Re: VTAMAPPL PGM
The SyzCMD/z program is also available because of an agreement we have with IBM to ADCD users at for only 5% of the retail price (which is already very low). It does everything that the CBT Commands program on file 19 does, plus adds more than twice the number of extra features. One of them is the ability to wait for VTAM or to do things if VTAM is UP or DOWN. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
Yahoo! Mail -- the Web version -- *still* does not use HTTPS for most communications AFAIK. For example, if you're using a free wi-fi hotspot at a coffee shop, and you access Yahoo! Mail via their Web interface, practically everything except your login credentials flows in the clear. A fairly unsophisticated attacker can intercept that traffic and spoof your browser -- and access all your e-mail -- for up to 7 calendar days (the default timeout). Security professionals have been warning Yahoo! and criticizing them for a decade. Google Mail and Microsoft Hotmail, among others, don't have the problem. (Google has always encrypted its Web UI for e-mail.) Yes, implementing HTTPS costs money. So do security breaches! In short, don't access Yahoo! Mail over any network that you don't trust -- or, better yet, don't access Yahoo! Mail over the Web at all. Access via IMAP -- iPhone or iPad, as examples -- using the built-in mail client is encrypted. Access via the free Zimbra Desktop software is also encrypted, to pick another example. Or don't use Yahoo! Mail at all. Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
OT: I received a purported .doc file which appears to be a zip file full of XMLs
I do trust the sender and apparently they cannot (easily?) send me it as a PDF. Neither Word2002(XP) nor Wordpad properly open it. I unzipped it and tried sending the XMLs to IE and Firefox and they didn't do anything. Any ideas? -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
IODF for new computer
Hi, We just ordered a new z114 that will replace our z10BC. I have to create an IODF for the new computer. All required maintenance has been applied. Is there a way to do this without redefining all of the current definitions? Thanks Gadi לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי החברה וזכויות החתימה בה, כל הצעה, התחייבות או מצג מטעם החברה, מחייבים מסמך נפרד וחתום על ידי מורשי החתימה של החברה, הנושא את לוגו החברה או שמה המודפס ובצירוף חותמת החברה. בהעדר מסמך כאמור (לרבות מסמך סרוק) המצורף להודעת דואר אלקטרוני זאת, אין לראות באמור בהודעה אלא משום טיוטה לדיון, ואין להסתמך עליה לביצוע פעולה עסקית או משפטית כלשהי. Please note that in accordance with Malam's signatory rights, no offer, agreement, concession or representation is binding on the company, unless accompanied by a duly signed separate document (or a scanned version thereof), affixed with the company's seal. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IODF for new computer
From: גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com Subject: IODF for new computer We just ordered a new z114 that will replace our z10BC. I have to create an IODF for the new computer. Gadi, are you sure you mean IODF and not IOCDS ? One of the first thing you need to do when you get a new HW is to feed him with your IOCDS and make a POR. Afterwards, your z114 will be able to see all yout attached HW. Can you please clarify ? Walter Marguccio z/OS Systems Programmer BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH Munich - Germany -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: OT: I received a purported .doc file which appears to be a zip file full of XMLs
Word 2007 changed to a zipped, XML based file format (.docx). There is an addin to older varions of Word to read 2007 files: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx Alternatively, the sender might be able to use save as in Word and save it to a Word 2002 file format. Regards Andrew Rowley -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software Pty. Ltd. Phone: +61 413 302 386 On 16/07/2012 6:21 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I do trust the sender and apparently they cannot (easily?) send me it as a PDF. Neither Word2002(XP) nor Wordpad properly open it. I unzipped it and tried sending the XMLs to IE and Firefox and they didn't do anything. Any ideas? -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IODF for new computer
Once I created the IODF, I can create input to IOCP that can be read by the new computer. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Walter Marguccio Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IODF for new computer From: גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com Subject: IODF for new computer We just ordered a new z114 that will replace our z10BC. I have to create an IODF for the new computer. Gadi, are you sure you mean IODF and not IOCDS ? One of the first thing you need to do when you get a new HW is to feed him with your IOCDS and make a POR. Afterwards, your z114 will be able to see all yout attached HW. Can you please clarify ? Walter Marguccio z/OS Systems Programmer BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH Munich - Germany -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי החברה וזכויות החתימה בה, כל הצעה, התחייבות או מצג מטעם החברה, מחייבים מסמך נפרד וחתום על ידי מורשי החתימה של החברה, הנושא את לוגו החברה או שמה המודפס ובצירוף חותמת החברה. בהעדר מסמך כאמור (לרבות מסמך סרוק) המצורף להודעת דואר אלקטרוני זאת, אין לראות באמור בהודעה אלא משום טיוטה לדיון, ואין להסתמך עליה לביצוע פעולה עסקית או משפטית כלשהי. Please note that in accordance with Malam's signatory rights, no offer, agreement, concession or representation is binding on the company, unless accompanied by a duly signed separate document (or a scanned version thereof), affixed with the company's seal. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Reconfigurable Storage - What's going on here?
