Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies • The Register

Hmm. We have a few CA products, but our entire enterprise is constructed around Brocade switches. Oh my. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

> REXXTRY is roughly to REXX what csh is to C. ? csh does not read C statements and execute them; it's a scripting language. REXXTRY is not a scripting language, although it is a great convenience for the REXX programmer. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Throwback Thursday: Hey mister, got the time? | Computerworld

Mark Regan wrote: >"This law-enforcement agency stores its mainframe data with time stamps on >every record. That can be important, especially in court cases, says a >database admin pilot fish there."

Re: SPOOL Volumes

Renaming the Dataset on the volume is the only way from IPL Or restart of JES2 to prevent the access Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Steely.Mark > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:30 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: SPOOL

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

I thought the Soldier of Fortran guy had been updating and providing uss specifics for some open source penetration tests. Rob Schramm On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 2:14 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > If it works it's because they didn't properly configure the server. Just > connecting to the server

Throwback Thursday: Hey mister, got the time? | Computerworld

"This law-enforcement agency stores its mainframe data with time stamps on every record. That can be important, especially in court cases, says a database admin pilot fish there." ...continued at:

Re: IEC614I Scratch

Once again motivated to look for the message in recent OPERLOG. Found something I did not see a few days ago. This is apparently not the same case that OP described, but it is an instance of IEC614I SCRATCH FAILED. (There were a few other cases of the message, always from NDM/ConnectDirect,

Re: Throwback Thursday: Hey mister, got the time? | Computerworld

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 3:48 PM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:30:09 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > > >Mark Regan wrote: > > > >>"This law-enforcement agency stores its mainframe data with time stamps on > >>every record.

Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 02:49:12PM -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > [...] > But I wouldn't VMS is a mainframe in any current sense, especially since it > only currently exists for a dead hardware platform. And it's not maintained > by HP or HPE, but by VMS Software, Inc. (which makes some of us

Re: SPOOL Volumes

Will adding "$ZSPOOL volser" to the initialization deck immediately after the SPOOLDEF statement prevent JES from using the volume? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Steely.Mark > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:30 AM > To:

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

If your site already uses Qualys, then it can be used to scan z/OS too. On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:53 PM Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) < lionel.d...@va.gov> wrote: > Is there a tool available that can do a network security scan of a z/OS > system to identify network vulnerabilities? > > thanks > >

Re: SPOOL Volumes

You could change the UCB in your IODF to come up OFFLINE during an IPL. It would be available to be varied online if needed, but this way it would default to being offline when you come up. The second option is to rename the dataset on the volume to something else, and then you could

Fwd: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies • The Register

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Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

You're talking about outbound, for which port scanning is not relevant. The text "One can connect to the server with HELLO call" also refers to a TCP/IP connection, not to sending a SPOOL file. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:29:51PM +0200, R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2018-07-11 o 20:07, Tom Marchant pisze: > >On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:06:59 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > > > >BTW, would it count as a mainframe if I ran one inside emulator > > >on PC? > >Sure, if you can emulate 170 processors, 32 TB of

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

Shmuel, the SMTP server is mainly spool based. So you can create a text file (Defined in the RFC you mentioned), write it to the spool in the write and class used by the server and it will be sent. You can use fake name and fake domain (The server will state "I don't know you", ut will send the

Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies • The Register

Before CA, I worked for the telephone company that bought ADR and then sold it to CA two years later. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 4:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies • The Register

Are they integrated better now? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 2:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA

Re: SPOOL Volumes

A somewhat simpler way to accomplish the offline condition is to put a command into COMMNDxx or IEACMDxx to vary the volume offline very early in IPL, specifically before JES2 starts. The IODF solution is fine but entails more trouble--and likely more people. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern

Re: Throwback Thursday: Hey mister, got the time? | Computerworld

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:30:09 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Mark Regan wrote: > >>"This law-enforcement agency stores its mainframe data with time stamps on >>every record. That can be important, especially in court cases, says a >>database admin pilot fish there." >

