Re: REXX Socket Calls

2013-06-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:22:34 -0500, Doug Henry doug_he...@usbank.com wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:29:57 -0500, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: I am not very knowledgeable on this sort of thing. Is AT-TLS something different from SSL? I don't really know. In the z/OS 1.12 Comm

Re: System abend 800 reason code 4

2013-05-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 30 May 2013 15:56:39 -0400, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: For reason code 4 the explanation says A program issued a SVC 114 the EXCPVR macro That may be a possible clue to your problem. It says you're using EXCPVR, and from z/OS V1R13.0 DFSMSdfp Advanced Services we can

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:15:42 -0500, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013 11:44:32 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: So do I have overkill? . Software disasters can be the hardest ones to plan for. What do you do if one of your critical applications has a program

Re: Getting DD DISP

2013-05-29 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 29 May 2013 16:54:49 -0500, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: Is there an easy way for a program to get the DISP (NEW/MOD/SHR/OLD) of a DD from the TIOT, or do you have to do a RDJFCB? I'm somewhat curious why you'd want to know, from a program, Kirk. But however you get it, I'll

Re: Rather interesting article on hacking the mainframe using ftp

2013-05-19 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sat, 18 May 2013 15:17:22 -0500, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: http://mainframed767.tumblr.com/post/50574743147/big-iron-back-door-maintp-part-two basically the person must be able to ftp into a UNIX subdirectory and to submit a job. They upload a program called netcat into

Re: Duplicate Batch Job

2013-05-08 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 7 May 2013 12:49:32 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2013 13:34:07 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: On 5/7/2013 5:02 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: The only way I can think of restricting is an exit in JES2. Or if this is a TSO User you may wish to look at

Re: NDM RACF002 Error But No Password Used

2013-04-17 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:54:12 -0400, Biller, Charles A (CHUCK) chuck.bil...@verizon.com wrote: Release 5. User reports he's not aware of a password change attempt. The credentials are in a sysin and even though the racf id is protected (no password) the ndm statements in the sysin has included

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-04-09 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 09:21:59 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: I have an outlying case to test my understanding: // SET FOO='WOM' // SET BAR=BAT // SET WOMBAT='SDB=YES' //* //STEP EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,PARMDD=SYSUT1 //SYSUT2DD SYSOUT=(,) //SYSUT1DD *,SYMBOLS=JCL

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-04-09 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 13:28:57 +0100, Martin Packer martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com wrote: I'm running a residency in the Autumn on 2.1 code (and you'll see an announcement as this one is expected to welcome customer etc nominations shortly). I mention this because Symbol Substitution via PARMDD is quite

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-04-03 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 07:29:11 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 06:47:01 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: Peter's most recent response: begin extract The 100 character restriction is applied to the following case, only: environment is APF; and jobstep program is

Re: Long Passwords

2013-03-22 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:18:48 -0400, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: In the long term, of course, RACF will surely change to allow phrases to be as short as anyone likes, subject only to installation control, and passwords to be optional, and then we'll have by a very long and roundabout

Re: Long Passwords

2013-03-22 Thread Walt Farrell
On 22 March 2013 14:50, EXT-Schwarz, Barry barry.schw...@boeing.com wrote: My mistake about after. How about during? On the TSO logon panel, if you enter the correct passphrase, do you also need to enter the current password when you enter a new password? I would test it but we don't

Re: Long Passwords

2013-03-20 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:44:41 -0400, Keith Smith keith.sm...@shawinc.com wrote: I stand corrected. The password is, in fact, the default group. There are way too many gotchas popping up... What happens if the password is expired? Will the password phrase still work? I guess I should test this too.

Re: Long Passwords

2013-03-20 Thread Walt Farrell
Barry Schwarz wrote: Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: To avoid this exposure always enter a password value and never tell your users what the password is. Except the user can usually change his password after he has logged on with the phrase. Really? How would he do that, if he doesn't know

Re: Weird ISPF scrolling problem

2013-03-09 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 18:31:15 +, Robert Prins robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com wrote: DOWN works without problems. If the penultimate line of the logical screen has an underlined sequence number, indicating that it's followed by hidden excluded lines, and the cursor is on the very last line of

Re: Retrieving output submitted by surrogates

2013-03-06 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 21:14:13 +0800, Robin Atwod abend...@gmail.com wrote: This is a rather arcane topic but hopefully one of you out there might have some insight. I am working on a problem where a customer uses our application to submit jobs to JES2, and then, when the output is available, the

Re: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com

2013-03-03 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 08:51:34 -0500, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: I come now to Tony Harminc's example: begin extract But SETRP generates a NOPR with an expression (related to the SDWA, I think) obviously intended (and I think commented) to fail if the length is not 0. However HLASM

Re: SDSF Rexx Issue - to copy SYSOUT into PDS

2013-03-01 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 08:59:58 +0530, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Walt, I am running this program under z/OS 1.13 system only. My concern doesn't affect you; the reply was specific to Steve, who is testing with IEBCOPY. Your problem should

