Re: Remote access to Z14 ZR1 Support Element via HMC question

2019-03-20 Thread Laurence Chiu
Thanks Looking at this list and the firewall requests that have been raised, it seems we're covered. Interesting as noted we have a zBC12 in the same room and there is no problem accessing it and the new HMC'S for the z14 are in the same subnet so should be covered by the same firewall rules.

Re: z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-20 Thread Jousma, David
Yea, I agree with Scott. You might not be actively employing any Pervasive Encryption, but you probably still need the support. My own personal gripe is folks that pick and choose what maintenance to put on based on what the readable text says. I've learned over the years that quite often

Re: z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-20 Thread scott Ford
Mary, That doesn’t mean that the Pervasive ones weren’t called. Are your system using Pervasive Encryption ? Regards, Scott On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 1:38 PM Mary Kay Tubello wrote: > Thanks - we have checked and all the PTFs are on except the pervasive > encryption ones which is currently not

Re: IHSA9.0

2019-03-20 Thread scott Ford
Mary, It may help for us to have errors messages.. Scott On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 1:17 PM Mary Kay Tubello wrote: > Can anyone tell me the ACF2 setup for IHSA 9.0 AOACHE 2.4 I have read > the CA doc >

Re: z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-20 Thread Mary Kay Tubello
Thanks - we have checked and all the PTFs are on except the pervasive encryption ones which is currently not in use. Mary Kay -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

IHSA9.0

2019-03-20 Thread Mary Kay Tubello
Can anyone tell me the ACF2 setup for IHSA 9.0 AOACHE 2.4 I have read the CA doc https://comm.support.ca.com/kb/how-to-implement-acf2-rule-for-zos-22-ibm-http-server-powered-by-apache-version-9/kb10412 but I still can't get it to work. Also, how can I make sure the my Security person set

Re: Is it broken? or just useless

2019-03-20 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Look up "z/OS marketing and service announce, availability, and withdrawal dates" in the below link https://www.ibm.com/support/home/links/97/product/5381496/z/OS_-_All_versions_and_releases?results=55 Alternatively you can access the same info via this link

Re: Burroughs WFM vs. z/OS JCl and VSE JCL wasRe: REXX as JCL replacement

2019-03-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
Burroughs had several product lines; only the B6500 line survives at Unisys. The B2500 line had the sign to the left. The B6500 had the sign bit to the left for packed and to the right for signed numeric character data. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-20 Thread Shawn Prenevost
That message ID appears to be from CA Common Services On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 9:59 AM Steve Beaver wrote: > First what release of ACF2 are you running? > > Sent from my iPhone > > Sorry for the finger checks > > > On Mar 20, 2019, at 10:56, Mary Kay Tubello wrote: > > > > We put in zOS 2.3 on

Re: z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-20 Thread Schuffenhauer, Mark
There is required maintenance. https://support.ca.com/phpdocs/0/MSPSaccount/COMPAT/ACF.HTML#IN62_ACF160_PTFLIST CA ACF2 16.0 Fix Category: CA.TargetSystem-RequiredService.z/OS.V2R3 CA-ACF2-MVS (CAX1G00) RO95218 RO96905 RO96906 RO96914 RO97896 CA-ACF2-MVS JES2 (CAX1G01) RO98916 SO00979

Re: z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-20 Thread Steve Beaver
You have 2 choices. Call CA and see what they know and take a dump and upload it Sent from my iPhone Sorry for the finger checks > On Mar 20, 2019, at 10:59, Steve Beaver wrote: > > First what release of ACF2 are you running? > > Sent from my iPhone > > Sorry for the finger checks > >>

Re: z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-20 Thread Mary Kay Tubello
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Re: z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-20 Thread Steve Beaver
First what release of ACF2 are you running? Sent from my iPhone Sorry for the finger checks > On Mar 20, 2019, at 10:56, Mary Kay Tubello wrote: > > We put in zOS 2.3 on one of our LPARs last night. We have an IBM WebSphere > Application Server z/OS 8.5.0 that is getting an abend: CCSR010E

z/OS 2.3, ODM and ACF2

2019-03-20 Thread Mary Kay Tubello
We put in zOS 2.3 on one of our LPARs last night. We have an IBM WebSphere Application Server z/OS 8.5.0 that is getting an abend: CCSR010E SAFOEGES S0C4 at 27D6. We are running ACF2 R16 here. IBM is pointing to a problem with CA product. Has anyone run into this issue? Thank you Mary

