Re: Pervasive Encryption - why?

2019-08-04 Thread Timothy Sipples
Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: >My first reason for PE for data sets is that encryption >protects the data when it is accessed outside of its normal >environment (i.e. not via the data's normal RACF >environment). Some other examples, in no particular order: anything IPL'ed on the system (or that

Re: Sort job to get price variance records

2019-08-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 5/08/2019 11:33 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: +1 I'm probably partisan, but I'd look to Rexx or awk, both of which provide useful associative arrays. Personally on z/OS I would look to Java. I used to use Rexx a lot, but after getting used to Java and similar languages I find Rexx very

Re: Sort job to get price variance records

2019-08-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 10:55:00 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: >On 1/08/2019 8:03 am, Ron Thomas wrote: >> >> We have a FB File LRECL = 80 bytes and here below is the layout. Buy_price >> is at position 65 of length 10 bytes . We need to pull those item nbrs >> which has same UPC,Vendor nbr ,State Code

Re: dfsort: Sort job to get price variance records

2019-08-04 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 1/08/2019 8:03 am, Ron Thomas wrote: Hi. We have a FB File LRECL = 80 bytes and here below is the layout. Buy_price is at position 65 of length 10 bytes . We need to pull those item nbrs which has same UPC,Vendor nbr ,State Code but there is price difference. Could anyone let me know how

Re: Pervasive Encryption - why?

2019-08-04 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
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Re: Pervasive Encryption - why?

2019-08-04 Thread ITschak Mugzach
And the major reason, it easy and allmost cost nothing. I have a client in the us that encrypted almost anything /(short block sizes are not supported). He claims that on z14 box cpu is almost the same. ITschak בתאריך יום א׳, 4 באוג׳ 2019, 19:51, מאת Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw ‏<

Re: Pervasive Encryption - why?

2019-08-04 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Cameron, I missed this post the other day and I see many others have replied. My first reason for PE for data sets is that encryption protects the data when it is accessed outside of its normal environment (i.e. not via the data's normal RACF environment). So this includes removable backups

Re: Bruce Watts

2019-08-04 Thread Ed Jaffe
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Re: Getting ABEND reason code from attached subtask

2019-08-04 Thread Peter Relson
what about the normal completion reason code (R0)? "Normal completion reason code" is not a concept supported by z/OS. Of course there is "value in R0 upon normal completion" but that is not surfaced. The TCB/STCB has the information that is available. Since you attached with ECB the