Re: Secure Service Delivery

2013-02-22 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:14:52 -0500, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: I have experimented with this number---Note that it includes professional development, e.g., journal reading, web browsing, meeting attendance and the like, things that are not immediately relevant to the task at hand

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:26:41 -0600, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: So, just put an expiration time as part of a file name and you can patent it? These people have their head where the sun don't shine. OK, maybe nobody else has done this _exact_ thing. But, really? Of course, in

Re: SMS QUESTION - DATACLAS NOT DEFINED IN SMS ACS

2013-02-18 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:32:46 -0800, retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com wrote: It is also possible for the RACF resource owner of a dataset (specified in the RESOWNER field of the DFP operand on the ADDSD command) to have a default data class (specified in the DATACLASS field of the DFP

Re: How do people lock down the compilers inside CA Endevor?

2013-02-12 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:11:03 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:49:27 -0600, John McKown wrote: Another possible solution, which I did with different IBM module, is to write a small HLASM program. This program would verify how it was called by looking at the

Re: How do people lock down the compilers inside CA Endevor?

2013-02-11 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:32:36 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: This is a theoretical question. I am *not* an Endevor user. I am trying to solve a *similar* problem and this is the best way to explain it. Here's the question: at shops that use Endevor for all compiles, how do you lock

Re: JSON format in ISPF Services Guide?

2013-02-07 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 08:04:20 -0600, Kevin Minerley k60ek...@us.ibm.com wrote: I think you should be able to get to unresolved reference at: z/OS V1R13.0 ISPF Services Guide IBM Library Server -

Re: z/OS v2.1 preview

2013-02-06 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:16:52 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:16:38 +0200, גדי בן אבי wrote: o IBM plans to remove support for unsecured FTP connections used for z/OS software and service delivery October 1, 2013. At that time, it is planned that new

Re: SFTP vs. FTPS (was: z/OS v2.1 preview)

2013-02-06 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:27:18 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 08:57:41 -0600, Walt Farrell wrote: ... new System z software (products and service) downloads will require the use of FTPS (FTP using Secure Sockets Layer) or of Download Director

Re: Check out Apple Q1 2013 hardware sales: By the numbers | ZDNet

2013-01-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:51:49 -0500, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: _Apple Q1 2013 hardware sales: By the numbers | ZDNet_ (http://www.zdnet.com/apple-q1-2013-hardware-sales-by-the-numbers-710258/) So grasshopper, how's you mobile app on Z? This grasshopper is tempted to wonder why

Re: FTP z/OS to z/OS 501 Invalid data set name - codepage issue?

2013-01-18 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:47:13 +0100, Boris Lenz boris.l...@ims.sells.ch wrote: I can't get an FTP PUT to work with dataset names that contain a dollar sign (x'5B', which is the pound sign on the target system). Source system is z/OS, codepage IBM-500 Target system is z/OS, codepage IBM-285 FTP

Re: ICSF Symmetric Key being sent to a non-zOS system

2013-01-17 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:39:11 -0800, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Mark Jacobs wrote: I've been reading the ICSF Applications Programmers guide and I understand the process on how to transport ICSF keys to another zOS system using importer/exporter keys, but I have no idea on how it would

Re: Break a dataset into new record boundaries?

2013-01-15 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:04:30 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I've got a dataset that has been mangled through some misguided efforts such that original record boundaries have been lost. It used to be RECFM=V and now it is RECFM=F You did not say how it was mangled, and that can be

Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)

2013-01-05 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 16:24:34 +0100, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: BTW: I'm signed to both portals. Redalert is better, because it notifies me by email about news (no details in the mail AFAIR), but security portal does not send notifications. Maybe this is matter of some

Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)

2013-01-03 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:38:14 -0600, Robert Carballo robert.carba...@officedepot.com wrote: Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Here is the link explaining the issue: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21620945 I did some searching but can't seem to really find details about

Re: BPXP024I BPXAS INITIATOR STARTED ON BEHALF OF... ( was: JVMDUMP032I message)

2012-12-29 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sat, 29 Dec 2012 07:42:34 +0100, ibmmain nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: I have also seen this happen with IBMUSER, and the colleague doing the ftp swears that he didn't use IBMUSER for his ftp. If this was for an inbound FTP session, do you have the FTP server configured to run as IBMUSER? --

Re: BCPII and activation profile

2012-12-17 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:30:24 -0800, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: I never saw a reply to Lizette's post. We also have an interest in the same topic. We want to encourage members of the technical staff to manage our sandbox LPARs rather than pester--er, request--Operations to shut

Re: BCPII and activation profile

2012-12-17 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:16:06 -0800, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: As for the need to check SAF: if HMC provided full granularity of access control, we wouldn't even need BCPii. We could just let all Tech Support folks get to HMC and let him enforce the rules: allow Tech Support

Re: BPXWDYN missing dynalloc key.