We swapped out a z10 to a z196 processor last weekend and on one of the lpars we're seeing something that I don't understand. The lpar in question has been defined with 6GB memory with 2GB in reserve, same as it was on the old z10. But when we IPL the zOS 1.12 image on the new processor we're seeing this; IEE174I 07.10.13 DISPLAY REAL STORAGE STATUS ONLINE-NOT RECONFIGURABLE 0M-3072M ONLINE-RECONFIGURABLE 3072M-6144M PENDING OFFLINE NONE 2048M IN OFFLINE STORAGE ELEMENT(S) 0M UNASSIGNED STORAGE STORAGE INCREMENT SIZE IS 256M Can anyone explain why three of the initial six GB is coming up as ONLINE-RECONFIGURABLE? -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL The Doctor: You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better? Young Amy: Yes. The Doctor: Everything's going to be fine. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IODF for new computer
For a while, but I'm not sure that the PCHIPID's will be the same. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Walter Marguccio Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 2:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IODF for new computer From: גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com Subject: Re: IODF for new computer Once I created the IODF, I can create input to IOCP that can be read by the new computer. I thought you could use your existing IODF, used by your existing z10, to create an IOCP input file. You then give the latter to the stand-alone IOCP of your z114 and make POR. Aren't you going to share your HW (CUs, DASD, terminals, and so on) between z10 and z114 for a while ? Walter Marguccio z/OS Systems Programmer BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH Munich - Germany -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי החברה וזכויות החתימה בה, כל הצעה, התחייבות או מצג מטעם החברה, מחייבים מסמך נפרד וחתום על ידי מורשי החתימה של החברה, הנושא את לוגו החברה או שמה המודפס ובצירוף חותמת החברה. בהעדר מסמך כאמור (לרבות מסמך סרוק) המצורף להודעת דואר אלקטרוני זאת, אין לראות באמור בהודעה אלא משום טיוטה לדיון, ואין להסתמך עליה לביצוע פעולה עסקית או משפטית כלשהי. Please note that in accordance with Malam's signatory rights, no offer, agreement, concession or representation is binding on the company, unless accompanied by a duly signed separate document (or a scanned version thereof), affixed with the company's seal. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Defining OSA CHPid
We have an OSA Express 2 trying to define it as an OSA-ICC. We changed the channel type in HCD to be OSC, defined the OSC control unit etc. Activated it and now we see the following: In the channels work area, it says that it is Reseerved - Definition error. According to Channel Problem Determination, it says 'The channel is defined as an OSA3270, but the hardware is not of the type that supports OSA3270' Are not all OSA Express2's created equal and able to do ICC? Is there something else we are missing? We already have 4 other OSC's defined and working on other CECs and they are all defined identically. thanks Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: OT: I received a purported .doc file which appears to be a zip file full of XMLs
Another alternative that may also be useful for this and other incompatibilities: Download and install Free Apache OpenOffice Suite at http://www.openoffice.org/ , or LibreOffice, a 2010 split-off from OpenOffice (when it was unclear whether OpenOffice development could continue after Oracle bought Sun). This alternative can both load and save documents in its own formats, or in various MS Office as well as other formats. Compatibility is not always 100% but it should be close enough. Might even be able to use it to load an offending document and then save it in a format compatible with your ancient Word 2002, if you prefer to work with it there. The user interfaces with OpenOffice and LibreOffice are of course somewhat different from MS Office, but have the advantage that they are less likely to change than those of MS Office, subject to the whims of a for-profit vendor, whose main goal is to encourage or force you to buy additional software at every hardware and Operating System upgrade. J. C. Ewing On 07/16/2012 05:49 AM, Andrew Rowley wrote: Word 2007 changed to a zipped, XML based file format (.docx). There is an addin to older varions of Word to read 2007 files: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx Alternatively, the sender might be able to use save as in Word and save it to a Word 2002 file format. Regards Andrew Rowley -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Defining OSA CHPid
W dniu 2012-07-16 15:02, Dana Mitchell pisze: We have an OSA Express 2 trying to define it as an OSA-ICC. We changed the channel type in HCD to be OSC, defined the OSC control unit etc. Activated it and now we see the following: In the channels work area, it says that it is Reseerved - Definition error. According to Channel Problem Determination, it says 'The channel is defined as an OSA3270, but the hardware is not of the type that supports OSA3270' Are not all OSA Express2's created equal and able to do ICC? Is there something else we are missing? We already have 4 other OSC's defined and working on other CECs and they are all defined identically. What is your card model? Provide CCIN and/or FC (feature code). Not all OSA card can be ICC. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może być jedynie jej adresat z wyłączeniem dostępu osób trzecich. Jeżeli nie jesteś adresatem niniejszej wiadomości lub pracownikiem upoważnionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, że jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne działanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i może być karalne. Jeżeli otrzymałeś tę wiadomość omyłkowo, prosimy niezwłocznie zawiadomić nadawcę wysyłając odpowiedź oraz trwale usunąć tę wiadomość włączając w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorised to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. BRE Bank SA, 00-950 Warszawa, ul. Senatorska 18, tel. +48 (22) 829 00 00, fax +48 (22) 829 00 33, www.brebank.pl, e-mail: i...@brebank.pl Sąd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sądowego, nr rejestru przedsiębiorców KRS 025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Według stanu na dzień 01.01.2012 r. kapitał zakładowy BRE Banku SA (w całości wpłacony) wynosi 168.410.984 złotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: HSM ODDITY - NOT RELEASING EMPTY ML2 TAPES
Hi Allan, I issued the command - HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) - but HSM didn't release the tapes. In this LPAR these tapes belong to a dedicated HSM pool. Would you hazard a guess as to why the tapes still show when I issue the LIST TTOC SELECT(BOTH) 020052 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020053 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020054 3590-1 ML2 0003932100 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020055 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020056 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020057 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020059 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020065 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* From: Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 1:51:41 PM Subject: Re: HSM ODDITY - NOT RELEASING EMPTY ML2 TAPES HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) will release empty backup/ml2 tapes from HSM control without a tape mount. As long as the tape is marked full it will not be available for DF/HSM reuse. You might also want to verify the settings for SETSYS TAPEDELETION. A bit of history here: In the early days, there was a concept of DF/HSM ownership of tape volumes. The concept still exists, in the fact the you must take a specific action to release a backup or migration volume. Dump tapes need no special action. If you *are* using DF/HSM pooling, these tapes should be undefined/ignored,... by your tape management system. Note: I am not advocating the DF/HSM pooling. I would much rather have the tape management system handle them via the EDM interface). HTH, snip I have noticed this strange oddity about HSM, we have several tapes with 0 files on them as shown by the TTOC. : VOLSER UNIT VOL REUSE VALID PCT VOLRACF PREV SUCC NAME TYPE CAPACITY BLKS VALID STATUS VOL VOL 030103 3590-1 ML2 0005521900 00 000 FULL NO *NONE* *NONE* NUM ONE ALT LIB STORAGE REC FILE VOL GROUP 001 *** *NONE* *NO LIB* **NO SG* * /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Defining OSA CHPid
What is your card model? Provide CCIN and/or FC (feature code). Not all OSA card can be ICC. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland Bingo. After I hit send, I looked at the PCHID assignments, the one that doesn't work is OSA Express2 GBe, not ICC capable :( Silly me, I thought all of them that we had were all the same Sorry for the trouble Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: MXI freeware?
That (G2) is the Cadillac paid-for version. Get the freebie from the CBT site. I believe 4.3 GenLevel 050627 is the latest. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Matan Cohen Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 10:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: MXI freeware? Hi , does 'MXI' isn't a freeware anymore? http://www.rocketsoftware.com/mainstar/products/mxi-g2 I can't seem to find any link for downloading it . -- __ best regards, matan cohen MF System Administrator. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: MXI freeware?
It is on the CBT tape. Regards, John K Matan Cohen of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu wrote on 07/16/2012 09:05:34 AM: Hi , does 'MXI' isn't a freeware anymore? http://www.rocketsoftware.com/mainstar/products/mxi-g2 I can't seem to find any link for downloading it . -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: MXI freeware?
