Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/3/2014 4:52 PM, dpewen wrote: Yes ... SPKA requires SUP state SPKA works in problem state if the PKM allows it. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: Beta92 help

2014-03-04 Thread Sun, Biao
Try this job to get the archive expiration date of jobs: //BQL EXEC PGM=BST01RFF,REGION=0M, // PARM=('S=92,B01LST=nn,B92LST=nn', // 'PGM=BST05CMD,SIGNON=YES') //*

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Scott
Douglas Do you have a server address space for your product? If so, can I suggest that perhaps a re-design would be beneficial here to remove any requirement for the client caller to be running in non-problem state : (1) Have your server setup a system-LX and ETDEF a space-switch PC routine

Re: z/OS WIKI access from a mianframe (TSO)

2014-03-04 Thread Jousma, David
Gotcha, missed that part of the requirement. I will however say that the wiki pages are readable text files. So one could go read the Unix filesystem directly if you knew the files you were asking for. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Micheal Butz
It's.all a catch 22 as you need to authorized to create PC rtn's Sent from my iPhone On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:32 AM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: On 3/3/2014 4:52 PM, dpewen wrote: Yes ... SPKA requires SUP state SPKA works in problem state if the PKM allows it. --

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Scott
Obviously the *server* code that owns the PC routines must run in an authorized environment - however the important thing here is that the *client* code runs in problem state. Using a PC-ss to add requests to a server ASID to perform the authorized function on behalf of the caller means that :

IMS DB Segment modification

2014-03-04 Thread Ron Thomas
Hello. We IMS DB in this we are planning to drop one of the fields from one segment which is having 2 bytes and expand the adjacant field from the current 2 bytes to 4 bytes. We are modifying the programs for this, so kindly let someone let me know what things we need to take care for the

Re: Disabled wait

2014-03-04 Thread Mark Pace
The reason I can't open a PMR is political so I won't discuss that, we'll just leave it at I can't. But through some slow application of maintenance I determined the 2 that PTFs that cause the DW are UA69565 and UA71730. I've no idea why they cause an issue, but when I apply them I get the DW.

Re: OCOPY fails to convert text

2014-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5223415504632809.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 03/03/2014 at 05:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: But, is there a convenient alternative collective term designating those 8-bit character sets in which 'A' is 0x41; '0' is 0x30, etc.? Perhaps Shmuel can, in a more

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9111247477380775.wa.dpewenbellsouth@listserv.ua.edu, on 03/03/2014 at 05:51 PM, Douglas P Ewen dpe...@bellsouth.net said: Although I have APF authorized the program that tries to update the que (sic) How? Is there anyway to allow a program to successfully issue the MODESET SVC under

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9819019940159674.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 03/03/2014 at 06:14 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I have no idea why APF authorized library and link edit with AC=1 alone don't suffice. Because it would be a major security breach. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1393894348.42329.yahoomail...@web181502.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 03/03/2014 at 04:52 PM, dpewen dpe...@bellsouth.net said: Yes ... SPKA requires SUP state Actually, it's only semiprivileged. In problem state it can set any key enabled in the PSW-key mask. However, z/OS will not (I hope)

Re: z/OS WIKI access from a mianframe (TSO)

2014-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4ee2851a2279b94cb70cd69b17410609b7e7b...@s1flokydce2kx01.dm0001.info53.com, on 03/04/2014 at 12:09 PM, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com said: I will however say that the wiki pages are readable text files. And not much harder to parse than HTML. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Disabled wait

2014-03-04 Thread Staller, Allan
UA69565 closes APAR OA42179 UA71730 closes APAR OA43690 As of a few minutes ago, neither PTF was indicated as a PE. I checked the cover letters for the z/OS 2.1 versions of those PTF's (UA69566 and UA71731) and of the 2 I would consider UA71730 the most likely culprit. I would check you apply

Re: IMS DB Segment modification

2014-03-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Ron, If you have not done so, you might want to join the IMS List for this type of question. It will probably be a better place to ask http://imslistserv.bmc.com/SCRIPTS/WA-BMC.EXE?SUBED1=IMS-LA=1 When posting remember to include your level of IMS, z/OS Lizette -Original Message-

Re: Disabled wait

2014-03-04 Thread Mark Pace
Once I get the last of the maintenance I am working on applied, I'll go back and try to apply these again looking for any irregularities with SYS1.NUCLEUS. On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.comwrote: UA69565 closes APAR OA42179 UA71730 closes APAR OA43690 As

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 08:54:43 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 9819019940159674.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 03/03/2014 at 06:14 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I have no idea why APF authorized library and link edit with AC=1 alone don't suffice. Because

Re: Disabled wait

2014-03-04 Thread Jousma, David
You don't have SYS1.NUCLEUS allocated with secondary extents do you? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 9:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Disabled wait Once I get

Re: Disabled wait

2014-03-04 Thread Mark Pace
No, it's allocated exactly as it came from IBM. Data Set Name . . . : SYS1.NUCLEUS General Data Current Allocation Volume serial . . . : TRES13 Allocated blocks . : 1,072 Device type . . . . : 3390Allocated extents . : 1 Organization . . . : PO