2012-12-11 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:04:00 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I double checked and SVC 99 has two keys, DALEXPDT DALEXPDL, to assign expiration dates. It would be very helpful to me if BPXWDYN could use these as well because I want the equivalent of EXPDT=99000 for

Re: Storage Obtained By an SRB

2012-12-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:33:00 -0500, micheal butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: SRB's are documented in CHapter 9 of The Authorized Assembler Guide I did a search using keyword subpool and came up with no hits for chapter 9 search on keyword storage yielded 3 hits for chapter 9 none of which

Re: Common Data Space Basics

2012-12-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:30:11 -0600, Donald Likens dlik...@infosecinc.com wrote: My memory objects are much smaller than 1M and I do not want to do my own storage management (braking up the megabyte of storage). How were you planning on handling storage management within the data space you

Re: RACF Class PROGRAM

2012-12-09 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:05:10 +0100, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: In general you are 100% right. However many people use PROGRAM class only to fulfill requirements of TCPIP setup and other stuff. In this case they define CL(PROGRAM) ** profile and and several IBM-z/OS-provided

Re: RACF Class PROGRAM

2012-12-09 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 13:46:22 +0100, ibmmain nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: thanks for the confirmation. But: I have no clue how to run an experiment on this. I guess I'll be keeping what's left in the program class. (The * profile with certain data sets that I have shown). The experiment is simple,

Re: RACF Class PROGRAM

2012-12-07 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 08:20:28 +0100, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: BTW: IMHO BASIC mode is quite good mode, you don't have to move to EHANCED mode just because such mode exists. Sorry, Radoslaw, but even though I'm not an IBMer any more, I have to disagree with you. As the

Re: RACF Class PROGRAM

2012-12-07 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 12:08:32 +0100, ibmmain nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: RACF use the best match principle. If it can't find a matching profile/member, it will move on to profiles with wildcards: So, for example, it will move from profile XYZ to XY* to X* to *. If no match are found, a default

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND BURN NOT FOUND/ Which loadlib should command processor be located in

2012-10-22 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:19:48 -0400, micheal butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: TSOLIB activate myloadlb I remember once debugging ISPF programs the way I should you in the example TESTAUTH 'LOADLIB(ISPF)' CP then Load myloadlib(commandprocessor) set breakpoints on commandprocessor type

Re: 047 in TSO command processor

2012-10-01 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:43:21 -0400, micheal butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: Hi, I am running a TSO command processor which needs to be APF authorized The load library is in PROG00 marked as APF authorized The command name is both in AUTHPGM and AUTHNAMES in IKJTSO00 I know that

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 01:05:26 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:25:32 -0500, Kenneth J. Kripke wrote: DATA AT PSW 0001CE48 - 58101000 0A6B5023 Data shows a MODESET SVC which does require authorization. Check the AUTHPGM specifications in IKJTSOxx in

Re: zFS auditfid support

2012-08-21 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:53:01 -0700, retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com wrote: Both MXG (which requires SAS) and RACFICE (from SAMPLIB) provide the capability to adjust the selection criteria to anything you wish. But this assumes the data of interest is actually recorded. I found

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:51:33 -0500, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Also, remember that we are talking about TSO. An archaic piece of software, which IBM has just seeming lost interest in. Imagine what could be done if the non-APF user code ran in a subspace, like CICS uses.

Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial

2012-07-23 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:41:57 -0500, Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn wrote: Can I interpret this to get non-vsam used or allocated size? DSCBTTR TTR of format-1 DSCB for non-VSAM data set No. IGGCSI00 simply returns information from the catalog. DSCBs are in the VTOC, not the catalog.

Re: RACF question

2012-07-10 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 16:49:13 -0400, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Joel, Hers the exact error: 11.51.03 STC00472 CSV025I PROGRAM CONTROLLED MODULE ADDUSER NOT ACCESSED, USE 11.51.03 STC00472 IEF196I CSV025I PROGRAM CONTROLLED MODULE ADDUSER NOT ACCES 11.51.03 STC00472 IEF196I

Re: Searching for a cross=reference list of manuals ...

2012-07-06 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:18:11 -0700, Mark Yuhas mark.yu...@paccar.com wrote: Prior to Windows 7, the VIEW tab had a detail setting that would dispay the title. Windows 7 doesn't work that way for me. Have you made sure that in Windows Explorer, View-Show Details, that you have selected the

Re: SMF Type 80 relocation section detail mapping macro

2012-06-28 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:44:37 -0500, Donald Likens dlik...@infosecinc.com wrote: I've been looking through the books but have not found a detail mapping macro for the RACF SMF type 80 relocation sections. I'll keep looking but in the mean time, does anyone know what and where they are? Note: I

Re: Calling idcams

2012-06-20 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:46:43 -0400, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: I am in the process of wanting to call idcams, principally, a define and delete alias function in Assembler. I have looked at IGGCSI00 and various examples, it doesn't appear I can use IGGCSI00 for this purpose. Can

Re: Calling idcams

2012-06-20 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:58:58 -0500, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Another possibility (not sure) is to set up a TSO environment in your code using IKJTSOEV and then invoking a REXX program to issue the TSO commands. I don't know if this will work. And, IMO, it is

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