Ok ... thank you both . On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.comwrote: The freeware MXI 4.3 is still on the www.cbttape.org site Note that it has not been updated for over 7 years and is getting evermore creaky as z/OS advances onwards (it very nearly broke completely for a recent release of z/OS and was rescued by an IBM PTF). It does not have support for EAV DASD or anything to do with 64-bit. Rocket Software supply the commercial replacement product for MXI 4.3 (called 'MXI Generation II' or MXI G2) and this is fully supported on all recent releases of software and hardware. We have put a lot of effort into MXI G2 to ensure that it is worth the price and we have added plug-ins for it for CICS, DB2, MQ, TCP/IP and DCOLLECT. Feel free to contact me for more information. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 77 Fourth Avenue . Suite 100 . Waltham . MA 02451-1468 . USA Tel: +1.781.684.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Matan Cohen Sent: 16 July 2012 15:06 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: MXI freeware? Hi , does 'MXI' isn't a freeware anymore? http://www.rocketsoftware.com/mainstar/products/mxi-g2 I can't seem to find any link for downloading it . -- __ best regards, matan cohen MF System Administrator. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- __ best regards, matan cohen MF System Administrator. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
Hi all, I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe. Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6). One is for production and the other for development. Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for years now, so far with very little progress... A few hours ago, we got a very strange message on the development machine: ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system functions are inoperative. An orderly shutdown of the entire system should be planned in order to minimize the possible impact of this failure. I thought I might be able to find something that might explain this in the syslog, but it showed nothing out of the ordinary. We tried IPLing but got the error message again. After a short (and rather panicked) discussion with the operations manager, and considering the documented instruction to shut down the system, we've decided to take down all LPARs. Naturally, they are very disturbed about this message, and the required system shutdown that followed. Any thoughts on what might be causing this? My client and I would highly appreciate any hints/tips on the root cause of this... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
Call your IBM Hardware Support ASAP Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 77 Fourth Avenue . Suite 100 . Waltham . MA 02451-1468 . USA Tel: +1.781.684.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of peter novack Sent: 16 July 2012 15:22 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E Hi all, I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe. Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6). One is for production and the other for development. Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for years now, so far with very little progress... A few hours ago, we got a very strange message on the development machine: ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system functions are inoperative. An orderly shutdown of the entire system should be planned in order to minimize the possible impact of this failure. I thought I might be able to find something that might explain this in the syslog, but it showed nothing out of the ordinary. We tried IPLing but got the error message again. After a short (and rather panicked) discussion with the operations manager, and considering the documented instruction to shut down the system, we've decided to take down all LPARs. Naturally, they are very disturbed about this message, and the required system shutdown that followed. Any thoughts on what might be causing this? My client and I would highly appreciate any hints/tips on the root cause of this... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
Back to basics: My pet peeve(s) (serious security concerns) are: 1) sites which do not allow use of the full set of special characters. My banks, Google and Facebook do, so it is not that hard. The more posibilities for each character, the more secure the password. 2) sites which limit length of userid and/or password. That's just plain dumb. I avoid such sites figuring that if they are that lazy/stupid, my information is certainly at risk -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: HSM ODDITY - NOT RELEASING EMPTY ML2 TAPES
Was anything else running in DFHSM when you issued the recycle? I don't think Recycle will work if PSM/SSM is running Lizette Hi Allan, I issued the command - HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) - but HSM didn't release the tapes. In this LPAR these tapes belong to a dedicated HSM pool. Would you hazard a guess as to why the tapes still show when I issue the LIST TTOC SELECT(BOTH) 020052 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020053 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020054 3590-1 ML2 0003932100 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020055 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020056 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020057 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020059 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* 020065 3590-1 ML2 0098302500 00 000 EMPTY NO *NONE* *NONE* -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
The acceptability of length limitations depends upon their values. Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are unacceptable today. A limitation to at most 2^15 - 1 = 32767 characters is, in my view at least, unobjectionable. Larger limitations like this one are often reflections of control-block overflow problems in some procedural language. These limitations can be circumvented, but the concatenation schemes that do so are very tedious. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Rmm extended dataset
Thanks Mike, after checking master or user status volume, I created my own customized report. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial
Hello, Is it possible to retrieve a tape dataset's volser via iggcsi? what's the type of a tape data set? Regards Victor -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
In of481ed85f.720f607e-on48257a3d.00242269-48257a3d.0026c...@us.ibm.com, on 07/16/2012 at 03:03 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com said: Yahoo! Mail -- the Web version -- *still* does not use HTTPS for most communications AFAIK. For example, if you're using a free wi-fi hotspot at a coffee shop, and you access Yahoo! Mail via their Web interface, practically everything except your login credentials flows in the clear. A fairly unsophisticated attacker can intercept that traffic and spoof your browser -- and access all your e-mail -- for up to 7 calendar days (the default timeout). Are you still using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or something more modern, e.g., Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
john_matt...@ea.epson.com (John Mattson) writes: Back to basics: My pet peeve(s) (serious security concerns) are: 1) sites which do not allow use of the full set of special characters. My banks, Google and Facebook do, so it is not that hard. The more posibilities for each character, the more secure the password. 2) sites which limit length of userid and/or password. That's just plain dumb. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#47 Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#53 Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek somebody in POK sent me a copy of Corporate Directive on Passwords late Friday and I redistributed. Over the weekend, somebody printed on 6670 (ibm copier3 with computer interface) on corporate letterhead paper on placed it in all the building corporate bulletin boards. Monday morning numerous people were caught ... even tho the date is clearly sunday and no real corporate directives are dated sunday. Corporate password rules from long ago and far away http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#52 OT Re: A beautiful morning in AFM. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#53 April Fools Day static, shared secrets were somewhat acceptable for authentication 40yrs ago when a person only had a few. corporate rules were put in place to create impossible to guess (therefor impossible to remember) shared secrets for authentication (with frequent changes) ... as if it was the only authentication the person has to deal with. With the proliferation of static, shared secrets paradigm as authentication mechanism (pins, passwords, etc) ... it isn't uncommon for an individual to have large scores or hundreds (of impossible to remember values). Furthermore, safe security practices require a unique shared secret for every unique security domain (as countermeasure to cross-domain attacks). misc. past posts discussing static shared-secret authentication http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subintegrity.html#secrets misc. past posts discussing internet/network based authentication using non-static data (countermeasure to harvesting and reply attacks) for kerberos http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#kerberos similar discussions for radius http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#radius ... aka simple registration of public key in lieu of password ... w/o the enormous complexity and points of failure introduced by digital certificates and PKIs ... misc. past posts discussing non-certificate based public key authentication http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#certless -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: The acceptability of length limitations depends upon their values. Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are unacceptable today. Passwords, yes; userids, meh -- I don't consider a userid to be a secure data point. A limitation to at most 2^15 - 1 = 32767 characters is, in my view at least, unobjectionable. Larger limitations like this one are often reflections of control-block overflow problems in some procedural language. These limitations can be circumvented, but the concatenation schemes that do so are very tedious. Seriously? You have 32K passwords? Or is that a Nah, nobody would ever want anything CLOSE to this, so let's use this and forget about it value? (I'm tempted to quote the 64K is enough thing, but this is clearly different, since no human would ever use keys that large!) Or are you thinking of machine-to-machine interactions, which might indeed use very long keys (though I don't want to have to deal with them when they break)? -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
Perhaps 8 character passwords should be replaced with 255 characters passphases (password phases) ? Steve Finch -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:00:33 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are unacceptable today. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Reconfigurable Storage - What's going on here?
