Re: Central Florida z/OS people

2015-05-19 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Tony, I grew up in Gainesville and I am not "quite" retired. Running the numbers, as they say. 31 years on z and its predecessors, varied roles, mostly as a sysprog. What's the gig? Thanks, Linda - Original Message - From: "Tony Thigpen" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tu

Re: Iowa Spent $50 Million to Lure IBM. Then the Firings Started

2015-05-19 Thread Ed Gould
Phil, Thanks for the article. I have a long time friend who was thinking of interviewing there, I had heard "rumors" and suggested before she accept the job she should better interview the people she would be working for. She did and came to agree with my rumors. She did not take the job,

Re: Central Florida z/OS people

2015-05-19 Thread Fred van der Windt
Just Principles of Operations I think... :) Sent from my new iPad > On May 19, 2015, at 19:22, Ed Finnell > <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > But a principal should have principles? > > > In a message dated 5/19/2015 7:48:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > t...@vse2p

Re: Parm field for debug tool

2015-05-19 Thread Lizette Koehler
Not sure why that is. Perhaps you can post your JCL and error messages. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of michelbutz > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 6:34 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Pa

Re: Parm field for debug tool

2015-05-19 Thread michelbutz
Thank you very much I took the parm out and still encountered Problems seems like debug tool cannt locate My listing I assembled producing adata going to SYSADATA dd Ran the eqalangx utility With that as in and out producing the eqalangx File In my run Jcl EQADEBUG points to this Sent fro

Re: Central Florida z/OS people

2015-05-19 Thread Ed Finnell
But a principal should have principles? In a message dated 5/19/2015 7:48:51 P.M. Central Daylight Time, t...@vse2pdf.com writes: spelling skills, otherwise I would be living on the streets. :-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscrib

Re: Central Florida z/OS people

2015-05-19 Thread zMan
Yeah, sorry, couldn't resist. On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > Yep, they don't pay me for my spelling skills, otherwise I would be living > on the streets. :-) > > Tony Thigpen > > > zMan wrote on 05/19/2015 08:42 PM: > >> Well, I'd hope they'd have more than just a few pri

Re: Central Florida z/OS people

2015-05-19 Thread Tony Thigpen
Yep, they don't pay me for my spelling skills, otherwise I would be living on the streets. :-) Tony Thigpen zMan wrote on 05/19/2015 08:42 PM: Well, I'd hope they'd have more than just a few principles... Oh, you meant "Principals only". :) On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Tony Thigpen wrot

Re: Central Florida z/OS people

2015-05-19 Thread zMan
Well, I'd hope they'd have more than just a few principles... Oh, you meant "Principals only". :) On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > If you are a retired z/OS systems programmer and are somewhere in central > Florida (within 1 hour of Winter Haven) and are interested in some

Re: Parm field for debug tool

2015-05-19 Thread Lizette Koehler
A quick search on www.ibm.com provided this URL http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGTSD_10.1.0/com.ibm.debugtool.doc_10.1/eqaaug02149.htm%23pass2dbg Passing parameters to EQANMDBG When you modify your JCL, CLIST, or REXX EXEC to start EQANMDBG, you pass the following parameters to E

Parm field for debug tool

2015-05-19 Thread michelbutz
Hi Anyone know how to use the parm field for debug Tool to pass info to the program I am having all sorts of issues EXEC PGM=EQANMDBG,PARM= Sent from my iPhone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread Doug
Sorry if I missed a post but, Is the tape DUPLEXED? Can't tell from the column skewing Regards, Doug . On May 19, 2015, at 19:01, retired mainframer wrote: If you want to know what HSM thought was on the tape, use the LIST TTOC command, not LIST BVOL. When asking for assistance with these

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread retired mainframer
If you want to know what HSM thought was on the tape, use the LIST TTOC command, not LIST BVOL. When asking for assistance with these kinds of issues, it is really helpful if you show us the whole job (job log, JCL, control cards, and output) plus all related messages from the system log. > --

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
Check the manual, there is an additional part of the list command to get the specific dataset information. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Michaud, Bruce > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 3:25 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSE

Central Florida z/OS people

2015-05-19 Thread Tony Thigpen
If you are a retired z/OS systems programmer and are somewhere in central Florida (within 1 hour of Winter Haven) and are interested in some part-time (or even full-time) work, or maybe seasonal work, contact me *off-list*. No formal resume requested. Principles only. -- Tony Thigpen --

