Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
The total value (market capitalization) of Yahoo has steadily declined over the past several years. Maybe they could try something different, like protecting their users' mailboxes and address books (while they deliver ads to them). Yahoo's fundamental business problem is that they've been losing

Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Brown, Larry - RD, St. Louis, MO
Hello, we have a job that was previously using Innovation's IAM file access method. The file is over 6 million records. The job runs twice yearly and usually takes an hour or less to complete. The product was removed to save on SW costs, and the file was converted to VSAM. The programmer

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 886132E644ECAE808EED6EEFA317@graham, on 07/17/2012 at 11:15 AM, Graham Hobbs gho...@cdpwise.net said: When someone uses the underscores between some words .. what does that mean? Underscore. ITYM when somebody uses underscore *around* a word. In that case it means the same as

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofae475794.d0761284-on48257a3e.001cb9f7-48257a3e.001fa...@us.ibm.com, on 07/17/2012 at 01:45 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com said: Most coffee shops, hotels, etc. still don't use encrypted wi-fi. Bletch! I'd better check what my local library uses, if anything. 3. The

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9b26bc6a6df52d4483dd73b1fe7b4b0658b83d6...@uspho-mxvs07.amer.thermo.com, on 07/18/2012 at 10:37 AM, Hardee, Chuck chuck.har...@thermofisher.com said: Uh, I don't think so. You're thinking CLIST not REXX. I doubt it. What he wrote was 'The problem is that ISPF/ISREDIT evaluates/substitutes

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:19:28 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote: There is no need to send edit commands via ISPEXEC anyway:-) What was the rationale for making the initial host command environment when an edit macro is entered TSO rather than the obvious ISREDIT? Was it merely that the ISPF

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread John Mattson
Shmuel ! A previous reply also suggested SCAN OFF. I tried it, just tried it again, and it makes no difference. Please look at the example I sent before and try it yourself. From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 07/19/2012 05:26 AM

Re: DFSORT option NOBLKSET?

2012-07-19 Thread Scott McLeod
Dave, The application is CIMS. Are there any users of CIMS out there who could shed some light on why VLSHRT is required? Do you mean CIMS Mainframe, which IBM rebranded as TDSz Usage and Accounting Collector (UAC)? If so, you might contact me off-list for specific application questions.

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-19 Thread McKown, John
Use a TOR connection. With that, you have a SSL/TLS encoded connection from your PC to a local TOR router. And it bounces around in the TOR network until it exits for a TOR end point to then go to the actual site you want. The site doesn't know where you came from initially because it only sees

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread John Mattson
Shmuel ! I sent my original source, and it was REXX. Having a few spare moments, I quickly converted the REXX to CLIST and all of the FIND's worked as a clist. Oddly, they work with or withOUT SCAN OFF. Whether the problem belongs to ISPF, REXX, or both is not my problem. These commands

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread Tom Ambros
That's strange, they work fine as Rexx for me: JCL: Note line 4 //REMOTE DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTEPDQR.(SYSTEM) //REMOTE DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTEPDQR.(SYSTEM) //REMOTE DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MSYS.UCMD.REMOTEPDQR(SYSTEM) //* TEST LINE TO BE X ALL'ED AND NOT FOUND IN FIND ALLS

Re: BDAM READ with BLKREF of X'0'

2012-07-19 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Thomas David Rivers wrote: I'm debugging a program (no source), and trying to figure out what BDAM does when the READ macro is invoked without a BLKREF relative-block-address specified. This is an RBA-type BDAM, and I'm seeing a READ where the BLKREF in the DECB is simply X'0'. Binyamin

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Yifat Oren
Hi, Like others have suggested BLSR or SMB ACCBIAS=DO is the way to go if the VSAM is accessed in a non-sequential manner (which seems to be the case, giving the IAM vs. VSAM performance difference you've encountered). Also, from the LISTCAT, if I read it correctly, many records seem to be

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
From original post, the job in question is only reading the file. Any updates are done elsewhere, which at this point haven't yet been described as a performance issue. BLSR Deferred writes could be useful in other cases (not here) when a large number of updates are being done in a batch job,