Dang, you hit it. In parmlib it's set to 5120M, but in the lpar it's at 2048M, which is incorrect. Thanks for your assistance. Mark Jacobs On 07/16/12 08:10, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Did you check the value of RSU= in IEASYSxx? Kees. Mark Jacobsmark.jac...@custserv.com wrote in message news:5003fbd2.6000...@custserv.com... We swapped out a z10 to a z196 processor last weekend and on one of the lpars we're seeing something that I don't understand. The lpar in question has been defined with 6GB memory with 2GB in reserve, same as it was on the old z10. But when we IPL the zOS 1.12 image on the new processor we're seeing this; IEE174I 07.10.13 DISPLAY REAL STORAGE STATUS ONLINE-NOT RECONFIGURABLE 0M-3072M ONLINE-RECONFIGURABLE 3072M-6144M PENDING OFFLINE NONE 2048M IN OFFLINE STORAGE ELEMENT(S) 0M UNASSIGNED STORAGE STORAGE INCREMENT SIZE IS 256M Can anyone explain why three of the initial six GB is coming up as ONLINE-RECONFIGURABLE? RSU=OFFLINE will probably do what you want, and not need to be updated when you change LPAR storage definitions Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
The 32 kib bound has two rationales: 1) It is enough/overkill for passwords used by people and 2) larger values are problematic, produce control-block overflows, in some contexts. The first of these two is the more important. The practice of Increasing the supported length of something from 8 to 16 to 32 to . . . is a preposterous one that needs to be avoided. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
OK, here's the story so far: We've tried IPLing a few times, and later performed a power-on-reset, but still got the message a few hours later. Unfortunately, they do not have official IBM support (assuming they would even support such old machines), and I don't think that's about to change, given the ongoing migration to open systems. I still can't find anything interesting in the logs and I am running out of ideas. The only thing we could think about that might be related is a power failure we suffered a day before the message appeared for the first time. - Original Message - From: peter novack Sent: 07/16/12 06:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E Hi all, I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe. Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6). One is for production and the other for development. Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for years now, so far with very little progress... A few hours ago, we got a very strange message on the development machine: ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system functions are inoperative. An orderly shutdown of the entire system should be planned in order to minimize the possible impact of this failure. I thought I might be able to find something that might explain this in the syslog, but it showed nothing out of the ordinary. We tried IPLing but got the error message again. After a short (and rather panicked) discussion with the operations manager, and considering the documented instruction to shut down the system, we've decided to take down all LPARs. Naturally, they are ve ry disturbed about this message, and the required system shutdown that followed. Any thoughts on what might be causing this? My client and I would highly appreciate any hints/tips on the root cause of this... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
REMINDER: Call for Session Chairs for EWCP at SHARE in Anaheim CA
Hello SHARE and EWCP members - The SHARE conference in Anaheim, CA is approaching quickly. There are many new sessions with a lot of good information waiting to be shared. It will be held at the Marriott Hotel, August 5th through August 10th, 2012. The Enterprise Wide Capacity and Performance (EWCP) Project has quite a program of sessions to offer and we are currently looking for volunteers to be Session Chairs. If you are interested in being an active participant and would be willing to chair sessions for us, please contact Mary Astley at mailto:ast...@us.ibm.com ast...@us.ibm.com or me, at the address below. See you in Anaheim! Norman Hollander, Project Manager EWCP Enterprise-Wide Capacity and Performance Project Office: +1 760-992-5068 eMail:znor...@desertwiz.biz Below are the currently scheduled Sessions for Anaheim: Date Time Room Speaker # Title Chairperson Mon March 12 8:00 AM 0001 Share General Session 9:30 AM 0002 System z Technical Keynote 11:00 AM Salon J Muench 11608 RMF: The Latest and Greatest 12 noon Lunch 1:30 PM Plat 1 Walsh/Hollander 11463 EWCP Project Opening and ATS z/OS Performance Hot Topics 3:00 PM Salon J Sinram 11609 Workload Management Update for z/OS 1.13 and 1.12 4:30 PM Salon J Muench 11613 Manage Your Workloads and Performance with z/OSMF 6:00 PM SHARE Technology Exchange (STE) Tue March 13 8:00 AM 0003 Keynote 9:30 AM Salon J Burg 11599 zPCR Capacity Sizing Lab - Part 1, Introduction and Overview 11:00 AM OC 2/3 Burg/Snyder 11497 zPCR Capacity Sizing Lab - Part 2, Hands-on Lab 11:00 AM Salon J Astley 11604 Introduction to SMF and RMF Data Collection 12 noon Lunch 1:30 PM Plat 5 Watson 11309 The many CPU fields of SMF 3:00 PM Salon J Sinram 11612 Workload Management of Transactional Workloads 4:30 PM Salon J Snyder 11605 z/OS Workload Manager: What Are You Thinking? 6:00 PM SHARE Technology Exchange (STE) Wed March 14 8:00 AM Salon J Enrico 11500 Introduction to WLM Management of CICS and IMS Workloads 9:30 AM Salon E/F Temel 11491 Analyzing/Monitoring Performance of z/OS I/O Operations: DASD and Tape - Performance View 11:00 AM Salon E/F Walsh 11598 System z Capacity Planning: Where the Mistakes Are (Long Session) 11:30 AM SHARE Technology Exchange (STE) 12 noon Lunch 1:30 PM Salon E/F Woods 11479 Predictive Analytics and IT Service Management 3:00 PM Salon J Ukelson 11558 Behavioral Analysis Predictive Analytics meet SLA's, Prevent Problems, and Reduce Costs in a Mainframe Production Environment 4:30 PM Salon J Burg 11600 CPU MF - 2012 Update and WSC Experiences 6:00 PM Salon J Bonnett 11524 The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Infrastructure on System z and zEnterprise 7:15 PM 11468 EWCP Project Dinner Thu March 15 8:00 AM Salon J Anderson 11601 zEnterprise eXposed! Part 1 of 2: Introduction to zEnterprise Performance Management 9:30 AM Salon J Astley/Snyder 11603 zEnterprise eXposed! Part 2 of 2: Experiences with the zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager 11:00 AM Salon J Temel 11365 Analyzing/Measuring/Monitoring Memory Usage and Understanding z/OS Memory Management: Performance View 12 noon Lunch 1:30 PM Salon J Mavashev 11979 Ensuring Business-Critical Apps are Performing in the Cloud 3:00 PM Salon J Johnson 11948 360 Degree Capacity Management: Get All the Angles Covered 4:30 PM Salon J Bonnett 11523 Forecasting Performance Metrics using the IBM Tivoli Performance Analyzer 6:00 PM MVS Program Closing and Ask the Experts Fri March 16 8:00 AM 11465 EWCP Project Closing 8:00 AM Salon J Quinn 11544 CA SYSVIEW r13.5 Update 12 noon End of Conference . -- For
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe. Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6). One is for production and the other for development. Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for years now, so far with very little progress... A few hours ago, we got a very strange message on the development machine: ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system functions are inoperative. An orderly shutdown of the entire system should be planned in order to minimize the possible impact of this failure. I thought I might be able to find something that might explain this in the syslog, but it showed nothing out of the ordinary. We tried IPLing but got the error message again. After a short (and rather panicked) discussion with the operations manager, and considering the documented instruction to shut down the system, we've decided to take down all LPARs. Naturally, they are very disturbed about this message, and the required system shutdown that followed. Any thoughts on what might be causing this? My client and I would highly appreciate any hints/tips on the root cause of this... z/OS issues this message in 2 cases: 1. The machine has presented a Service Processor Damage machine check. 2. The machine has presented a state change event which indicates an unrecoverable Service Processor failure. Service Processor is also known as the SE or Support Element. Further investigation would need to be done by your hardware support team. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