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread Michaud, Bruce
HHUUMM maybe I didn't give the audit command enough time to work Found this - AUDIT MEDCTL VOLUMES(V03474) /* MSG 916 - I/O ERROR ON VOLUME V03474 /* MSG 998 - AUDIT CONTINUING, COMMAND ACTIVITY LOG MAY CONTAIN ADDITIONAL INFO /* FIXCDS T '01-V03474-' PATCH(X'003C' X'') /* FIXCDS

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread Michaud, Bruce
List shows nada - VOLSER DEVICE BACKUP VOL TOTAL FREETHRESH LAST BACKUPPSWD EXP RACF EMPTY IDRC DUPLEXPCT TYPETYPE FULL TRACKS TRACKS DATE

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread Gibney, David Allen,Jr
There might be other msgs in the log, but I would say that your tape is physically (virtually?) toast. Use the LIST command to determine what was supposed to be on there and see if another coy exists. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread Michaud, Bruce
So sadly if I do an Audit mediacontrols I get this - F DFHSM,AUDIT MEDCTL VOLUMES(V00793) ARC0801I DFSMSHSM AUDIT STARTING IEC501A M 0304,V00793,SL,COMP,DFHSM,DFSMSHSM.S1,DFHSM.BACKTAPE.DATASET ARC0645I DFHSM ,DFSMSHSM,0304,T,SYS76318,READ ,DATA 858 ARC0645I (CONT.) CHECK ,01,BSAM I

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread Lizette Koehler
It looks like ARC1112I RC12 indicates 12 Decompaction failure. Did you check to see if the this might be the case? Are there any additional message in SYSLOG at the time of this failure? Lizette -Original Message- >From: Mike Schwab >Sent: May 19, 2015 12:04 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSER

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread Michaud, Bruce
How would I verify that it has readable data ?? An 'enhanced audit command only showed me - COMMAND ENTERED: AUDIT VOLUMECONTROLS(BACKUP) VOLUMES(V03474) - END OF - ENHANCED AUDIT - LISTING - Just trying not to delete any info :) Thanks Bruce Michaud Mainframe technical support US Airways 5

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes: > I think much of the problem is with credit card numbers > themselves. There are only ~10**16 possible credit card numbers -- > many fewer if you allow for the fact that only certain combinations > are valid. A credit card number is easier to brute-force gu

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Charles Mills
I should shut up and leave an encryption discussion to a *real* expert like Phil. Yeah, probably unclear thinking on my part. I could brute-force guess *your* (or any particular) credit card number in well under 10**16 tries, but -- unlike with guessing a decryption key -- I would have no way

Iowa Spent $50 Million to Lure IBM. Then the Firings Started

2015-05-19 Thread Phil Smith III
Ouch. >From Bloomberg, May 19, 2015: Five years after bringing high-tech jobs to the Midwestern states of Iowa and Missouri, International Business Machines Corp. has fired half its workers there –sowing ire and disappointment for locals and officials alike. To read the entire article, go to

Re: anyone used the AUDIT function in HSM ?

2015-05-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Recycle the tape. It will copy all readable datasets to another tape. List the datasets on the tape. HRecover these datasets from the last backup. Should be empty and able to recycle / delete the empty tape. On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Bruce Michaud wrote: > Just stumbled onto the AUDIT c

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Phil Smith
Charles Mills wrote: >I think much of the problem is with credit card numbers themselves. There are >only ~10**16 possible credit card numbers -- many fewer if you allow for the >fact that only certain combinations are valid. A credit card number is easier >to brute-force guess than its encrypti

Re: Assembler data types to JSON.

