Re: Convert TOD to calendar date/time

Thanks for all the great suggestions. I used stckconv, but I'll check out these other methods too. Cheers Donald Russell On Wednesday, October 1, 2014, Peter Relson wrote: > Also, the BLSUXTOD (8-byte STCK input) and BLSUETOD (16-byte STCKE input) > services. > > Peter Relson > z/OS Core Tech

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

On Oct 1, 2014, at 5:14 PM, John Gilmore wrote: -SNIP___ Charles Mills is quite right. Almost all optimizing compilers do something very like this, the chief differences among them being in whether the language of the messages emitted when an unrea

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

Sorry, "Scott covered most of this ..." -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

Scot covered most of this - most importantly the need to inspect the workloads on the LPAR(s) of interest. Despite being for DEVL, the latter report is better as the machine is now busy. So let's turn the question around: Q: Is PROD getting all the CPU it wants ?. A: YES. The weights indicate y

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

Does anyone know if IBM is releasing a patch for the DSK? Someone posted IBM acknowledged the HMC is exposed. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 1, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Dana Mitchell wrote: > >> On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 16:27:04 +0200, R.S. >> wrote: >> >> My humble opinion is the isolated devices are n

Re: Any standard IBM tool to set ISPF statistics in a batch step?

Nope, in one of the scenes, Marilyn sang a song, "Lazy", it is the first thing that pops into my mind when someone says they want to be lazy. Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 Information Technology University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion L

Re: Any standard IBM tool to set ISPF statistics in a batch step?

Ethel Merman - -teD -   Original Message   From: Nims,Alva John (Al) Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 17:49 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Any standard IBM tool to set ISPF statistics in a batch step? 1st about being Lazy, I hear ya, queue up "Th

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

There is a standard technique for doing this, used first by Lowry and Medlock in their FORTRAN H compiler. One first constructs a sequence of 'busy blocks' such that if the first statement in such a block is executed all of the others are too. Next one constructs a boolean connectivity array C =

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

There is a standard techniq On 10/1/14, Charles Mills wrote: > That's weird, because that is one of the things that an *optimizing* > compiler tends to notice: hey, I tried to optimize this, and when I did I > optimized it right out of existence! > > Have you tested with full optimization on? > >

Re: Any standard IBM tool to set ISPF statistics in a batch step?

1st about being Lazy, I hear ya, queue up "There's No Business Like Show Business" and Marilyn Monroe (yes I am showing my age, a little). In #357 is member, @LOADLIB, this is a XMIT of the author's LOADLIB, so receive it to recreate the LOADLIB data set, touch is in there already compiled. Al

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

That's weird, because that is one of the things that an *optimizing* compiler tends to notice: hey, I tried to optimize this, and when I did I optimized it right out of existence! Have you tested with full optimization on? (My remarks are general in nature and not specific to this compiler.) Cha

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

John, We're almost to the point to begin trying to measure performance improvement, so if I find anything significant I'll post it later, but have you seen the SHARE presentation from Tom Ross where he documents how performance improvements are achieved? It's informative, and can help guide y

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

I know of a couple of places running a single CPU, probably because the mainframes were supposed to be replaced by Windows/Unix - except they ended up staying for a handful of applications deemed too difficult to move. A single processor bothers me too, but these systems are hanging by a threa

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

1985? You're just a young'un. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Martin Packer Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 15:20 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand FWIW the vast majority of my customer set have multiple engines in

FW: Converting vse to z/OS

Sorry didn't mean to give the impression that the manual was not helpful, only wanted to be aware Of changes made to VSE to be more Z/os compat. We have converted a few from VSE to z/os here also. We actually run a mix of LPARS with a few VM ( multiple VSE guests ), and some z/os lpars w/o VM

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

W dniu 2014-10-01 o 21:13, Ted MacNEIL pisze: ‎It was secure. I honestly don't know about bash. I wasn't a user of the HTC. Rather. I co-ordinated people who did. It was rhetorical. You had no access to bash. In the old days it was OS/2 with CMD.EXE, since z9 and HMC 2.9.x it was Linux, but w

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

Way OT-as a coop student was working as 411 operator during big CWA strike in late 60's. 12 on 12 off. Vending machines were 'open'. Young lady got a grilled cheese and nuked it a couple of times in new uWave. Third time-cool bread just popped in a big bite. Third degree burns on roof and ton

Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

Hi, All, Has anyone implemented COBOL 5.1 to the point that you have measured the "promised" performance improvements in application code over the same code compiled with earlier COBOL compilers? Any "hiccups" or other glitches or gotchas you'd care to mention with COBOL v5.1? TIA, -jc- *