Re: Remote access to Z14 ZR1 Support Element via HMC question

2019-03-20 Thread Parwez
Re: Cheat sheet. All this information plus lots of other stuff can be found in: Hardware Management Console Security Manual SC28-6987-01 Regards Parwez Hamid From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Edgington, Jerry Sent: 20 March 2019 14:10 To:

Re: Remote access to Z14 ZR1 Support Element via HMC question

2019-03-20 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Dana, Here is my "cheat sheet" for HMC ports and direction. However, I don't know if they have changed for z14 ZR1, but they work for z13s. ○ HMC inbound IP ports from internal network § Type Source Port Usage ICMP8

Re: Remote access to Z14 ZR1 Support Element via HMC question

2019-03-20 Thread Dana Mitchell
As far as firewall rules go, we can access SOO remotely so I'm looking back at some of my old firewall requests, and it looks like for a new HMC I requested ports 443,9960 and 2300 to be opened. But in the current doc, port 2300 is not referenced, so I don't recall what that was for. Your

Fwd: Network issues are causing more data-center outages | Network World

2019-03-20 Thread Mark Regan
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Re: Is it broken? or just useless

2019-03-20 Thread Allan Staller
Useless. Try search support portal for z/OS EOS. That one is also less useful than others I have seen. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Is it broken? or just

Re: Submitting batch jobs from a web browser

2019-03-20 Thread Gil Cardenas
Hi Roger, we use BMC Control-M here at our shop so not sure what your AWS Batch scheduler capabilities are, however, I wrote an application several years back that took advantage of the Control-M api's to submit jobs from a webpage via FTP to the JES reader. It was really a slick little tool

Re: How to grant access to CONSPROF

2019-03-20 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jousma, David wrote: >I responded off-list to Lizette, but wanted to share this bit of rexx with the >list again. Thanks for kindly sharing that little snippet you stolem fro somewhere. >... No need to mess with CONSOLE access via TSO. Use SDSF ISFSLASH facility >instead. Thanks.

Re: How to grant access to CONSPROF

2019-03-20 Thread Jousma, David
I responded off-list to Lizette, but wanted to share this bit of rexx with the list again. Lizette, I must have missed your question on this last week. No need to mess with CONSOLE access via TSO. Use SDSF ISFSLASH facility instead. Here is some REXX I stole from somewhere, and augmented

Remote access to Z14 ZR1 Support Element via HMC question

2019-03-20 Thread Laurence Chiu
This is the situation We are replacing our zBC12 with a Z14 ZR1 which is DR machine. It will connect to the same SAN as the zBC12 and we want to run the same LPAR configuration and of course the same IOCDS. Our support folks are trying to do the work remotely(externally) and are getting stuck

Re: How to grant access to CONSPROF

2019-03-20 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Lizette Koehler wrote: >I am trying to run a batch REXX that issues CONSPROF or CONSOLE commands. >I have set up everything in IKJTSO00 for CONSOLE, I have updated the RACF >TSOAUTH for the ID issuing the commands >The process will VARY OFFLINE and VARY ONLINE Dasd volumes >Yet I am still

Re: Submitting batch jobs from a web browser

2019-03-20 Thread Timothy Sipples
It'd be helpful to understand what sort of job(s) you'd like to submit to offer more precise advice. However, to get started, there's an excellent IBM redbook on z/OSMF: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247851.pdf One option, if your users are familiar with and like z/OS SDSF, is to

Re: Submitting batch jobs from a web browser

2019-03-20 Thread Ronald Kristel
We have several procedures that use the z/OSMF jobs Rest interface for exactly that reason. This REST interface is actually well described in the z/OSMF Programming Guide. ("Using the z/OSMF REST services" > "z/OS jobs REST interface"). I would be happy to share some example on how we are using

Re: calling a webservice using HTTPS from batch (and CICS)

2019-03-20 Thread Timothy Sipples
That's correct: the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit is a standard, included feature of the base z/OS operating system. The z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit is available as far back as z/OS 2.1, although on that particular release a PTF installation is required to get it. Reference APARs