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Brown, Larry - RD, St. Louis, MO
Yes, the updates are done outside this job. I've received a lot of good tips from the list. Thank you very much everyone. Apparently, BLSR is not activated, we get subsys not found message when we try that. I've asked our systems folks to verify that and why not if that is the case. But,

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread John Mattson
And the grand prize goes to Tom Ambros Yes, use DOUBLE AMPERSANDS in REXX and the FINDs work properly. So simple when we finally see it. Many thanks to everyone. From: Tom Ambros thomas_amb...@keybank.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 07/19/2012 07:58 AM Subject:

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:12:54 -0700, John Mattson wrote: And the grand prize goes to Tom Ambros Yes, use DOUBLE AMPERSANDS in REXX and the FINDs work properly. So simple when we finally see it. Many thanks to everyone. So is the behavior of EDIT different when identical command strings are

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread Tom Ambros
Different in CLIST or Rexx? Not according to the documentation. From the Edit and Edit Macros doc: Section 3.3.80 SCAN--Set Command Scan Mode Examples To set a line whose number is in variable LNUM to: SYSDATE is a CLIST built-in function set scan mode off and issue the

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
If the record count given is accurate (6.7M) and if the average record length given (80) is realistic, then on the average a full data CI should be able to hold around 51 records, a 3390 track around 612 records, and the full data portion fit in as few as 11,062 tracks, which is 5.6% of the

Re: End of Support for Encryption Key Manager (EKM)

2012-07-19 Thread Raja Mohan
not sure if you had an updated response for this, though there is no EOS announcement IBM has a note regarding their strategic direction and recommending to not use EKM for new encryptions @ following URL EKM should no longer be downloaded for new tape encryption installations.

Re: End of Support for Encryption Key Manager (EKM)

2012-07-19 Thread Mark Jacobs
AFAIK that's old news. We're still running EKM and haven't found a compelling reason to migrate to ISKLM. As long as Java SDK 6.0 is supported, and we don't get any new hardware that requires the priced product we're staying on EKM, Mark Jacobs On 07/19/12 14:08, Raja Mohan wrote: not sure

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Brown, Larry - RD, St. Louis, MO
Wow, the programmer dropped the bufsp parm, and his run time actually was better than before with IAM - under an hour. Again, many thanks to all who replied. If any of you are ever in St. Louis, let me know, and I'll buy you a cold adult beverage. Larry Brown Rural Development U.S.

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread McKown, John
cold adult beverage. Hum, 18 year old iced tea? Or perhaps you meant Macallan 18. Very generous of you: $139.99 for 750 ml at Amazon. Of course, 18 is in the U.S. More adult would be 21, but that's $235.99 for 750 ml. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group

Re: BDAM READ with BLKREF of X'0'

2012-07-19 Thread Binyamin Dissen
SImple READ DI - no key. I would think that you would have to give a starting block address for a direct read. But it has been many years since I wrote BDAM code. On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:00:08 -0400 Thomas David Rivers riv...@dignus.com wrote: :Thomas David Rivers wrote: : : I'm debugging a

Re: Problem Going to VSAM from IAM

2012-07-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Prompted a quick look in manual which reveals A valid BUFSP specification generally overrides any BUFND or BUFNI specification, and then of course the default rules for how buffers are apportioned to Index and Data from BUFSP space is rarely what you want, as VSAM may not have enough info at

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-19 Thread Dave Barry
Tom, Thanks for catching my mistake. I read too quickly. Yes, the SRM constants aren't speed ratings at all. The part that is relevant is this: the ratio of MIPS per CP is the best way for Charles to estimate the CPU time of his job on the new processor. As another lister pointed out,

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread John Mattson
There is a subtle and dangerous difference with ISREDIT FIND / CHANGE in REXX. Say you have a simple change command and forget to use rather than /* REXX */ TRACE I ADDRESS ISPEXEC ISREDIT MACRO (MEM) NOPROCESS CONTROL ERRORS RETURN ISREDIT SCAN OFF ISREDIT C ALL 'DISP=SHR,DSN=AAA'

re-entrant modules and the binder

2012-07-19 Thread Frank Swarbrick
I am making changes to make re-entrant our assembler routines that are called by COBOL programs.  I'm trying to decide what are the best default options for the program binder.  It appears that if the option REUS=RENT is given to the binder then the executable (PO or load module) is given the