IBM will come out and perform service for time and the cost of parts even without a service contract. You have two choices: 1) Pay IBM or 2) accelerate your migration you that you're off the z900 before it totally craps out. This may sound harsh but those are your choices. Bob Shannon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
There are companies out there that sell and service used mainframes. If you can't get the part replaced, then a used mainframe could be purchased. With a new minimum z114 starting at $75,000, z9 or z10 should be a bit cheaper. On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:42 PM, peter novack peter.nov...@gmx.com wrote: OK, here's the story so far: We've tried IPLing a few times, and later performed a power-on-reset, but still got the message a few hours later. Unfortunately, they do not have official IBM support (assuming they would even support such old machines), and I don't think that's about to change, given the ongoing migration to open systems. I still can't find anything interesting in the logs and I am running out of ideas. The only thing we could think about that might be related is a power failure we suffered a day before the message appeared for the first time. - Original Message - From: peter novack Sent: 07/16/12 06:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E Hi all, I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe. Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6). One is for production and the other for development. Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for years now, so far with very little progress... A few hours ago, we got a very strange message on the development machine: ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system functions are inoperative. An orderly shutdown of the entire system should be planned in order to minimize the possible impact of this failure. I thought I might be able to find something that might explain this in the syslog, but it showed nothing out of the ordinary. We tried IPLing but got the error message again. After a short (and rather panicked) discussion with the operations manager, and considering the documented instruction to shut down the system, we've decided to take down all LPARs. Naturally, they are ve ry disturbed about this message, and the required system shutdown that followed. Any thoughts on what might be causing this? My client and I would highly appreciate any hints/tips on the root cause of this... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
this is exactly why I did not respond another shop getting off MF but in mean time stopped paying for HW SW support etc I guess its time and materials From: Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 07/16/2012 02:46 PM Subject:Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sounds like their management has a problem then. Mark Jacobs On 07/16/12 14:42, peter novack wrote: OK, here's the story so far: We've tried IPLing a few times, and later performed a power-on-reset, but still got the message a few hours later. Unfortunately, they do not have official IBM support (assuming they would even support such old machines), and I don't think that's about to change, given the ongoing migration to open systems. I still can't find anything interesting in the logs and I am running out of ideas. The only thing we could think about that might be related is a power failure we suffered a day before the message appeared for the first time. - Original Message - From: peter novack Sent: 07/16/12 06:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E Hi all, I work as a consultant in a small installation in Eastern Europe. Their main business activity runs on a couple of Z900 machines (z/OS 1.6). One is for production and the other for development. Like many organizations, they've been trying to get rid of the Mainframe for years now, so far with very little progress... A few hours ago, we got a very strange message on the development machine: ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system functions are inoperative. An orderly shutdown of the entire system should be planned in order to minimize the possible impact of this failure. I thought I might be able to find something that might explain this in the syslog, but it showed nothing out of the ordinary. We tried IPLing but got the error message again. After a short (and rather panicked) discussion with the operations manager, and considering the documented instruction to shut down the system, we've decided to take down all LPARs. Naturally, they are ve ry disturbed about this message, and the required system shutdown that followed. Any thoughts on what might be causing this? My client and I would highly appreciate any hints/tips on the root cause of this... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL The Doctor: You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better? Young Amy: Yes. The Doctor: Everything's going to be fine. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
Explanation: The Service Processor has malfunctioned and MVS cannot communicate with it. Certain MVS functions are inoperative, including CONFIG, some D M, and some operator-communication facilities. Hardware error logging is also inoperative. MVS might remain functional for an indeterminate period of time, but an attempt to use any of the above functions or any other functions that use the Service Processor can result in a system hang or outage. System Action: The operating system continues running in degraded mode to allow for an orderly shutdown. System Programmer Response: If MVS is still responding to commands, plan an orderly shutdown of the system in accordance with the procedures of your installation. Contact hardware support. Which part of 'Contact hardware support' is not clear? Sev-CRIT grasshopper... In a message dated 7/16/2012 1:48:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time, mark.jac...@custserv.com writes: Sounds like their management has a problem then. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system functions are inoperative. Service Processor is also known as the SE or Support Element. Further investigation would need to be done by your hardware support team. Have you tried to reboot the support Element? There should be a spare/backup SE also. Maybe they just didn't get rebooted after your power outage. Cliff McNeill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
Forgot to mention that the Service Elements are the laptop computers inside the covers of the z900. Cliff McNeill Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:07:50 -0500 From: sy...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system functions are inoperative. Service Processor is also known as the SE or Support Element. Further investigation would need to be done by your hardware support team. Have you tried to reboot the support Element? There should be a spare/backup SE also. Maybe they just didn't get rebooted after your power outage. Cliff McNeill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial
Victor, Yes, you can retrieve a tape dataset's volser(s) using IGGCSI. I am not positive that I know what you mean by the type of the tape dataset. If it is the entry type, that would be NON-VSAM. A good place to start is the provided samples. I started with IGGCSIRX, the REXX one. It lists the entry type and the first 3 volsers for each DSN found that matches the DNS pattern provided. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 07/16/2012 11:20:46 AM: From: Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 07/16/2012 11:21 AM Subject: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Hello, Is it possible to retrieve a tape dataset's volser via iggcsi? what's the type of a tape data set? Regards Victor -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