2015-05-19 Thread Denis Gäbler
You can use the jzos record generator which is part of the java sdk for z/os. It generates java records out of dsects. With java code it takes ebcdic byte arrays as input and allows to use getter methods to convert the assembler data types into strings, which is basically what json is. You can wr

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Phil Smith
Tony Harminc wrote: >I've heard about this format-preserving encryption for a while, but >haven't had the justification for spending time to really understand >what goes on. But it seems to me on the face of it that any such >encryption must be substantially weaker than what we usually think of >as

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Todd Arnold
> I think much of the problem is with credit card numbers themselves. There are > only ~10**16 possible credit card numbers... Actually, it's much worse than that. You can't encrypt all of the PAN for a credit card. Typically, the first part (the BIN) is required in cleartext in order to rout

Re: QAFF on JOBCLASS statement

2015-05-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <874b151289704e46a874bf2ae6fdd8d1210a5...@kl126r4b.cs.ad.klmcorp.net>, on 05/14/2015 at 02:09 PM, "Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM" said: >Apparently QAFF works for online commands only Yes, but th OP asked *why* QAFF works for online commands only >therefor IOW, it doesn't work because it d

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Phil Smith
Tom Brennan wrote: >As a side note, I bought a couple Western Digital "Passport" drives that >connect via USB to my PC (for mailing data). I copied data to the drive >and oops, I forgot to encrypt before mailing. So I ran through the >encryption process which suprised me because it only took a

Re: Assembler data types to JSON.

2015-05-19 Thread Charles Mills
I have little experience with assembler to JSON but a fair amount of experience with assembler to C and assembler to a proprietary record schema language. The problem with any of these is that assembler is not strongly typed while JSON, C and the record schema are. An assembler programmer can defi

Re: Assembler data types to JSON.

2015-05-19 Thread Rob Schramm
Martin Packer wrote a variety articles about XML, XSLT, JSON and DFSORT google search "martin packer" dfsort json xml xslt ServingXML has an SMF example that was contributed by Graham Hannington http://servingxml.sourceforge.net/examples/index.html#smf HTH, Rob Schramm Rob Schramm Senior Sys

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Charles Mills
I think much of the problem is with credit card numbers themselves. There are only ~10**16 possible credit card numbers -- many fewer if you allow for the fact that only certain combinations are valid. A credit card number is easier to brute-force guess than its encryption key, format-preserving

Assembler data types to JSON.

2015-05-19 Thread Mark Jacobs - Listserv
Can anyone point me to a document for best practices (or recommendations) for mapping Assembler data types to JSON. One of our developers has a requirement to do so. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Technology and Product Engineering The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept.

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Tue, 19 May 2015 07:25:41 -0500, Todd Arnold wrote: >Phil Smith wrote: > > ... and when decommissioning hardware-no more "How many DSEs should >we > do? or "Should we take the drives out back, shoot ‘em with a >12-gauge, > and then drop ‘em in the ocean?". > >Actually, there is a much more i

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Tony Harminc
On 17 May 2015 at 14:39, Phil Smith wrote: > Format-preserving data protection methods achieve PCI DSS compliance while > enabling persistent, > data-centric security. “Format-preserving” means that the encrypted/tokenized > values look and feel > like plaintext: same length, same character set.

I wonder if IBM service request is starting to use watson?

2015-05-19 Thread don isenstadt
I was filling out the IBM service request form and at the bottom it said Innovate with us ... "phrase your issue in the form of a question..." What is an APAR? It just seemed to remind me of jeopardy ... I bet Watson would do great for these kinds of issues.. ---

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Steve Coalbran
Microwave it! /Steve From: Todd Arnold To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-05-19 14:25 Subject:Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List Phil Smith wrote: > ... and when decommissioning hardware-no more "How many DSEs should we > do?

Re: Help with getting a link

2015-05-19 Thread Steve Thompson
Thank you. That is what I needed. Regards, Steve Thompson On 05/18/2015 03:37 PM, Skellen, Frank wrote: Try: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/zswpdf/#Enterprise%20COBOL%20for%20z/OS%20V4R1%20PDFs%20%28Disc%202%29 watch the wrap. --

Re: Where can a running TSO program get its "terminal name"

2015-05-19 Thread Charles Mills
GTTERM is AMODE 24 only! IBM, really? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Godfrey Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where can a running TSO program get its "termina

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Todd Arnold
Phil Smith wrote: > ... and when decommissioning hardware-no more "How many DSEs should we > do? or "Should we take the drives out back, shoot ‘em with a 12-gauge, > and then drop ‘em in the ocean?". Actually, there is a much more interesting corollary to this scenario. If you have a drive th

Re: DFSORT and RACF

2015-05-19 Thread Ed Gould
On May 19, 2015, at 1:33 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: - SNIP --- Agreed. As long you can convince the auditors you can reproduce the reports 100% faithfully fr