Re: CBTTAPE - Any Automation tool for console message trap

2020-01-13 Thread ITschak Mugzach
I noticed that AUTOMAN from expans in now free anf is on file 627 of the cbttape. I used generalized MPF exit file 708 to convert a client from a commercial product to MPF based automation and it worked very well. ITschak On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 9:33 AM Ken Bloom wrote: > Hi jake > > What

Re: CBTTAPE - Any Automation tool for console message trap

2020-01-13 Thread Ken Bloom
Hi jake What are you trying to do? There are products out there that can “screen scrape” consoles and send alerts based on content. Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Jan 13, 2020, at 11:50 PM,

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept

2020-01-13 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
remember no real CKD devices have been made for decades ... all being simulated on industry standard fixed-block ... need a fair amount electronics and processing between the emulated CKD layer and the real fixed-block hardware (whether fixed-block spinning disks or fixed-block SSD). a lot of the

CBTTAPE - Any Automation tool for console message trap

2020-01-13 Thread Jake Anderson
Hello, Is there any CBTTAPE file which has the solution to trap message in console and send email ? Or else if there is any other method you are following please let me know. Regards Jake -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: SMPE UPGRADE Command

2020-01-13 Thread Tom Conley
On 1/13/2020 8:48 AM, Barbara Nitz wrote: I am attempting to install zSecure. I get GIM58901E ** APPLY PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD HCKR240. SYSMOD HCKR240 WOULD HAVE CAUSED A CHANGE TO THE MVST ZONE THAT CAN NOT BE PROCESSED COMPLETELY BY PRIOR LEVELS OF SMP/E. USE

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

2020-01-13 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Is it V6.3 that introduces the capability to generate 64-bit executables. Or is that already available in V6.2? If V6.3 introduces the ability to generate 64-bit executables I would argue (even as a COBOL developer) for a transition period where V6.3 was "available but not standard", with an

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

2020-01-13 Thread Charles Mills
Caution and backups and fallback strategies are always good, but I don't think there is much relationship between *running* a COBOL version X program and having the *compiler* version Y installed. I believe all of the runtime is part of LE, not the compiler, and compatibility from VS COBOL II (if

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept

2020-01-13 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Alas, hogst...@us.ibm.com is my IBM address. I generally use my personal account for mailing lists and open source involvement as that transcends my employer. Sorry if that was confusing; I didn’t mean it to be. Matt Hogstrom m...@hogstrom.org “It may be cognitive, but, it ain’t intuitive."

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

2020-01-13 Thread Mike Schwab
I would certainly have 6.2 and 6.3 available for a few months of testing, for sure. Probably a 3 way compare with 5.2 so you can be certain of a useable program if you limit to 5.2 / 6.3. On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:33 PM Frank Swarbrick wrote: > > I was wondering what "methodologies" shops have

Migrating to new compiler release

2020-01-13 Thread Frank Swarbrick
I was wondering what "methodologies" shops have for migrating to a new "release" within the same "version" of a compiler. Specifically, we currently have Enterprise COBOL 6.2 (V6 R2) and 6.3 is now available. Our systems group asked if we just wanted to "replace" 6.2 with 6.3. I'm a bit wary

Re: LOGR Offload Dataset deletion problem

2020-01-13 Thread Mark Jacobs
Nope. //SY010AA JOB (SYS00),'MARK JACOBS',MSGLEVEL=(1,1), // MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=A,NOTIFY=SY010A //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IFASMFDL,REGION=512M //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //SYSINDD * LSNAME(IFASMF.DEVL52.DEFAULT,OPTIONS(DELETE)) DATE(2019364,2020012) /* Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept

2020-01-13 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:27:52 +, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >On Sun, 12 Jan 2020, at 04:24, Phil Smith III wrote: >> From a book: >> >> "... located a Trojan virus during a routine mainframe defrag." > >I dunno about the first bit, but "routine mainframe defrag" is fine. >DFDSS has a DEFRAG verb.