You mandate any policy you want, try enforcing password rules Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 16, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Finch, Steve (ES - Mainframe) steve.fi...@hp.com wrote: Perhaps 8 character passwords should be replaced with 255 characters passphases (password phases) ? Steve Finch -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:00:33 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are unacceptable today. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: We have begun to see fallout. Fortunately, it's amateurish so far. This moring my wife received an email, a long litany of woe and injuries, allegedly from an old friend and college classmate. She wanted us to send money to her in Spain. Called, it turned out that she was in good health at home in Wellesley. She thanked Kate for her concern, and I emailed her with some advice on how to recover from having her email accounts hacked. I've heard of folks who've fallen for this. What I can't imagine is the confluence of someone who I know well enough to blindly send money to AND think I'd be high enough on their list of folks to email AND wouldn't know that they were overseas already AND don't have someone I'd call immediately to ask Have you heard from Joe?. Who has people in that category?! Mind you, if someone got hacked through browser spoofing in an Internet cafe *while overseas*, it would be a lot more plausible. The fact that this isn't the normal MO suggests that the much-vaunted browser spoofing isn't nearly as easy as folks make it sound... -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
Yep. Could be a bad power supply in Laptop, bad cable between Laptop and z900, hard drive failure. No indication that there's anything wrong with z900 at all(as of yet).. In a message dated 7/16/2012 3:53:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time, sy...@hotmail.com writes: Service Elements are the laptop computers inside the covers of the z900 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) writes: I've heard of folks who've fallen for this. What I can't imagine is the confluence of someone who I know well enough to blindly send money to AND think I'd be high enough on their list of folks to email AND wouldn't know that they were overseas already AND don't have someone I'd call immediately to ask Have you heard from Joe?. Who has people in that category?! Mind you, if someone got hacked through browser spoofing in an Internet cafe *while overseas*, it would be a lot more plausible. The fact that this isn't the normal MO suggests that the much-vaunted browser spoofing isn't nearly as easy as folks make it sound... re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#47 Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#53 Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#54 Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek one of the issues is whether there is better low-hanging fruit 95-96 time-period ... there were industry presentations by dial-up consumer online banking regarding motivation for moving to the internet (top of the list was enormous consumer support costs for serial-port dial-up modems ... being able to offload to ISPs). At the same time, the dial-up commerical/cash-management online banking operations were saying that they would *NEVER* move to the internet because of a long list of security vulnerabilities (nearly all of which have since been seen). the commercial operations eventually started moving to the internet (anyway ... possibly loss of institutional knowledge in the industry) and started seeing all the vulnerabilities that had been predicted. some of this has shown up recently in court cases where business operations have lost hundreds of thousands or millions from their accounts in such attacks ... and they are suing the financial institutions for the loss on the grounds of providing inadequate security. recent posts in (linkedin) Financial Crime Risk, Fraud and Security discussions: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#18 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#32 Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#0 Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#8 Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security related news URL references: Zeus/SpyEye 'Automatic Transfer' Module Masks Online Banking Theft; Automated attack bypasses two-factor authentication http://www.darkreading.com/authentication/167901072/security/attacks-breaches/240002267/zeus-spyeye-automatic-transfer-module-masks-online-banking-theft Cyber crooks evading advanced bank security to transfer funds http://www.scmagazine.com/cyber-crooks-evading-advanced-bank-security-to-transfer-funds/article/246227/ Exclusive: Online bank-theft software grows more sophisticated http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-online-bank-theft-software-grows-more-sophisticated-080445057--sector.html Online bank-theft software grows more sophisticated http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-online-banktheft-software-grows-more-sophisticated-20120618,0,278609.story Fake Android antivirus app likely linked to Zeus banking Trojan, researchers say; Cybercriminals are distributing a mobile component of the Zeus banking Trojan as an Android security application, Kaspersky experts said http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/061912-fake-android-antivirus-app-likely-260331.html Federal appeal court raps bank over shoddy online security http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/070512-federal-appeal-court-raps-bank-260672.html ENISA Warns Banks: Assume All PCs Are Infected http://news.softpedia.com/news/ENISA-Warns-Banks-Assume-All-PCs-Are-Infected-279470.shtml Court Slams Bank For Ignoring Zeus Attack http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/240003172 Zeus: How to Fight Back; Sophisticated Trojan Demands New Game Plan http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/zeus-how-to-fight-back-i-1592?rf=2012-07-06-eb Cybercrooks preying on small businesses http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/06/cybercrooks-preying-on-small-businesses/ -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E
Yep, One big concern I see in this at this point is if they shut the LPARs down and the SE isn't talking to the CEC, how do they bring them back up? Hopefully it is something simple like a bad power supply on one of the 2 laptops and they can either fairly quickly fix it or use the alternate. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 4:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E Yep. Could be a bad power supply in Laptop, bad cable between Laptop and z900, hard drive failure. No indication that there's anything wrong with z900 at all(as of yet).. In a message dated 7/16/2012 3:53:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time, sy...@hotmail.com writes: Service Elements are the laptop computers inside the covers of the z900 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information contained in this e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information and is intended for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and that you will be held responsible for any such unauthorized activity, including liability for any resulting damages. As appropriate, such incident(s) may also be reported to law enforcement. If you received this e-mail in error, please reply to sender and destroy or delete the message and any attachments. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler?
Does anyone know the answer to this? I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I define and store it like this void __cdecl (*entryPoint)(const char *); entryPoint = (void (__cdecl *)(const char *))(myVoidStar); printf(entryPoint is %p\n, entryPoint); Printf prints the correct address (DFFD058, FWIW) so I am good so far. I then call it with (entryPoint)(record); and I end up S0C6ing out in the weeds at 27F5023B. Here is the pseudo-assembler from the C++ compiler. 4400 C1AC000114 | EX r0,HOOK..STMT 5870 D0C0000114 | Lr7,record(,r13,192) 5810 D0C8000114 | Lr1,#CEECAACRENT_2(, 5880 35DA000114 | Lr8,=Q(entryPoint)(, 4118 1000000114 | LA r1,=Q(entryPoint)(r 5810 1000000114 | Lr1,entryPoint(,r1,0 58F0 1008000114 | Lr15,EPA_WSA(,r1,8 5800 100C000114 | Lr0,EPA_WSA(,r1,12 5000 C1F4000114 | ST r0,_CEECAA_(,r12,50 4110 D098000114 | LA r1,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 5070 D098000114 | ST r7,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 4400 C1C0000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLBGN 0DEF 000114 | BASR r14,r15 4400 C1C4000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLRET Does anyone know what I should be declaring or doing differently? (If all else fails I will just write a stub in assembler to do this. I know how to L 15 BALR 14,15 in assembler g.) Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler?