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

Spoofing? You can't spoof the chain of Received header fields. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 1:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:32:55 +, Pew, Curtis G wrote: >On Jul 11, 2018, at 11:27 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote: >> That's sort of true, but it vastly expands the competition. It makes HTML, >> even GML programming languages. Is JCL a worse programming language than GML? > >That’s kind of how I

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

If it works it's because they didn't properly configure the server. Just connecting to the server isn't enough to send an e-mail to it. RFC 4954 came out in July 2007 and RFC 2554 came out in March 1999. sendmail has supported it since 8.10. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

I don’t think Qualys will identify configuration issue (which we do inside the mainframe with IronSphere). It will do port scan, try to ping it, but if your mainframe is well configured, it will block port scan as well. ITschak נשלח מה-iPad שלי ‫ב-12 ביולי 2018, בשעה 22:11, ‏‏Mark Regan ‏

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

Since when does z/VSE have GDGs?? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tony Thigpen Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 1:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX as JCL replacement Restarts with GDGs is one thing z/VSE is much better at.

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

> I suppose it's to much to expect for users to look at the trace fields to determine the provenances of messages. Nine out of ten recipients have no idea how to do so, and would not know what they were looking at if they did. And given spoofing, look-alikes and punycode, I'm not sure it's a

Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies • The Register

This is a bigger WTF? than 1989 when CA bought the ADR pieces that I think AT owned. We had just signed up for ADR-Datacom/DB and IDEAL and we were used to the CA way of not doing things. Looking back CA managed to keep the best ADR guys and lots of them are still there. Over the years they also

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:56:45 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: >On 13/07/2018 1:55 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> WTF? Dynamic allocation has supported temporary data sets since Old Man >> Noach cornered the market in Gopher Wood. We don't need mo stinking JCL for >> that. >I assume you're correct (I

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

All the main disk and tape managers have GDGs. Tony Thigpen Frank Swarbrick wrote on 07/12/2018 06:06 PM: Since when does z/VSE have GDGs?? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tony Thigpen Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 1:35 PM To:

Re: Throwback Thursday: Hey mister, got the time? | Computerworld

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:58:42 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > >3 minutes off a hour? Usually set to a quarter or half hour offset. >Here's the exceptions in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9200:44 Monrovia Liberia was >-00:43:08 then -00:44. >

Re: Throwback Thursday: Hey mister, got the time? | Computerworld

I would go by TV time. U.S. prime time TV is 8pm ET, 7pm CT, 6pm MT, basically creating one time zone. On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 6:08 PM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:58:42 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > > > >3 minutes off a hour?

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

On 13/07/2018 1:55 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: Again it is something that we take for granted in JCL that becomes difficult to do correctly without it. WTF? Dynamic allocation has supported temporary data sets since Old Man Noach cornered the market in Gopher Wood. We don't need mo stinking JCL

Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies • The Register

Hmm Goal systems will now be Broadcom. Time to FLEE, FLIC or just FLIM FLAM? On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > What happens to CA-World? Now that was always a great party, New Orleans, > Orlando, Las Vegas. Helped a boy from the other side of the world explore >

Re: REXX as JCL replacement - Performance

Yes, runnning in programs batch is always more efficient than in TSO - just as invoking assembler programs from REXX is more efficient than invoking REXX from assembler (via "ISPLINK" is it?)   If JCL is 'strange', consider then native SMP/E. I never had a problem with JCL or with native SMP/E

Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies • The Register

What happens to CA-World? Now that was always a great party, New Orleans, Orlando, Las Vegas. Helped a boy from the other side of the world explore "culture". On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > This is a bigger WTF? than 1989 when CA bought the ADR pieces that I think >

Re: IEC614I Scratch

Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >Once again motivated to look for the message in recent OPERLOG. Found >something I did not see a few days ago. This is apparently not the same case >that OP described, but it is an instance of IEC614I SCRATCH FAILED. (There >were a few other cases of the message,

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

Hi Lionel, There are free/libre/open-source tools such as Nmap, OpenVAS, Metasploit that you could use for what you intend to do. The interweb is full of documentation, videos and other materials on how to use these tools (also in the context of testing Mainframes). Alternatively, commercial

Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies • The Register

Your licensing fees will probably double next year... Fred! > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: donderdag 12 juli 2018 23:39 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Weirdest. Acquisition.

