Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

This may be a bit outside the box (or someone may have mentioned it already), but in the past when I wanted to know if someone was using a particular program, I'd rename that member to something else and create my own front end under the original name, which would spit out a WTO or similar and

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Wrong. That's the job step; the caller may be many levels down. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Joe Monk Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 6:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Yes, but we don't know what he's using. I hope it's not 5734-CB1. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Joe Monk Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 6:49 PM To:

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

You can use CSVQUERY to get the name of the caller's load module, but that still won't get you the name of the caller. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Brian Chapman Sent:

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Which can get very tricky indeed when the CALL is from an input or output exit routine of a COBOL internal SORT. Trying to find your way back through the SORT interface routines can be frustrating at best, and impossible at worst. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Correction: you can chain through the resister save area and use the *caller's entry point* (not CEECAA)to chain to the caller's PPA and retrieve the program name. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 7:39 PM Brian Chapman wrote: > If the called program is assembler and the

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

If the called program is assembler and the caller is COBOL (linked with LE), then you can chain through the resister save area and use the CEECAA to chain to the caller's PPA and retrieve the program name. This method really only works for called assembler programs; don't bother with COBOL. The

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Well, here is the answer to at least part of the puzzle, if not all... "You can find the name of the calling programs from a COBOL V5 or V6 program at run time by using the LE service CEETBCK. For more information, see the z/OS® Language Environment® Vendor Interfaces."

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:51:34 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >Current Enterprise COBOL compilers (and back as far as I know, even COBOL >F-level from MVT) always mark the last parameter address in the address list >with the bit 0 turned on, though I have not researched what current ones do

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

"As soon as you allow by-value parms, you can completely forget the leftmost bit technique to mark the last parameter (address)." Not necessarily. One technique I have seen used elsewhere Is to add a 'dummy" last parameter of X'8000' to mark the end of the list, but I do not know if COBOL

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

If COBOL is like C (and I thought it was) then the words of the vector pointed to by R1 on a CALL are all addresses, not values, and so the high-order bit is available as a VL end-of-list flag. Does "BY VALUE" in COBOL mean the value is in the parm vector? (What about 64-bit values, or long

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Well, he can always look to the JSCB to determine the caller, right? Joe On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 4:19 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > The parm list won't tell him who's calling him. I wouldn't be surprised if > the special cases cover his requirements, but until he spells them out, ... > > > -- >

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Am 22.09.2020 um 23:51 schrieb Farley, Peter x23353: Current Enterprise COBOL compilers (and back as far as I know, even COBOL F-level from MVT) always mark the last parameter address in the address list with the bit 0 turned on, though I have not researched what current ones do if the last

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

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Re: [External] BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

Sorry, list, that wasn't supposed to go here. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 4:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE Argggh, I

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Current Enterprise COBOL compilers (and back as far as I know, even COBOL F-level from MVT) always mark the last parameter address in the address list with the bit 0 turned on, though I have not researched what current ones do if the last parameter is "BY VALUE". Again for current Enterprise

Re: [External] BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

Argggh, I just looked at my calendar. I was about to reply back with "sure, but I have no idea what I'd be doing" when I decided to double check my calendar. 15 minutes before the BOF is starting I just discovered I need to be in an all-IT meeting with the CIO to talk about privacy. I

Re: STIMERM SVCE

That FRR is for SMF, you might check to see if there has been an earlier failure, for example message CSV430I in the syslog. Does your code issue SMFWTM etc? Sounds like your STIMERM popped to catch a small timing window, maybe for asynchronous processing by TCP/IP for your send() that you say

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

The commercial e-mail malware filters watch for e-mail where the "from" address and the headers do not match. They did not used to. The *SPAM* filters watched for the mis-match, but not the malware filters. The notorious RSA hack began with a spear-phishing e-mail with an attachment of an

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Chasing the RB chain will identify LINK invocations, but not CALL invocation. With luck, everybody usees recognizable eyecatchers in their SAVE macros; if not, all bets are off. Can we safely assume that all of the routines are LE enabled? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

The parm list won't tell him who's calling him. I wouldn't be surprised if the special cases cover his requirements, but until he spells them out, ... -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

Having to check a spam folder negates the purpose of a spam filter and just about guranties losing legitimate messages. Reject apparent spam during the SMTP session with an apporopriate messages so legitimate senders know to try other channels, and treat anything else as probably legitimate.

Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

Are they recording BOFs or just regularly scheduled sessions? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at

Re: Any IMS group?

The IMS group is at im...@imslistserv.bmc.com. On 22/09/2020 19:30, Lizette Koehler wrote: > There is a list for almost all activities on the Mainframe. A internet > search on IMS LIST would pull it up > > IMS http://imslistserv.bmc.com/scripts/wa-BMC.exe?A0=ims-l > > Lizette > >

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

Hence, check your trash/deleted folder and then create message filters for any legitimate emails it contains, then run your message filters against your trash/deleted folder to move the legitimate emails out of there and into your "Inbox" folder or whatever other appropriate folders - and these

Re: AT-TLS issues with FTP and SSH

That will do it! BTW: AT-TLS has no relationship with IBM z/OS OpenSSH. On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:00 PM Lionel B Dyck wrote: > Found issue with SSH - I had created (mkdir) the .ssh directory so it had > the default permissions. Should have let ssh-keygen create it. > > Tried adding logging

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

Well, somebody is sure doing a great job of writing English that does not sound intelligent. I currently have one in my inbox with a subject line of "Wait check defrayment in the number of $3288.78 read at once" Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

I've done similar things for other languages (C, PL/1, ASSEMBLER), but not for COBOL. Some remarks: - the desired name of the caller needs to be specified more precisely. By examining the save area chain, it is possible to retrieve the entry point of the calling procedure (Reg 15 in the save

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

yeah ... but R1 should point to the parm list ... and he would calling this assembler stub 1st thing so ... Joe On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:23 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > If the data are not in the called programs then chasing the save areas > won't find the data. The basic form of a SAVE is just

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

If you can call a small assembler subroutine from the current COBOL pgm being executed (may be possible to do this in COBOL as well), use of the following fields should help get you current program name, callers name..., callers name, etc.. As mentioned, LE may make a difference, not sure.

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

If the data are not in the called programs then chasing the save areas won't find the data. The basic form of a SAVE is just an STM (24 bit) or similar instructions. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

he could work his way back thru the saveareas, no? Joe On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:05 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > Standard linkage conventions don't require branching around an eyecatcher > or that they eyecatcher be in a standardized format or even include the > module name. So the question is

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Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Standard linkage conventions don't require branching around an eyecatcher or that they eyecatcher be in a standardized format or even include the module name. So the question is what special cases does the OP need to handle. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

If it's using standard OS linkage, he could use an assembler routine to do a traceback and get some of the items. The problem will come in if passed by value instead of by reference... Joe On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:58 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > I doubt that it's possible in general, certain

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

I doubt that it's possible in general, certain special cases are possible. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Chris Cantrell Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 3:24 PM To:

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Language Environment or non-LE? Joe On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:24 PM Chris Cantrell < chris.cantr...@palmettogba.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am hoping someone out there can help me with this 'opportunity'. > > In a Z/OS enterprise COBOL environment, I want to be able to retrieve the > calling

Re: SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write removed records to a 2nd output?

> On the "tagging" that Sri Hari mentioned: > > 1) You needn't tag unless you want to - and there will be some occasions > where you don't want to. Matrin, Fully agreed. I just wanted to show case with IFTHEN it is much easier to split into multiple files with different conditions. > Just some

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

I think the official, supported answer would be that the calling program should pass that information. With regard to number of parms -- COBOL should have a special register for that! -- I suspect you could write an assembler program that you called from the called COBOL program, worked its

Re: SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write removed records to a 2nd output?

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:08:12 +0100, Martin Packer wrote: > >SAVE has, to my mind, been most invaluable. Prior to this you had to >figure out the boolean complement of the INCLUDE= clause. With more than >one INCLUDE= clause in a sort it became hairier, requiring De Morgan's >Law*. :-) SAVE made

Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

Hello, I am hoping someone out there can help me with this 'opportunity'. In a Z/OS enterprise COBOL environment, I want to be able to retrieve the calling program name and the number of parms passed to the called program from the called program. In other words, program A is executed in my

Re: SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write removed records to a 2nd output?

Back in the mists of time - so I can say it now :-) - Frank Yaeger and I were discussing how we might add some things to the first offering of OUTFIL in DFSORT that weren't then in Syncsort. We came up with SAVE and "Card Dealer". SAVE has, to my mind, been most invaluable. Prior to this you

Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

Not to mention all sessions are recorded! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE No good deed goes

Re: SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write removed records to a 2nd output?