I suggest investigating the CALLBACKANY compiler option. On 17/07/2012, at 8:13 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Does anyone know the answer to this? I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I define and store it like this void __cdecl (*entryPoint)(const char *); entryPoint = (void (__cdecl *)(const char *))(myVoidStar); printf(entryPoint is %p\n, entryPoint); Printf prints the correct address (DFFD058, FWIW) so I am good so far. I then call it with (entryPoint)(record); and I end up S0C6ing out in the weeds at 27F5023B. Here is the pseudo-assembler from the C++ compiler. 4400 C1AC000114 | EX r0,HOOK..STMT 5870 D0C0000114 | Lr7,record(,r13,192) 5810 D0C8000114 | Lr1,#CEECAACRENT_2(, 5880 35DA000114 | Lr8,=Q(entryPoint)(, 4118 1000000114 | LA r1,=Q(entryPoint)(r 5810 1000000114 | Lr1,entryPoint(,r1,0 58F0 1008000114 | Lr15,EPA_WSA(,r1,8 5800 100C000114 | Lr0,EPA_WSA(,r1,12 5000 C1F4000114 | ST r0,_CEECAA_(,r12,50 4110 D098000114 | LA r1,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 5070 D098000114 | ST r7,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 4400 C1C0000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLBGN 0DEF 000114 | BASR r14,r15 4400 C1C4000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLRET Does anyone know what I should be declaring or doing differently? (If all else fails I will just write a stub in assembler to do this. I know how to L 15 BALR 14,15 in assembler g.) Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler?
Why the __cdecl instead of extern OS? On 17/07/2012, at 8:34 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Wow! Fast answer, and looked very promising, but no change in behavior. Added DLL(CBA) to my options. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 5:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler? I suggest investigating the CALLBACKANY compiler option. On 17/07/2012, at 8:13 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Does anyone know the answer to this? I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I define and store it like this void __cdecl (*entryPoint)(const char *); entryPoint = (void (__cdecl *)(const char *))(myVoidStar); printf(entryPoint is %p\n, entryPoint); Printf prints the correct address (DFFD058, FWIW) so I am good so far. I then call it with (entryPoint)(record); and I end up S0C6ing out in the weeds at 27F5023B. Here is the pseudo-assembler from the C++ compiler. 4400 C1AC000114 | EX r0,HOOK..STMT 5870 D0C0000114 | Lr7,record(,r13,192) 5810 D0C8000114 | Lr1,#CEECAACRENT_2(, 5880 35DA000114 | Lr8,=Q(entryPoint)(, 4118 1000000114 | LA r1,=Q(entryPoint)(r 5810 1000000114 | Lr1,entryPoint(,r1,0 58F0 1008000114 | Lr15,EPA_WSA(,r1,8 5800 100C000114 | Lr0,EPA_WSA(,r1,12 5000 C1F4000114 | ST r0,_CEECAA_(,r12,50 4110 D098000114 | LA r1,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 5070 D098000114 | ST r7,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 4400 C1C0000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLBGN 0DEF 000114 | BASR r14,r15 4400 C1C4000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLRET Does anyone know what I should be declaring or doing differently? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:31:07 -0400, zMan wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, John Gilmore wrote: Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are unacceptable today. Passwords, yes; userids, meh -- I don't consider a userid to be a secure data point. It's not a matter of security; rather that many IT departments nowadays have a standard of 8-character userids. IBM is a tail that can no longer wag that dog; the CIO can cite refusal to comply with corporate standards as one more strike against z/OS in a purchase decision. And ID administration must be via LDAP from the corporate standard Linux server. There are 3rd party products that enable this; none AFAIK for 8-character userids. Hmm... what's the length limit of aliases in USERIDALIASTABLE? Is USERIDALIASTABLE processed for connections to FTP server, or only for logins? Does it affect the output of getpwuid()? Etc.? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/bpxzb2c0/3.7.4.5 -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler?
1. If I code the declaration as extern C void (*entryPoint)(const SMFrecd *); (did not try OS but it would have the same problem I think) then that is the declaration of an external function, not the definition of a pointer, right? In any event I get unresolved extern's on entryPoint at link time. There is no such syntax, I believe, as just OS without the extern. 2. It won't allow extern C (and again, I think extern OS would be the same) in the cast. It says all linkage declarations must be at the module level or something like that. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 6:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler? Why the __cdecl instead of extern OS? On 17/07/2012, at 8:34 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Wow! Fast answer, and looked very promising, but no change in behavior. Added DLL(CBA) to my options. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 5:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler? I suggest investigating the CALLBACKANY compiler option. On 17/07/2012, at 8:13 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Does anyone know the answer to this? I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I define and store it like this void __cdecl (*entryPoint)(const char *); entryPoint = (void (__cdecl *)(const char *))(myVoidStar); printf(entryPoint is %p\n, entryPoint); Printf prints the correct address (DFFD058, FWIW) so I am good so far. I then call it with (entryPoint)(record); and I end up S0C6ing out in the weeds at 27F5023B. Here is the pseudo-assembler from the C++ compiler. 4400 C1AC000114 | EX r0,HOOK..STMT 5870 D0C0000114 | Lr7,record(,r13,192) 5810 D0C8000114 | Lr1,#CEECAACRENT_2(, 5880 35DA000114 | Lr8,=Q(entryPoint)(, 4118 1000000114 | LA r1,=Q(entryPoint)(r 5810 1000000114 | Lr1,entryPoint(,r1,0 58F0 1008000114 | Lr15,EPA_WSA(,r1,8 5800 100C000114 | Lr0,EPA_WSA(,r1,12 5000 C1F4000114 | ST r0,_CEECAA_(,r12,50 4110 D098000114 | LA r1,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 5070 D098000114 | ST r7,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 4400 C1C0000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLBGN 0DEF 000114 | BASR r14,r15 4400 C1C4000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLRET Does anyone know what I should be declaring or doing differently? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial
For a non-vsam dataset, how can I determine if it is a dasd dataset or a tape dataset? What's the criteria to check if a dataset reside on tape? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler?
