depend on 'one final step' in production to allow for recovery elsewhere. You must assume that production has died an instant and agonizing death. There will be *no opportunity* for any further action there. What

Re: User Cats and Replication Sites

Just be sure you don't let catalog replication resume while the catalog is open on the second system. Much carnage will ensue. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

> How is your initial module working to determine the ARCH level? If you can't > disclose it, it is fine It's not my product and I haven’t looked at the code. However, it's simple enough to build a table of processor types with the corresponding ARCH/MACH level. Bob Shannon Rocket Software

Re: User Cats and Replication Sites

I might be remembering incorrectly, but doesn't z/OS FTP now support pipes? --- jerry.whitteri...@safeway.com wrote: From: Jerry Whitteridge To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: User Cats and Replication Sites Date: Wed, 25 Nov

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

... because I have little control over and no knowledge of the specific instructions the compiler may emit. I only know the ARCH level of the compile. Here's the background: the product recently S0C1ed on initial execution at a new customer. We quickly figured out the problem was a box older

Re: Accessing RESTful services from a z/OS batch job

On 25/11/2015 10:23 PM, Bigendian Smalls wrote: Agreed on lua from what I've seen it seems like a fairly competent language (mostly I've see it from the backside of wireshark/nmap). I'll give your port a look, thanks for sharing that! There is a JIT variant called LuaJIT which is snapping

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

David Crayford wrote: On 26/11/2015 10:11 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: I love assembler. When in assembler, I'm doing it your way. I don't share your love. I much prefer a compiler to find my bugs for me. Although I appreciate it's relevance on z/OS where so many system calls have macro

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

On 26/11/2015 10:11 AM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: Charles Mills wrote: Touché. Yes, yes, I know, I should be using make. We all have a little bit of dinosaur blood in us. Some are stuck in assembler. I love assembler. When in assembler, I'm doing it your way. I don't share your love. I much

Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack

Traveler's Checks are still an option. In a message dated 11/25/2015 3:47:07 A.M. Central Standard Time, elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za writes: Until that is stolen too. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Accessing RESTful services from a z/OS batch job

On 26/11/2015 3:13 PM, Rob Schramm wrote: Hmm.. I wonder if NetRexx has anything to help? Never used it. If I wanted to run a JVM language I would pick Scala which has the succinct feel of a scripting language but is strongly typed. And forget writing TSO applications with a JVM based

AW: FW: Help with mount?

>Thanks to some help offline, I was pointed to RDEFINE TSOAUTH MOUNT >UACC(NONE). This allowed me to enter "mount -qv /". Thanks Steve. I'm baffled. I've never before detected a connection between TSOAUTH in general, and TSOAUTH MOUNT especially and any z/OS UNIX authority. Where is the

Re: Accessing RESTful services from a z/OS batch job

Hmm.. I wonder if NetRexx has anything to help? Rob Schramm On Wed, Nov 25, 2015, 11:53 PM David Crayford wrote: > On 25/11/2015 10:23 PM, Bigendian Smalls wrote: > > Agreed on lua from what I've seen it seems like a fairly competent > language (mostly I've see it from the

Re: User Cats and Replication Sites

As far as I udnerstand you replicate UCAT, but cataloged datasets (volumes with datasets). I don't see any value in such approach. What's your goal? Note: it could worth to consider to replicate a set of datasets and UCAT. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2015-11-24 o 23:24,

Yeat another hotel cyber attack

Hilton hotels are the next victims... http://www.fin24.com/Tech/News/hilton-hotels-hit-by-cyber-attack-20151125 Quote from that article: "... just the latest in a long string of credit card breaches involving hotel brands, restaurants and retail establishments." Seemed good old cas

Re: POP UP window border colour

I'm using extended 3270, yes it does seem to be absent from the list of 1001 things you can change! There appear to be convoluted ways but noting official. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

NEW FUNCTION APAR (OA44064) TO ALLOW SYNCHRONOUS NSR ACCESS UNDER SRB MODE

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA44064#more I've tried this with an RRDS on z/OS 2.1 with UA75273 applied and I get an RPLFDBK of X'0800E4' ( RPLINVMD). What have I missed? Thanks Steve PSW: supervisor state, key 8 and ASC mode primary 078C2000 8004B098 RPL: dir,key

Re: HMC and certificate

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Re: POP UP window border colour

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:53:40 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >DTL generates something like that when you specify ACTION or >CRITICAL in MSGTYPE on a MSG tag. If you are using the default placement for your message, try coding .TYPE=ACTION on the message definition. -- Tom Marchant

Re: AW: Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

Without getting too far into the DFSORT internals, I'll just clarify that DFSORT generally prefers to use memory objects instead of Hiperspaces. However, rather than remove the Hiperspace support we kept it there. Part of the reason is that often times the memlimit may prevent the use of memory

Re: IBM Mainframe JOB market

It's not the business doesn't want to pay. The middle men/head hunters want to keep a 2.5 to 1 ratio If they pay you $60 they charge the customer $150. I've also told these middle men/head hunters, unless you Personally can to the job you can have $30 per hour and I will take the $120 and they