Re: Sysplex between two hardware

Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >RLS require Parallel Sysplex, but not everyone need it. We should be more precise and careful, to avoid any misunderstandings. VSAM RLS requires: * At least one z/OS instance (let's go with exactly one in this example); * A Coupling Facility (CF)(*), which can even be

Re: Broadcom to buy CA?

Good for CA ? Especially the mainframe side . On Thu 12 Jul, 2018, 8:58 AM Mike Schwab, wrote: > FCP / FICON switches under the name Brocade. > > https://www.broadcom.com/company/oem-partners/fibre-channel-networking/ibm > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:10 PM Jake Anderson > wrote: > > > >

Re: Z114 to z14 experience any ?

W dniu 2018-07-11 o 18:00, Jake Anderson pisze: Absolutely we have looked into that aspect.. however wanted to know if there was any known issues Jake, You plan to perform a jump from z114 to z14. That means z11->z14 with no z12, z13. Is it risky? No, I don't think so. For every hardware

Re: Sysplex between two hardware

To avoid misunderstandings: n*z/OS + m*CF = Parallel Syplex, and n=1...32, m=1...16. I don't know what "most people" interpret, and without some sociological survey. My survey told me that no one of my family members, neighbours or local shop seller do understand parallel sysplex as you

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

On Jul 11, 2018, at 11:27 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote: > > That's sort of true, but it vastly expands the competition. It makes HTML, > even GML programming languages. Is JCL a worse programming language than GML? > That’s kind of how I meant it. I think of JCL as much closer to XML or JSON

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

And that's the point... SR 14,14 BR 15 is easier and clearer than machine language, but main {} is (sorta) clearer than that. sas p.s. bonus points if you see what I did there ;-) On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 9:19 AM, John Eells wrote: > Ed Jaffe wrote: > >> On 7/11/2018 4:04 PM, Pew, Curtis

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

Ed Jaffe wrote: On 7/11/2018 4:04 PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote: I don’t think it’s true that JCL is the worst programming language (with all due respect to Fred Brooks) because it isn’t really a programming language. Should it have been a programming language? Almost certainly, as shown by Unix

Re: [External] Re: Broadcom to buy CA?

I didn't know Broadcom bought Brocade - turns out it happened back in 2016. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 11:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External]

Re: TSO TEST breakpoint subcommand call either looping or not being executed

Hi Just had thought in the scenario outlined Below where I am executing the instruction breakpoint from a different storage area the integrity of the CC remains intact So that in a temporary area I execute a TM Which sets the CC and the I go to a instruction let’s say BZ the condition code

Re: Z114 to z14 experience any ?

Timothy Sipples wrote: The z14 ZR1 does not support ESA/390 IPLs, so please check your inventory of IPL'able items such as DFSMS recovery utilities, z/VM installation DVDs, ZZSA, and old Linux distributions, as applicable, to make sure they're modern enough. There's one available workaround for

Re: NVAS admin panel issue

George Rodriguez wrote: >On the ADM menu there's an option 7 - Define an Administrator for making a >regular user an administrator. You need to be an Admin already to use this >option. If I'm right, the initial system came with a default administrator. The default one is PUBUSER. What the

Re: NVAS admin panel issue

On the ADM menu there's an option 7 - Define an Administrator for making a regular user an administrator. You need to be an Admin already to use this option. If I'm right, the initial system came with a default administrator. To get a list of who's already define as an administrator, select option

Re: NVAS admin panel issue

Thanks for the info, Elardus, I wasn't sure if you needed to be an admin to just do a display! *George Rodriguez* *Specialist II - IT Solutions* *IT Enterprise Applications* *PX - 47652* *(561) 357-7652 (office)* *(954) 415-7586 (mobile)* *School District of Palm Beach County* *3348 Forest Hill

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

Nice program, I made it a long time ago for load tests and called it IEFBR15. Grtn, Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Steve Smith > Sent: 12 July, 2018 16:19 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re:

Re: IEC614I Scratch

Well, I did the 'd mpf' and that message is not there. So, I'm assuming that the 'IEC614I Scratch' is being written out somewhere. Any ideas? Hervey From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2018 8:40

Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus

R.S. wrote: >Take care, current PC servers can have more memory than mainframe. It have been true for at least 10->15 years. >Current PC do support 32Gbps FC and 40Gbps or 100Gbps LAN NIC. How many? Enough. >I can't tell current processor limits, but it is at least half of mainframe. >Last,

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

No, the GML Starter Set is implemented in Script but is not Script and has very different syntax. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Andrew Rowley Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

> Again it is something that we take for granted in JCL that becomes > difficult to do correctly without it. WTF? Dynamic allocation has supported temporary data sets since Old Man Noach cornered the market in Gopher Wood. We don't need mo stinking JCL for that. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

Why are positional problems an issue? They should be just as easy to parse as keyword parameters, although I probably wouldn't use REXX for the job. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

Ed said 'constitute programming'. He did not use the term 'language'. Ah, another war of words! -- My assembler instructor in computer school got into the biz when 'programming' changes were made with Home Depot tools. Hard to fit the term 'language' to wire clippers and soldering irons. OK,

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

Well, progrmming is what the TV networks do. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 12:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

It was explained to me in my brief contact with the language back in the early 1970's that WFL was essentially a dialect of Algol 60 with no I/IO facilities. What it grew to become in later years I don't know. It would be interesting (if I had round tuits) to give the Unisys manual a thorough

REXX as JCL replacement - Performance

My information may be out of date... but as I remember someone, possibly Barry Merrill, did the research and found that running a program under TSO cost about three times what it cost in batch. And REXX's are usually run in a TSO environment, even when run as TSO-Batch. Has this changed? Perhaps

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

There are various tools that do network scans looking for vulnerabilities on the systems being scanned and while we have them for windows, *nix platforms, there seem to be none (that we can find) that will test the security of the network interfaces on z/OS. That is what we are looking for.

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

I doubt that many programmers ,or lexicographers, would agree with that. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Ed Jaffe Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 12:05 AM To:

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

Thanks; looks like a primitive scripting language; I'd prefer Perl, REXX or even the shell that is not to be Bourne. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Marchant

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

Does your SMTP server not do authentication? That would certain get the auditors' attention. Do your users respond to phish attempts? Another security problem, and one that has nothing to do with the mainframe. I suppose it's to much to expect for users to look at the trace fields to

Re: Deleting all members of a PDS

What's wrong with PDS86 fixpds reset or delete 'your.pds(*)'? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

Well, there's certainly some Algol 60 influence on the syntax, but it didn't have an Algol feel when I looked at it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent:

Re: Seeking a tool to do a network security scan of z/OS

Shmuel, I refill the refrigerator doing pentests. I done this and many other attacks on clients mainframes and in 90% of the cases, I am able to send emails using the mainframe smtp configured as an MTA. if you look at you smtp server log you might see some TCP connections (bingo!) or just users

Re: [External] Re: Broadcom to buy CA?

Don't know if this is gonna fly after all. Broadcom's stock is down 19 and CA's is up 16. Bloomberg reports large shareholders are citing 'lack of focus'. In a message dated 7/12/2018 8:44:25 AM Central Standard Time, rpomm...@sfgmembers.com writes:   I didn't know Broadcom bought Brocade -

Re: [External] Re: Broadcom to buy CA?

It is typical in buyouts for the buyer's stock to go down and the company being bought to go up, with exceptions. OREXXMan JCL is the buggy whip of 21st century computing. Stabilize it. Put Pipelines in the z/OS base. Would you rather process data one character at a time (Unix/C style), or one

SPOOL Volumes

We are z/OS v2.2. During a DR exercise most times a cold start is performed for JES2. I noticed that a volume (that is currently online but not currently used by JES2 in production) was discovered and put into use by the JES2 cold start. This was not a problem at DR but is there a way to

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

It's a piece of cake using REXX with ISPF Table Services. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, July 9,

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

> And IBM wisely originally implemented the POSIX shell, > only later caving to pressure from (t)csh partisans. IMHO it was shortsighted of IBM to only implement what they needed to get certification. The Eunix community had long since made certain optional facilities, e.g., csh, Perl, de