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

FWIW the vast majority of my customer set have multiple engines in their machines and the vast majority of their LPARs are defined as logical 2-way and above. And to think when I got into this game (in 1985) there was still quite a lot of suspicion of multiprocessors. Going from a max of 4 to

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

gib...@wsu.edu (Gibney, Dave) writes: > In my opinion, back in the day, there as a benefit of going to > fewer/faster engines. But, with a deep drop off a precipice when fewer > reached one. > > Never again will I willingly agree to be on a single CPU machine. in the past, multiple engines have be

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

‎It was secure. I honestly don't know about bash. I wasn't a user of the HTC. Rather. I co-ordinated people who did. - -teD -   Original Message   From: R.S. Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 13:42 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: More on the Bash S

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

Your microwave should be safe - as long as you do not heat ... corn beef bash ... The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender

Re: PSF OGL PPFA ACIF alternatives?

If you can move your printers most of these run on AIX. Depending on how complex your mix of Formdefs,Pagedefs, Overlays and Psegs(images) ePrint was how we wound out of PSF. It's a Linux box that takes line printer output and converts to .PDF for viewing. Not a trivial undertaking but save

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Scott Chapman > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 6:08 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand > > Snip > Finally, my opinion is that machin

Re: SCEELKED Restore

This was a question I was hoping would come up? :) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John Eells > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 6:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: SCEELKED Restore > > mainfram

PSF OGL PPFA ACIF alternatives?

Anyone know of a viable alternative to PSF, OGL, PPFA, and ACIF on z/OS? TIA Ken Ken Porowski VP Mainframe Engineering CIT Information Technology One CIT Drive Livingston, NJ 07039 +1 973 740 5459 (tel) ken.porow...@cit.com www.cit.com This e

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

W dniu 2014-10-01 o 19:41, John McKown pisze: Well, some of the HMC's are Linux based on what is basically a standard Intel PC. Most Linux systems have BASH installed. So it might not actually surprise me to find it on the disk, if I were to remove it and put it in another PC. Now, being able to

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

On 14Oct01:1241-0500, John McKown wrote: > > Well, some of the HMC's are Linux based on what is basically a > standard Intel PC. Most Linux systems have BASH installed. So it might > not actually surprise me to find it on the disk, if I were to remove > it and put it in another PC. > Now, being ab

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

That's the hard part. We don't know yet. Service directors, gazillion printers, routers, switches, and multitudes of appliances with more processing power than most 360's. Not to mention smart phones and phablets. Certainly network security and topology come into play. The Internet was st

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

W dniu 2014-10-01 o 19:02, Ted MacNEIL pisze: What about companies that allow HMC access from home? I used to work for one. Did you use bash? Note: As I said, I'm talking about this vulnerability, not about any possible vulnerability. BTW: I'm sure your connection to HMC was secured, wasn't

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:38 AM, David L. Craig wrote: > On 14Oct01:1705+0200, R.S. wrote: > >> Important: we are not talking about any possible >> vulnerability, we are talking about THIS vulnerability. > > I did not understand your comment to be so limited. > Frankly I would be stupified to lear

Re: Is IBM still registering "component IDs"?

Now there's a Shmuel answer! To close the loop, thank you John (you know who you are) and IBM. We now have our prefix officially registered. Yes, there is a real human being behind elem...@us.ibm.com and she is very nice. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mai

Re: SCEELKED Restore

I don't think you want to do this! It will restore EVERYTHING from your backup tape, not just SYS1.SCEELKED. As others have stated, I think you should remove SCEELKED from the linklist. As far as your more immediate need, I would perform a restore of SCEELKED using the RENUNC parameter to giv

Re: DFDSS QUESTION : ALL DSNS NOT MOVED

On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 09:47:44 -0700, John Dawes wrote: >G'Day, > >I am attempting to move all the dsns from 1 volume to another (both SMS >managed) using the DFDSS/COPY command with the DELETE & PURGE parms however >for some unknown reason there were several dsns which were not moved. The >volum

Re: DFDSS QUESTION : ALL DSNS NOT MOVED

As far as I know the dsns were not multi-volume. They all resided on 1 source volume. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

What about companies that allow HMC access from home? I used to work for one. - -teD -   Original Message   From: R.S. Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 10:27 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 &

Re: DFDSS QUESTION : ALL DSNS NOT MOVED

Hi John, I notice that you specified an input volume. When DFDSS encounters a data set that is multi-volume and not all of the volumes are included in the input volume list then we will not select that data set. Could it be that the data sets were multi-volume? Thanks, Robert Gensler DFSMSdss A