Re: LOGR Offload Dataset deletion problem

2020-01-13 Thread Leonardo Vaz
Look at message, you probably have an OUTDD specified in the JCL. Regards, Leo -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Monday, January 13, 2020 1:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: LOGR Offload Dataset deletion problem We've been

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
IBM supported TCP/IP for the same reason that it earlier supported the ISO OSI and ITU (nee C.C.I.T.T.) recommendations; that where the market, especially the US Federal Government market, seemed to be going. > The most concerning security problems on the mainframe are not caused by > TCP/IP

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
There have been vulnerabilities in some of the protocols. That said, the community has been fairly good about fixing them. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of zMan Sent: Monday,

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
I remember that IBM supported X.25, APPN corrected a lot of the issues of SNA, and IMHO the industry would have been better off going to the ITU (nee C.C.I.T.T.) X.foo recommendations. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
I disagree. VTAM *was* the center, and remained so with the advent of APPN. What changed is that VTAM no longer required centralized administration. ISO OSI and TCP/IP became available for MVS much later. However, I do agree that it was absolutely necessary for IBM to support TCP/IP once it

LOGR Offload Dataset deletion problem

2020-01-13 Thread Mark Jacobs
We've been unable to delete some offload datasets from one of our logstreams, We're getting these messages in IFASMFDL. Our daily archive process is dumping the data, but isn't able to the delete the now longer necessary offload datasets. The same messages are being issued in the archive

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread Gerhard Adam
I think you are absolutely correct There is a reason why VTAM adopted APPN, because it was impossible for VTAM to look and behave as if it were the entire center for every communications need. TCP/IP was inevitable given its large penetration into the home consumer market and the cost for

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread Charles Mills
Of course! Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Knutson, Samuel Sent: Monday, January 13, 2020 8:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What is a mainframe? In my opinion IBM helped to save the mainframe

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/13/20 9:50 AM, zMan wrote: Eh? That's silly. There's nothing inherent about TCP/IP that makes things hackable. Any connectivity creates potential exposures, whether it's TCP/IP, SNA, bisync... I do think there is something to be said about the size of the potential pool of attackers via

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept

2020-01-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:41:07 -0500, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >That was my thinking too Paul. We should be able to mask a lot of this in >software and not have to do a lot of unnecessary “busy” work. > >Part of the challenge is to identify some behaviors that could be deprecated. >We have a lot

Re: SMPE UPGRADE Command

2020-01-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 07:47:58 -0600, Barbara Nitz wrote: >I am attempting to install zSecure. I get > >GIM58901E ** APPLY PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD HCKR240. SYSMOD HCKR240 WOULD > HAVE CAUSED A CHANGE TO THE MVST ZONE THAT CAN NOT BE PROCESSED > COMPLETELY BY PRIOR

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread ITschak Mugzach
tcpip stack on z is just a proof that IBM recognized that the 70's passed. some of you may remember that while the industry standard was x.25, IBM decided that if you want to connect to a mainframe, you need to play IBM's game of SNA. If IBM was rolling the market, these days, we might be still

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread zMan
Eh? That's silly. There's nothing inherent about TCP/IP that makes things hackable. Any connectivity creates potential exposures, whether it's TCP/IP, SNA, bisync... On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 3:53 PM z/OS scheduler wrote: > Welll, in my opinion the mainframe died when IBM allowed tcpip on their >

Re: What is a mainframe?

2020-01-13 Thread Knutson, Samuel
In my opinion IBM helped to save the mainframe when they included a built-in highly performant TCP/IP stack in the operating system.Making the mainframe a more mainstream hardware server and more importantly a mainstream software server that communications, API implementations and

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept

2020-01-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 13:59:21 -0500, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >it occurred to me that for the most part a lot of the work in defragging, >worrying about disk geometry and other issues are really not / less of >an issue with cache and SSD technologies. No, as long as z/OS still allocates data set

SMPE UPGRADE Command

2020-01-13 Thread Barbara Nitz
I am attempting to install zSecure. I get GIM58901E ** APPLY PROCESSING FAILED FOR SYSMOD HCKR240. SYSMOD HCKR240 WOULD HAVE CAUSED A CHANGE TO THE MVST ZONE THAT CAN NOT BE PROCESSED COMPLETELY BY PRIOR LEVELS OF SMP/E. USE THE UPGRADE COMMAND TO

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept.

2020-01-13 Thread Allan Staller
As of (IIRC) z/OS 1.12 there is a user enabled dfsms function CA_RECLAIM that allows the use of orphaned CA's w/o need for a "offline" reorg. Applies to VSAM KSDS. Not to Linear VSAM HTH >-Original Message- >From: Jeremy Nicoll >Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:28 AM > >I dunno about