Another way of saying what I am trying to do is what you do if you are calling from C++ any MVS callable service or something like that using the pointer somewhere off of the CVT. Looking at the header file for CSRSI it looks like perhaps you can't do it from C++. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 5:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler? Does anyone know the answer to this? I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I define and store it like this void __cdecl (*entryPoint)(const char *); entryPoint = (void (__cdecl *)(const char *))(myVoidStar); printf(entryPoint is %p\n, entryPoint); Printf prints the correct address (DFFD058, FWIW) so I am good so far. I then call it with (entryPoint)(record); and I end up S0C6ing out in the weeds at 27F5023B. Here is the pseudo-assembler from the C++ compiler. 4400 C1AC000114 | EX r0,HOOK..STMT 5870 D0C0000114 | Lr7,record(,r13,192) 5810 D0C8000114 | Lr1,#CEECAACRENT_2(, 5880 35DA000114 | Lr8,=Q(entryPoint)(, 4118 1000000114 | LA r1,=Q(entryPoint)(r 5810 1000000114 | Lr1,entryPoint(,r1,0 58F0 1008000114 | Lr15,EPA_WSA(,r1,8 5800 100C000114 | Lr0,EPA_WSA(,r1,12 5000 C1F4000114 | ST r0,_CEECAA_(,r12,50 4110 D098000114 | LA r1,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 5070 D098000114 | ST r7,#MX_TEMP2(,r13,1 4400 C1C0000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLBGN 0DEF 000114 | BASR r14,r15 4400 C1C4000114 | EX r0,HOOK..CALLRET Does anyone know what I should be declaring or doing differently? (If all else fails I will just write a stub in assembler to do this. I know how to L 15 BALR 14,15 in assembler g.) Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler?
David, thanks, will try again tomorrow. Does it perhaps want to factor differently? Perhaps something more like (*extern OS entryPoint)(const char *); or something? Otherwise aren't you saying that the pointer itself is extern? Don't let me confuse the issue -- it is not CSRSI that I am calling. Header for CSRSI is in SYS1.SAMPLIB somewhere but is printed in the callable services manual. They have something they call csrsi_byaddr that looks exactly like what I am trying to accomplish but it is bracketed with #ifndef __cplusplus which is what leads me to think that perhaps this linkage is not supported for C++. No, have not taken the XPLINK leap. One of these days. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 7:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler? extern OS (*entryPoint)(const char *) is the correct declaration for C++. I have called OS linkage functions from the CVT in C++ without problems. Where is the header file for CSRSI? Are you XPLINK? On 17/07/2012 10:10 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Another way of saying what I am trying to do is what you do if you are calling from C++ any MVS callable service or something like that using the pointer somewhere off of the CVT. Looking at the header file for CSRSI it looks like perhaps you can't do it from C++. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 5:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: How call from C++ thru function pointer to assembler? Does anyone know the answer to this? I have an assembler function whose address I know at run-time in C++. I define and store it like this void __cdecl (*entryPoint)(const char *); entryPoint = (void (__cdecl *)(const char *))(myVoidStar); printf(entryPoint is %p\n, entryPoint); Printf prints the correct address (DFFD058, FWIW) so I am good so far. I then call it with (entryPoint)(record); and I end up S0C6ing out in the weeds at 27F5023B. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial
Victor, Try a 'google rexx iggcsi' , there several samples and one of the fields was tape datasets Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 16, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn wrote: For a non-vsam dataset, how can I determine if it is a dasd dataset or a tape dataset? What's the criteria to check if a dataset reside on tape? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: OT: I received a purported .doc file which appears to be a zip file full ...
I saw on the 10 o'clock news that MS is offering Cloud based Office 2013 for trial. Not brave enough to try it on my PC(old). I searched a little but couldn't find a MS link, but found this. _http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/_ (http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/) Don't know if it's the real magilla or VOGON trojan... In a message dated 7/16/2012 8:12:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time, k...@dovetail.com writes: a version of MS Word that supports it, you can load it using the free OpenOffice / LibreOffice and then save as the -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
Paul Gilmartin writes: It's not a matter of security; rather that many IT departments nowadays have a standard of 8-character userids. IBM is a tail that can no longer wag that dog; the CIO can cite refusal to comply with corporate standards as one more strike against z/OS in a purchase decision. You're referring to TSO/E only, which has a 7 character user ID limitation. Yes, if you're shopping for TSO/E, maybe that's a strike against TSO/E. Also (consequently?) if you're shopping for a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor military fighter aircraft. Its design support and parts database is limited to 7 character user IDs, too: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/aeronautics/materialmanagement/scm-engineering/scm-emap.html Fact: Every z/OS licensee receives Tivoli Directory Server for z/OS with LDAP. There's no such limit there, and, like TSO/E, it's part of base z/OS. If you want N-character user IDs (N7), go for it. Enjoy. Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek
Shmuel Metz asks: Are you still using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or something more modern, e.g., Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)? Of course I use the latter, but a few points: 1. Wi-fi encryption only handles the hop between your wireless device and the wireless router/access point. Beyond that almost everything Yahoo! Mail's Web UI transmits (and receives) is in the clear via HTTP not HTTPS. 2. I specifically mentioned coffee shops. Most coffee shops, hotels, etc. still don't use encrypted wi-fi.(*) 3. The Internet is a public, untrusted network. It is not a private, secured network. Everything you send and receive via Yahoo! Mail's Web UI flows in the clear with the exception of your login credentials which are checked (by default) only once every 7 days. Anybody between you and Yahoo! can intercept that unencrypted traffic -- the hotel, the coffee shop, the ISPs, governments, an employer, etc., etc. Spammers are already sifting through that unencrypted data to capture e-mail addresses and other information. Your inbox, every e-mail you read, every e-mail you write, and your entire address book are all wide open to anyone who can intercept the Web UI network traffic at any point. 4. It's a big problem when practically everybody in the security community criticizes Yahoo! for their intransigence in fixing the problem. It's an even bigger problem when my own mother suffered from Yahoo's decade plus long failure to turn on HTTPS. (*) It would certainly help if the wi-fi industry adopted a Public WPA2 (a.k.a. coffee shop) addition to their standards, requiring adoption and compliance among manufacturers. Such an amendment would be similar to HTTPS, allowing simple walk up encryption of wi-fi connections. Hopefully it would also have reputation-based client evaluation of wi-fi hotspots to reduce spoofing risk. Oddly, wi-fi doesn't yet have a great, easy-to-use security solution for the coffee shop/hotel scenarios where wi-fi is so popular. Maybe Apple will figure this out. Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