DFDSS QUESTION : ALL DSNS NOT MOVED

G'Day, I am attempting to move all the dsns from 1 volume to another (both SMS managed) using the DFDSS/COPY command with the DELETE & PURGE parms however for some unknown reason there were several dsns which were not moved. The volume has all DB2 (VSAM) dsns. I checked the filtering criteria

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

On 14Oct01:1705+0200, R.S. wrote: > Important: we are not talking about any possible > vulnerability, we are talking about THIS vulnerability. I did not understand your comment to be so limited. Frankly I would be stupified to learn bash is installed in any HMC and that would alarm me exceedingly

Re: SCEELKED Restore

Why restore more than one dataset? How old is the dump? Was the dump physical or logical? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mainframe Mainframe > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2014 3:12 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.U

Re: SCEELKED Restore

On 10/1/2014 5:09 AM, Mainframe Mainframe wrote: Hi Group, We have some issues wth SYS1.SCEELKED and want to restore from backup, but SYSTEM DATASET JOBNAME DISP STATUS -- -

Re: SCEELKED Restore

One last thought. Both SCEELKED and (SCEERUN or SCEERUN2, etc..) may have like named modules. Depending on where you put the SCEELKED in the Linklst, you may be executing a STUB module and not the RUN TIME Module. I would suggest you need to fully review your Linklst setup. You may have other

Re: BASH 4.2

Rocket Software has released a patch to Rocket Ported Tools for z/OS Bash 4.2 that fixes the Shellshock vulnerability [both CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169]. The updated package is available for download here: http://www.rocketsoftware.com/rocket-ported-tools-zos Bob Shannon Rocket Software ===

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

W dniu 2014-10-01 o 16:50, David L. Craig pisze: On 14Oct01:1627+0200, R.S. wrote: HMC is good example of such device. You don't install anything on that, you don't connect it to the Internet just like PC, the connection to IBM support system is quite different thing. While it's good to fix any

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 16:27:04 +0200, R.S. wrote: > > My humble opinion is the isolated devices are not in danger even if the > microcode has some vulnerabilities. > HMC is good example of such device. You don't install anything on that, > you don't connect it to the Internet just like PC, the conn

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

On 14Oct01:1627+0200, R.S. wrote: > > HMC is good example of such device. You don't install > anything on that, you don't connect it to the Internet > just like PC, the connection to IBM support system > is quite different thing. While it's good to fix any > vulnerability if possible, I wouldn't

AW: Converting vse to z/OS

Gadi, have a look at redbook SG24-2043-00 (VSE to OS/390 Migration workbook), it helped me a lot in earlier days Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von ??? ?? ??? Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2014 13:25 An

Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169 & CVE-2014-6278 & CVE-2014-6277

And yet more details are emerging. Vendors push new Bash patches as more flaws emerge http://tinyurl.com/msu7kpm Vendors are hurriedly implementing a new patch released over the weekend for the 'Shellshock' Bash vulnerability, but researchers have since found more Bash flaws that will likely ne

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

Rex, My humble opinion is the isolated devices are not in danger even if the microcode has some vulnerabilities. HMC is good example of such device. You don't install anything on that, you don't connect it to the Internet just like PC, the connection to IBM support system is quite different thi

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

Yes, there are commercial microwaves that read food package barcodes, look up the power settings and timings from a website, and run according to the stored directions. http://madebynathan.com/2013/07/10/raspberry-pi-powered-microwave/ (home built but states commercially made microwaves available)

Re: Converting vse to z/OS

I read from the question an implication of intent to move a single application from VSE to an existing z/OS system that has resources to spare. While the expense and effort of creating and learning a new z/OS environment and migrating from VSE to z/OS can be a major effort, moving just one applic

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

Radoslaw, About whether your microwave is safe or not. Is it connected to the internet? If so, it may be safe but other devices may not be because of it. Does it have enough compute power and memory for somebody to remotely inject code into it? Could this code then be used to send bogus req

Re: SCEELKED Restore

On 10/01/2014 04:09 AM, Mainframe Mainframe wrote: > Hi Group, > We have some issues wth SYS1.SCEELKED and want to restore > from backup, but > SYSTEM DATASET JOBNAME DISP > STATUS > -- --

Re: SCEELKED Restore

mainframe1...@gmail.com (Mainframe Mainframe) wrote: We have sys1.sceelked in linklist. But I feel we should use below parm to restore from backup, but not sure. OK, I have to ask: What made you think SCEELKED should be in the link list? -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

W dniu 2014-10-01 o 14:51, Dana Mitchell pisze: On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:42:15 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: As for z/OS, most z/OS customers are likely to be unaffected. IBM acknowledged that DS8000 HMCs currently utilize BASH and are thus vunerable. What does it mean? Do you download & in