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Leonardo Vaz
True, I have never understood that either, gil. It might more to do with executing the program in the appropriate TCB than a security exposure. Leo -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, March

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread John McKown
It has to do with the fact that the APF code itself could become corrupted (if loaded into key-8 storage) by some user code running under a different TCB. Or that some key 8 storage area used by the APF code could be corrupted by user code running on a different TCB. This corruption could be

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Rob Scott
The difference is that TSO (and ISPF) runs in problem state and the jobstep is unauthorized. In batch, when executing a program linked AC(1) that comes from a valid APF authorized library, then the entire jobstep is considered authorized. TSO must jump through a few hoops to attempt to provide

Re: z/OS WIKI access from a mianframe (TSO)

2014-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 53150444.5030...@acm.org, on 03/03/2014 at 04:37 PM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: I see no reason to require that there be a browser that would run under TSO to display the documentation on a 3270. The OP wrote In this case the user can access the mainframe only via TSO

Re: z/OS WIKI access from a mianframe (TSO)

2014-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAJTOO5_Mi=+d+vixawrygrnzo3q9n_yexxepe0nacgpbyu9...@mail.gmail.com, on 03/03/2014 at 02:30 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: Lynx runs under Unix System Services (z/Unix). There is an OMVS shell for running Unix under TSO, but can you render wiki pages with a text browser? --

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Leonardo Vaz
Wow, this ended up way more interesting than I thought it would! Thanks for the info Rob and John! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 11:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

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2014-03-04 Thread Ed Gould
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Re: OCOPY fails to convert text

2014-03-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 March 2014 20:54, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: GIYF. I refer you to these Wikipedia references, the first of which makes it quite clear that iso-8859-1 is definitely NOT Windows, though it does call it ASCII-based; and the second of which is a nice reference

Re: OCOPY fails to convert text

2014-03-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:24:41 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: On 3 March 2014 20:54, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: GIYF. I refer you to these Wikipedia references, the first of which makes it quite clear that iso-8859-1 is definitely NOT Windows, though it does call it ASCII-based; and the second of

Re: Disabled wait

2014-03-04 Thread Mike Schwab
UA69565 http://www.ibm.com/Search/?q=UA69565co=uslo=anysn=lang=encc=USen=utfhpp= ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/holddata/quarter.txt ++HOLD(HDZ1D10) FMID(HDZ1D10) REASON(AA42179) ERROR DATE(13365 ) COMMENT(SMRTDATA(FIX(UA69565) SYMP(PRF) CHGDT(131231))) UA71730

Re: IMS DB Segment modification

2014-03-04 Thread Itschak Mugzach
If the field is to drop is not defined to IMS, IS is not aware of the change at all. If the field is defined to IMS, you should check why. It might be a key or search field and shouldn't be deleted unless you change the database definition, unload and reload the data. You should consult your DBA

zFS aggregate growth amount query

2014-03-04 Thread Jousma, David
As Allan mentions there is a APAR on this subject. It is marked RESTART/BOOT/IPL/FUNCTIONLOSS. We have not experienced the problem, but the Issue #2 listed in it sounds pretty bad if you are in a Shared Filesystem sysplex environment. If only one system in your plex has the bad PTF

Writing a Mainframe Systems Programmer Resume

2014-03-04 Thread Joe Gallaher
I would like to invite anyone attending next week's SHARE conference in Anaheim to come to my session on How to Write a Resume for a Mainframe Systems Programmer (session 15391, Tuesday, March 11, 12:15pm). It is the 8th time I have given this presentation at SHARE and it contains a lot of

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Andy Wood
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:25:10 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: . . . Because it would be a major security breach. That doesn't tell me much. Why? How? Would it be any less a security breach to invoke such a program from JCL with EXEC PGM=... which likewise causes it to run in

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread John Gilmore
About pointers to executable code Andy Wood wrote: | Such parameters cannot be provided | when executing the program using JCL. While this is of course literally true, it is not usefully so. It is, for example, possible to to provide offsets (in the form of unsigned external decimal-digit

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Scott Ford
John, I ran into issues with that doing Rexx from a Cobol STC, that we haven't converted to C yet. I ended up calling a IRXJCL rexx stub that did a LINKMVS to some code..I cheated , I plead guilty ….lol Regards, Scott From: John McKown Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎March‎ ‎4‎, ‎2014

Re: ISPF storage protection

2014-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 769b2e18f7b2fa48b3adea85570a28769a560...@mtl-hq-x01.cn.ca, on 03/04/2014 at 03:51 PM, Leonardo Vaz leonardo@cn.ca said: Would it be any less a security breach to invoke such a program from JCL with EXEC PGM=... which likewise causes it to run in the authorized state? Yes. What makes it

Re: OCOPY fails to convert text

2014-03-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2783130373802539.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 03/04/2014 at 12:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I think I'll go with ASCII-based until Shmuel objects. And long thereafter. That would be impossible. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT