Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread kekronbekron
Chiming in to say that the big screen consideration is a real (seeing the whole screen without moving much) reason to want curved. However, if you have 2 screens you can experiment with, just set them tilted in and see if that works for you. I'm assuming big, curved screens cost more, compared

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Brian Westerman
I have a 42 inch curved. The curved screen is very clear and everything is the same size all the way from left to right. Previously I had a 42 in flat screen (which I gave to my kid who loves it), but the problem I had was that as I age, my eyesight isn't able to refocus as quickly so I had

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Leonard D Woren
OK.  So we've established that the key is set via software. Software can be hacked. And now there's only a single spit of data to focus all the effort on.  Years ago at a SHARE presentation, I caught an IBMer after the session and they admitted that I was correct. /Leonard P.S.  Someone

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Michael Stein
On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 02:41:45PM -0600, Walt Farrell wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:15:38 +, Eric D Rossman > wrote: > For encryption, the analogous method might be: Once a jobstep has > Opened an encrypted data set to read it, they cannot write to, nor Open, > an unencrypted output data

Tribute: Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024 - The New Stack

2024-01-15 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Remembering the creator of Pascal, a champion of lean and elegant code, and a vital figure in the evolution of software development. https://thenewstack.io/tribute-niklaus-wirth-1934-2024/ -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place,

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Steve Thompson
I have used a curved screen and I have used flat screens as monitors for doing programming and monitoring of LPARs (VM and or z/OS). Curved was something over 30" and flat was a 43" 4K monitor. The curved screen, if you are in the middle, you can just use your eyes to look left or right, the

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Steve Beaver
For me I want to get some real estate back on my desk and keep it all on one Screen Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jan 15, 2024, at 16:41, Bob Bridges wrote: > > Tell me why. I'm trying to visualize, and can't see why curved would make a > big

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Bob Bridges
Tell me why. I'm trying to visualize, and can't see why curved would make a big difference. I'm interested in being persuaded, though. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread ITschak Mugzach
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Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I use curved monitor standing on a stand sit desk. And a folded treadmill, so I can walk while programming... *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| * *|* *Email**:

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Steve Thompson
In CICS one can have encrypted and non-encrypted files open simultaneously. This is kind of a MUAS, Multiple User Address Space. I was going to mention the problem of Connect:Direct but let it go. But since the CICS thing was also brought up C:D has similar issues to CICS where it can

Re: Traversing The Linkage Stack

2024-01-15 Thread Peter Relson
Joe R wrote I got to a X'89' is a header  the doc say that decrementing that would bring to a new linkage frame I specifically remember looking - 32 bytes from there and it was all zeros. Not having ready access to that document, but knowing who wrote it, I'll bet that it does not say that. It

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:45:06 -0600, Joe Monk wrote: >How would that be practical? How would you, for instance, do a batch update >to an encrypted dataset from a CICS vsam file? Sorry; I don't understand the question. How do you do it today? -- Walt

Re: sdwagrsv not equal rbgrsave

2024-01-15 Thread Joseph Reichman
Peter Would you know where I could find that info Thanks > On Jan 15, 2024, at 2:32 PM, Peter Relson > <056a472f7cb4-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Here is the SDWA as you can see the PSW matches how come the registers > don't? > Because the registers are not saved in the

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Steve Thompson
Opinions in general: Having used a 4K 43" flat TV/monitor and having had access to a curved monitor once, I'd go curved every time the $$$ were available for such a device. Note: I have a 8' wide desk that is ~3' "deep". So a 43" monitor sits on the back edge of the desk, center. I

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Joe Monk
How would that be practical? How would you, for instance, do a batch update to an encrypted dataset from a CICS vsam file? Joe On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 2:42 PM Walt Farrell wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:15:38 +, Eric D Rossman > wrote: > > >Answering a number of comments in order, in one

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:15:38 +, Eric D Rossman wrote: >Answering a number of comments in order, in one message. > >First: I don't think being able to encrypt load libraries is worth it. >Encrypted executables, in general, are not going to increase security. > >Jousma, David: > >>

Re: sdwagrsv not equal rbgrsave

2024-01-15 Thread Peter Relson
Here is the SDWA as you can see the PSW matches how come the registers don't? Because the registers are not saved in the same RB that the scrunched-to-8-bytes PSW is saved in. Peter Relsonz/OS Core Technology Design -- For

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Dell 4919dw has served me well for 4 years Matt Hogstrom PGP key 0F143BC1 > On Jan 15, 2024, at 13:28, Joe Monk wrote: > > Second this. I have a DELL 42" monitor which I used with multiple computers. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread roscoe5
I turn my monitors vertical, as we tend to scroll up/down more than left/right. With three, I turn them to give much the same effect as curved monitors. Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 1:10 PM, Lionel B. Dyck <[lbd...@gmail.com](mailto:On

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Joe Monk
Second this. I have a DELL 42" monitor which I used with multiple computers. Joe On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 12:26 PM Henri Kuiper wrote: > All I can say is, if you have multiple devices, go for a monitor that also > acts as a KVM-switch... I've a DELL Dell C3422WE at "only" 34" but the > ability

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Henri Kuiper
All I can say is, if you have multiple devices, go for a monitor that also acts as a KVM-switch... I've a DELL Dell C3422WE at "only" 34" but the ability to switch between the laptop and the desktop is a-ma-zing :) you got me pondering on a 49" now thanks :) [image: __tpx__] [image: photo]

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
I use two 34" curved monitors side by side  Lionel B. Dyck <>< Github: https://github.com/lbdyck “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Bill Hitefield
Steve, I have not used that specific monitor, but I do use a curved monitor. Love it! For me, much better than a flat monitor. I was hooked after I tried the first one (a Samsung). Bill Hitefield > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Steve Beaver >

Opinion

2024-01-15 Thread Steve Beaver
Does anyone have an opinion on LG - 49" IPS LED Curved UltraWide Dual QHD 144Hz FreeSync and G-SYNC Compatible Monitor with HDR (HDMI, DisplayPort, USB) - Black Steve Beaver -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Direct branch entry to ICSF routines

2024-01-15 Thread Eric D Rossman
I really like ICSF (having worked on it for over 25 years), but I will say this right now: address-space-switch PCs are not cheap. Trying to shave a handful of instructions to call ICSF is not going to save enough cycles (or elapsed time) to be worthwhile. As Colin points out, storage

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Eric D Rossman
Answering a number of comments in order, in one message. First: I don't think being able to encrypt load libraries is worth it. Encrypted executables, in general, are not going to increase security. Jousma, David: > Encrypt everything with the same HLQ, with the same key > that's a big

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 15.01.2024 o 05:16, Phil Smith III pisze: Steve Estle wrote, in part: but we'd like to encrypt as much as possible in our environment Why? What problem are you trying to solve? Remember that DSE provides protection against exactly two attacks: 1) Someone getting at the wire between

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
It is being done everytime you buy new machine and use ICSF. TKE can be used for that, but even without it is feasible and secure. ...and secure. :-) 1. Master key is divided into parts. How many? 2 or more. 2. Each part is know to only one security officer. Note, the officers need not to know

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Programs are data. Keys are data. IEFBR14 code is datum. However there are different needs and requirements for data. Auditor always asked me about financial (application) data security. Never about programs. Of course one would like to have everything SECURE. Encryption is on of means. What to

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
While I strongly believe there is a technical reason behind, it is NOT the one described below. Both PDSE and basic PS can be encrypted. The requirement: SMS-managed. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 14.01.2024 o 06:50, Attila Fogarasi pisze: It is indeed a technical reason: PDS

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Seymour J Metz
It might be difficult to satisfy timing constraints using TCP/IP to connect Hercules to some real hardware. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Rick Troth
On 1/14/24 01:07, Phil Smith III wrote: aul Gilmartin asked: What about Format preserving encryption? Format-Preserving Encryption is for structured data, i.e., specific fields. You would not use it on a binary blob; at that point, you'd use XTS or one of the other AES modes whose

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Rick Troth
On 1/13/24 11:28, Steve Estle wrote: I know this seems innocuous, but we'd like to encrypt as much as possible in our environment ... Forgive my tone, Steve. And please don't take this as directed at you, but at the broader industry, especially at "seatback magazine management". Many

Re: Technical Reason? - Why you can't encrypt load libraries (PDSE format)?

2024-01-15 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
It can be set via software but can be disabled by control points. There are RACF controls on the Crypto services that are needed. There are controls that can used to stop one domain setting the key for another. More serious users will have TKE workstations with card readers and multiple key