Thanks Sri, that is just what I need. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 2:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write removed

Re: Any IMS group?

There is a list for almost all activities on the Mainframe. A internet search on IMS LIST would pull it up IMS http://imslistserv.bmc.com/scripts/wa-BMC.exe?A0=ims-l Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of johnnydeep san Sent: Tuesday,

Re: PDS86 SHR?

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:37:46 -0500 Skippy the Ancient wrote: :>There is a dataset missing a member. PDS86 won't play with it because it allocated to an STC. :>Is it possible to invoke PDS86 so it doesn't allocate the DSN as OLD? Use the SHR keyword? -- Binyamin Dissen

Re: SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write removed records to a 2nd output?

> In one pass of an input file is there a way to use SORT to both > remove identified records from an input file AND write those removed > records to a second output file? Peter, You don't need 2 passes of data, you can tag the records that match your identification and then use that tag to

Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

No good deed goes unpunished. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 9:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at

Re: SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write removed records to a 2nd output?

Thanks Max, that would seem to be the way. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Massimo Biancucci Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write

Re: PDS86 SHR?

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:37:46 -0500, Skippy the Ancient wrote: >There is a dataset missing a member. PDS86 won't play with it because it >allocated to an STC. >Is it possible to invoke PDS86 so it doesn't allocate the DSN as OLD? > Might there be an option to use ISPF serialization conventions,

Re: SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write removed records to a 2nd output?

Peter, look at OUTFIL syntax and SAVE keyword. Regards. Max Mail priva di virus. www.avast.com

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

Many of us receive legitimate e-mail from unknown senders, or from known senders with new addresses. The e-mail addresses in headers are not trustworthy. Digital signatures are only trustworthy if you got the public key from a trusted source. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

PDS86 SHR?

There is a dataset missing a member. PDS86 won't play with it because it allocated to an STC. Is it possible to invoke PDS86 so it doesn't allocate the DSN as OLD? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: [External] BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

Thanks, Clark, Hoping to see you at 15:15 Central time on Thursday. :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 10:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] BOF on COBOL and the systems

SORT question: How to both remove records from a file AND write removed records to a 2nd output?

In one pass of an input file is there a way to use SORT to both remove identified records from an input file AND write those removed records to a second output file? I know I can run two passes of the input using INCLUDE in pass 1 to select just the records to be removed and a second pass

Re: AT-TLS issues with FTP and SSH

Found issue with SSH - I had created (mkdir) the .ssh directory so it had the default permissions. Should have let ssh-keygen create it. Tried adding logging to pagent for ftp - overloaded with messages and reading them now. Thank you Lionel B. Dyck < Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com

Re: AT-TLS issues with FTP and SSH

Regarding the AT-TLS issue, your pagent is likely encountering a problem in the FTP section (of course!). Look at the log it generates, and if you don't have one, add the logging option to the pagent start command. If I remember correctly, there's also a verbose setting. I found the logs to be

Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:36:10 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: >I am giving a BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer on Thursday, >September 24 in the last session period - 16:15 Eastern time zone, >15:15 Central time zone, 14:15, Mountain time zone, 13:15 Pacific >time, 17:15 Atlantic time zone in

Re: STIMERM SVCE

The STIMERM is in my code. The FRR is inside IEEMB830,08/31/16,UA82681 at +9D4. Regards, Pierre. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: AT-TLS issues with FTP and SSH

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:07:57 -0500, Lionel B Dyck wrote: > >And for that I�m getting: FOTS3322 Passwords may not be entered from 3270 >terminals > They're giving you a hint. Eschew 3270; don't be a masochist. Years ago, I discovered that if I start "script" under 3270 OMVS, then I can

Re: Any IMS group?

You better ask here. I am registered to the IMS group but haven't got any email for a long time now. ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM comming son * On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 6:51 PM Itschak

BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

I am giving a BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer on Thursday, September 24 in the last session period - 16:15 Eastern time zone, 15:15 Central time zone, 14:15, Mountain time zone, 13:15 Pacific time, 17:15 Atlantic time zone in Canada and 17:45 in Newfoundland. There will be a 10 minute

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

First, the Received: fields contain domain names and IP addresses that depend only on envelopes and connecting IP addresses. You should rely on those that came from nodes you control or trust; anything beyond that is suspect. There are various authentication protocols, e.g., SPF (acronym

Re: STIMERM SVCE

As asked, What code owns the FRR? *RCVY FRR 070C 8465F9D4 What is at 465F9D4? To me, the most plausible of unlikely scenarios is that something you called (at some point via PC), in key 0 supervisor state, set an EUT FRR. And then it issued a PR to return to you, in your key and

Re: DB2 ERLY code copied in while DB2 is up

I am reasonably certain that *ssid REFRESH DB2,EARLY Must occur with DB2 down Else you receive DSNY003I *DBT3 SUBSYSTEM IS ALREADY ACTIVE DSN9023I *DBT3 DSNYSCMD 'REFRESH DB2' ABNORMAL COMPLETION Chris Hoelscher Lead Sys DBA IBM Global Technical Services on

AT-TLS issues with FTP and SSH

We just enabled AT-TLS (PAGENT) on a test LPAR and immediately ran into two issues: 1. The FTP Client ceased to work (until we commented the FTP section in the pagent_TTLS.conf file) a. No issues doing an FTP into this LPAR. 2. Git stopped working due to SSH. A simple test is:ssh

Any IMS group?

Hi, Do we have any groups for the IMS group to discuss some Admin stuff? . Regards, JD -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: DB2 ERLY code copied in while DB2 is up

If you mean copy it into the dataset where it's loaded from when it's needed, then yes you can. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday,

DB2 ERLY code copied in while DB2 is up

I need to move in new DB2 ERLY code. My question is, can I copy in the ERLY while DB2 is up. Then after a normally scheduled IPL start DB2? Or does DB2 need to be down in order to copy in the new ERLY code? thanks Bill -- For

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

I'm pretty sure that in the bad old days, even the headers could not accurately reflect the sender. You could tell what ~server~ the email came from, but the email address depended entirely on the From label that every email client attaches manually, and which isn't necessarily truthful. I

Re: JCL examination prior to execution

There's no production on the mainframe, just software development. Also no change control to speak of for environmental changes like this. Right now it's just wasted system resources to generate and save these dumps that have no value and will never be used by the developers. Mark Jacobs Sent

Re: JCL examination prior to execution

W dniu 22.09.2020 o 14:11, Mark Jacobs pisze: We have developers who put SYSMDUMP output to SYSOUT rather than a dataset. I'm looking at ways to prevent those jobs from executing until they make JCL changes. Are there any other exits, processes other than a JES2 exit (looking at exit 6/60) to

Re: JCL examination prior to execution

Well, you could certainly catch it in a JES exit or in IEFUJV, but IMHO it would be better to deal with the failure to purge, especially if there are production jobs involved. What are the change control ramifications? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: JCL examination prior to execution

just a thought.  Run the JCL through J-Man and either change the statements, one of the values/parameters or issue a flag prior to the execution. Mitch -Original Message- From: Mark Jacobs <0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tue,

Re: JCL examination prior to execution

We've had developers fill up spool with unnecessary dumps in the past. Yes, you're correct, they can do as you said, but they don't. It's pure user error. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key -

Re: JCL examination prior to execution

Thanks. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 9:06 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > IEAVTABX. > > Real time, when

Re: JCL examination prior to execution

Why? My understanding is that you can retrieve an SVC dump from SPOOL and process it in IPCS. As long as it is in a hold class, what problems does it cause? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: JCL examination prior to execution

IEAVTABX. Real time, when there is a dump. Check if SYSMDUMP is to SYSOUT, and then suppress it. On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 12:11:43 + Mark Jacobs <0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: :>We have developers who put SYSMDUMP output to SYSOUT rather than a dataset. I'm looking at

JCL examination prior to execution

We have developers who put SYSMDUMP output to SYSOUT rather than a dataset. I'm looking at ways to prevent those jobs from executing until they make JCL changes. Are there any other exits, processes other than a JES2 exit (looking at exit 6/60) to do so? Mark Jacobs Sent from

Re: rename a dataset in acs routine?

My €0.02: This is typical problem when the goal is NOT defined. Existing approach seems ridiculous, but it exists. It works. So, since it works, why to change it? What is the reason? What goal is to achieve? More ridiculous are the terms. JCL cannot be changed. WHY??? However JES2 exit6 which

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

Bob, Yes you correctly interpreted my point about the language in scam emails. However ...it is NOT MY observation. I'm only messenger. This is recognized by proffessionals who work (fight) with scam and Internet security, and study the problem. And it is reasonable, not preposterous. Few