Re: zOS 1.13 – CPU latent demand

As Martin mentioned, "unaccounted" could be multiple things. However, from the reports you've shown, my first guess would also be that it's likely related to CPU contention. However, I would start by looking at RMF III's DELAY, PROC, and ENCLAVE (if we're talking about DDF threads) and looking

Re: Refer Back in JCL

Hi Steve, Thanks. Just thought of updating here for anyone else encountering similar issue. I was able to fix that issue, as you suggested. I coded the REF=ST code in the storage group routine and it worked. Regards Varun On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Gormley, Steve wrote: > Hi, > The REF=

Re: More on the Bash Security Vulnerability: CVE-2014-6271 & CVE-2014-7169

On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:42:15 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: > >As for z/OS, most z/OS customers are likely to be unaffected. > IBM acknowledged that DS8000 HMCs currently utilize BASH and are thus vunerable. Dana -- For IBM-M

Re: SCEELKED Restore

Note: Language Environment library routines are divided into two categories: resident routines and dynamic routines. The resident routines are linked with the application and include such things as initialization/termination routines and pointers to callable services. The dynamic routines are n

Re: SCEELKED Restore

SCEELKED is not needed in the link list. There are other LE datasets that could/should be in the Linklst, but IMO SCEELKED is not one of them. SCEELKED is used during LKED (BINDER) time. It has no value in the LINKLST. It contains stubs used during LKED time. So it should be on the SYSLIB DD

Re: Is IBM still registering "component IDs"?

Answer: yes Peter rel...@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: Convert TOD to calendar date/time

Also, the BLSUXTOD (8-byte STCK input) and BLSUETOD (16-byte STCKE input) services. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.e

Re: Converting vse to z/OS

​Gadi, If you convert, why z/os? there are good alternatives outside of the mainframe that are (very) price competitive. As you may see in Israel, most VSE customers went Windows or Linux. not z/os. ITschak ​ ITschak Mugzach Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments Professi

Converting vse to z/OS

Hi, I was asked to find out about tools and services to convert an application from VSE to z/OS. I asked the same question about 10 years ago, and the answers I received back then do not seem to be relevant. IF it matters, the system to be converted is in Israel. Thanks Gadi ___

Re: Convert TOD to calendar date/time

On 01-Oct-14 00:41, Donald Russell wrote: I have zOS 2.1 and am looking for an assembler macro or some other utility I can call (load/delete or via cvt etc) to convert an 8-byte TOD clock value into a character string like -mm-dd hh:mm:ss.uu That actual date format doesn't matter too muc

Re: Convert TOD to calendar date/time

All From at least MVS 3.8 on there is standard TIME macro provided for use in assembler. The z390 portable mainframe assembler tool for Windows, Linux, and Apple OSX includes a compatible TIME macro. Also available from the z390 website is zip of the MVS 3.8 public domain standard macros incl

Re: ISRDDN SHOWS MEMBER ALIAS

In <0654728648182988.wa.jeff.ruegseggeravnet@listserv.ua.edu>, on 09/29/2014 at 05:58 PM, "Ruegsegger, Jeff" said: >I've run across something strange. I was modifying an IPCS clist >in our in house CLIST library. CLIST or REXX? >Whilst using ISRDDN to locate the correct version I no

Re: SCEELKED Restore

We have sys1.sceelked in linklist. But I feel we should use below parm to restore from backup, but not sure. RESTORE INDDNAME(TAPE) OUTDDNAME(DASD1) - DATASET(INCLUDE(**)) TOL(ENQF) WAIT(0,0) On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:12 PM, גדי בן אבי wrote: > I would restore the library first to a

Re: SCEELKED Restore

I would restore the library first to a different name, shut down lla, and unallocated from xcfas, rename and then restart lla and allocate to Xcfas. We do not have sceelked in the linklist. Are you sure you need it there? Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mail

Re: SCEELKED Restore

Thanks for reply. I used these command before, SETPROG LNKLST,UNALLOCATE P LLA S LLA,SUB=MSTR SETPROG LNKLST,ALLOCATE But by using this P LLA and UNALLOCATE LINKLIST, might cause serious issue this time with SYS1.SCEELKED becuase its core system library and that what I am afraid of . So, I r

Re: SCEELKED Restore

I think you can do this by: 1) remove the LLA enqueue by shutting down LLA on all system in the sysplex (and wear the performance hit for a while) 2) remove the XCFAS enqueue by issuing command SETPROG LNKLST,UNALLOCATE on all systems Restore your dataset. Maybe to an alternate residence volum

SCEELKED Restore

Hi Group, We have some issues wth SYS1.SCEELKED and want to restore from backup, but SYSTEM DATASET JOBNAME DISP STATUS -- --- - -- MVS1 SYS1.SCEELKED