Re: High i/o rate and CPU usage by catalog after converting a set of files to extended and placing them on model 54's

2015-02-19 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2015-02-19 o 07:45, Sheldon Davis pisze: Hi I am out of ideas. We converted a set of sequential files to be extended and changed the ACS routine to put the files on model 54's The following is what happened: 1. Jobs that allocated the files took more CPU and ran much longer. 2. The

Re: Check out BBC News - Is your toaster a silent recruit in a 'thingbot' army?

2015-02-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mike Schwab wrote: Printing on bread. http://dornob.com/serial-toasters-and-creative-toast-printing-gadgets/ Not bad, Now I want to write these on my toast 'Please don't eat/toast me!' or 'S0C4 Abend', or 'JCL error in Toaster!' or 'I'm burned!' something like that for us bored Sysprogs...

Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Peter
Hi Group, Apology for asking a dummy question. Is it possible to keep a seperate Password for OMVS alone ? Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: RCF vs. COMMENT (was: IGW01595E message ...)

2015-02-19 Thread John Eells
I forwarded this on to the C compiler team, who retrieved your PMR from the dusty archives and determined it was a Language Environment problem. Apparently it got passed to them and they do see a problem, but then...well...you know what happened in the end, and I think the contributing

Re: Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Hi Group, Apology for asking a dummy question. Is it possible to keep a seperate Password for OMVS alone ? Not out of the box, but so long as RACF supports password and password phrase as separate

Re: Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Peter wrote: Apology for asking a dummy question. Is it possible to keep a separate Password for OMVS alone ? Do you mean you want to logon to a OMVS session (say via OMVS, ISHELL, FTP, etc.) with id but without a password? If so, answer is NO. If it is YES, then I'm sure the RACF people at

Re: Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am not sure I understand your question. Could you provide an example of what you mean? What password, what function, what in OMVS would need a separate password? Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter

Re: Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul Gilmartin wrote: PS: I'm not sure whether you can authenticate yourself to OMVS with say, certificates or something else which can identify yourself. ssh credentials work for that. Might need administrative assistance to set them up. Ah yes, thanks, Paul, for refreshing my decaying and

Re: A possible bug in the IBM Runtimne C library

2015-02-19 Thread Carl Kugler
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:18:05 -0600, Ze'ev Atlas zatl...@yahoo.com wrote: I still think that the decision, many decades ago, to leave the actual definition and implementation of short, int, long, etc. to the implementation rather than enforce rules (16, 32, 64 bits) was wrong and shortsighted.

Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

2015-02-19 Thread Gibney, Dave
I apologize my frequency in the forums lately :) I can't seem to find a way to refresh the permissions to the CA-7 PA@EL resources without rolling the CA-7 address space. Am I expecting too much? I was sure I remembered a way to refresh either in CA-7 or at the CAIRIM/CAISSF level. Dave Gibney

ALL your SIM card encryption keys are belonging to NSA

2015-02-19 Thread Mike Schwab
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/ -- 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

Re: ALL your SIM card encryption keys are belonging to NSA

2015-02-19 Thread Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM
Yes, and about the other things you think that are still private to you, you will be notified soon... George Orwell probably thought he had put the worst thinkable into the 1984 society. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: A possible bug in the IBM Runtimne C library

2015-02-19 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
Sure I could, but the geniuses who created the regex.h and friends did not deem that necessary, so the poor user has to go to the header file, read all the #if's and #else's and figure it our. Not an easy task when you are a COBOL poor user :( ZA

AW: Re: Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Peter Hunkeler
How do I prevent my users' (whom I must give OMVS segments so they can use FTP) using UNIX services? By what means? If you do not want them to be able to login into a shell, set the PROGRAM field in the OMVS segment to '/bin/true', or some such. If the users need to be able to use FTP and

Re: High i/o rate and CPU usage by catalog after converting a set of files to extended and placing them on model 54's

2015-02-19 Thread Lizette Koehler
You may wish to engage IBM via an SR/PMR. They may be able to identify the issue. However, depending on your level of z/OS there may be fixes or suggestions 1) Did you recently install any fixes to the current z/OS or upgrade to a new z/OS? 2) Are you sharing with other LPARs. 3) By

Re: AW: Re: Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:39:00 +0100, Peter Hunkeler wrote: How do I prevent my users' (whom I must give OMVS segments so they can use FTP) using UNIX services? By what means? If you do not want them to be able to login into a shell, set the PROGRAM field in the OMVS segment to '/bin/true', or

Re: Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 07:40:52 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Peter wrote: Apology for asking a dummy question. Is it possible to keep a separate Password for OMVS alone ? PS: I'm not sure whether you can authenticate yourself to OMVS with say, certificates or something else which can

Re: A possible bug in the IBM Runtimne C library

2015-02-19 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
I am going back to the drawing board and I will have a hard look at the regex.h again and will do some tests with 64 bits compilations vs. 32 bits. It is extremely hard to deduce from the documentation what to expect and what structure is in effect when one compiles with any combination of

Re: Strange C runtime library behavior

2015-02-19 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
Thank you all I am going back to the drawing board as I've mentioned on another thread ZA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: RCF vs. COMMENT (was: IGW01595E message ...)

2015-02-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:51:35 -0500, John Eells wrote: I forwarded this on to the C compiler team, who retrieved your PMR from the dusty archives and determined it was a Language Environment problem. ... In any event, the Language Environment guys are a bit horrified that this happened. Sounds

Re: Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In capikfhgi5onx3zswmuvplmsfmwrggephotwe9ektkporykx...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/19/2015 at 06:48 PM, Peter dbajava...@gmail.com said: Is it possible to keep a seperate Password for OMVS alone ? On the same LPAR? Not without a separate userid. Simiolarly, if you use a password phrase it's the

Re: Lenovo and Superfish

2015-02-19 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:32:53 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Here we go again: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish/ The gall of these people is unbelievable. Hop on a plane that uses gogo for onboard wifi with one of these, and *really* expose yourself to a man-in-the middle attack.

Lenovo and Superfish

2015-02-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Here we go again: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lenovo-superfish/ And, a classic (Ken Thompson ca. 1984): http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

2015-02-19 Thread Neubert, Kevin
Any help here? TEC428347 http://www.ca.com/us/support/ca-support-online/product-content/knowledgebase-articles/tec428347.aspx Regards, Kevin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Thursday, February 19,

Re: A possible bug in the IBM Runtimne C library

2015-02-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1346088131080403.wa.zatlas1yahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on 02/19/2015 at 08:18 AM, Ze'ev Atlas 004b34e7c98a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu said: I still think that the decision, many decades ago, to leave the actual definition and implementation of short, int, long, etc. to the

Re: Refreshing CAISSF for CA-7

2015-02-19 Thread Gibney, Dave
This is helpful. Not as immediately helpful as I had hoped, but helpful. I may be in business anyway. Truns out that I probably have the definitions I need already in my Production Lpar. This time it was development that was out of sync and it wasn't a big deal to roll CA-7 there.