Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
etz Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib IMHO, IEFSDPPT is an anachronism and you should use SCHEDxx unless there are compelling reasons not to. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~sme

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-21 Thread Peter Relson
Best practice is surely to do what the vendor (ISV or IBM) tells you to do in this regard. You shouldn't be (and likely are not) making up things to put in SCHEDxx. You should not be modifying entries in IEFSDPPT. I suspect that some IBM products that need a PPT entry are not identified in

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 20.08.2020 o 16:58, Carmen Vitullo pisze: I'm afraid to say I am in the same boat, old entries never removed for the same reason, If there are duplicate entries I'm not sure who wins, I suspect SCHEDxx because it is loaded after? I suspect only OEM product entries should be in SCHEDxx

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
20, 2020 11:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib My main question is which should be used? The sysprogs over time do not always read manuals or review parmlib for changes. I know this has been out there for a really long time. I am

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Tom Conley
On 8/19/2020 3:00 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: List - I have been researching whether we need to review all of our SCHEDxx for PPT and remove anything that is currently shipped by IBM in Linklib for IEFSDPPT Does anyone have any observations on this? I am currently working on some

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Matthew Stitt
Check the z/OS Initialization and Tuning Reference. Table 55 lists the supplied entries for the SCHEDxx PPT. This is what I used to clean up my PPT entries. Matthew -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Carmen Vitullo
maybe somewhat helpful, I checked the CA-AUDIT report I received and checked out SCHED00 member this is what I found DATASET SMFPREF PROGRAM WHEREINTEG SECURITY NON- TIMING CPU STOR NAME

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Michael Babcock
And I thought there was a D PPT command now too. On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 8:11 AM Peter Relson wrote: > It doesn't seem like the posts were answering Lizette's thought/question. > > > > > > I have been researching whether we need to review all of our SCHEDxx for > > PPT > > and remove anything

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Carmen Vitullo
My main question is which should be used? The sysprogs over time do not always read manuals or review parmlib for changes. I know this has been out there for a really long time. I am trying to understand which is needed today. If we should go with the LINKLIB module, what do I do to SCHEDxx -

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I'm afraid to say I am in the same boat, old entries never removed for the same reason, If there are duplicate entries I'm not sure who wins, I suspect SCHEDxx because it is loaded after? I suspect only OEM product entries should be in SCHEDxx but I probably have entries that need to be

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Lizette Koehler
, August 20, 2020 7:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib It doesn't seem like the posts were answering Lizette's thought/question. I have been researching whether we need to review all of our SCHEDxx for PPT and remove anything

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Carmen Vitullo
It doesn't seem like the posts were answering Lizette's thought/question. I have been researching whether we need to review all of our SCHEDxx for PPT and remove anything that is currently shipped by IBM in Linklib for IEFSDPPT This relates to whether you want things in your SCHEDxx that are

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-20 Thread Peter Relson
It doesn't seem like the posts were answering Lizette's thought/question. I have been researching whether we need to review all of our SCHEDxx for PPT and remove anything that is currently shipped by IBM in Linklib for IEFSDPPT This relates to whether you want things in your SCHEDxx that are

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-19 Thread Larre Shiller
Hi Lizette - We used to meticulously go through the SCHEDxx defaults and carefully "nullify" any entries for products that we were not using, but it just became an administrative and logistical headache. So, after some amount of research and internal discussion, we finally decided that this

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
Subject to APF. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 3:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs

Re: Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-19 Thread ITschak Mugzach
PPT can assign authority to program names instead of user-id. Review entries that are assigned bypass security, or bypass data integrity (usually storage keys as well). Have a look at STIG document AAMV0160 from DISA. BTW, our product, IronSphere, monitors and reports on this automatically.

Help with SCHEDxx Parmlib vs. IEFSDPPT in Linklib

2020-08-19 Thread Lizette Koehler
List - I have been researching whether we need to review all of our SCHEDxx for PPT and remove anything that is currently shipped by IBM in Linklib for IEFSDPPT Does anyone have any observations on this? I am currently working on some DB2 upgrades and it was recommended to remove IRLM