Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-14 Thread John P. Baker
decimal value (taking into consideration all six (6) valid sign representations) and a 0.18% probability of containing a valid packed decimal value (taking into consideration only the two (2) preferred sign representations). John P. Baker NGSSA, LLC -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Updated z/Architecture Principles of Operation

2012-08-28 Thread John P. Baker
Has any information been forthcoming in respect to when an updated z/Architecture Principles of Operation will be made available? John P. Baker -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-10-06 Thread John P. Baker
Scott, BIF = Built-in Function John P. Baker President NGSSA, LLC -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 2:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a correspondence

Re: ASSIST Assembler

2013-11-17 Thread John P. Baker
Cameron, It is available at http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/download/zips/assist.tgz. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Cameron Seay Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 10:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Numeric Literal Specification Standard

2013-07-19 Thread John P. Baker
Is anyone aware of any numeric literal specification standard, particularly insofar as IBM internal storage allocations (short (4-byte), long (8-byte), and extended (16-byte)) and storage formats (binary floating point, decimal floating point, and hexadecimal floating point) ? John P. Baker

Re: Is there a reverse bits hardware instruction?

2013-07-23 Thread John P. Baker
Gil, The maximum negative value must also be treated as a special case. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 7:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: CPACF

2013-08-29 Thread John P. Baker
) when the Message Security Assist Extension 4 is available. You can then use the query function of each of the various CPACF-supplied instructions to determine the availability of more granular capabilities. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM

Re: Looking for COBOL V5R1 Softcopy Librarian docs

2013-09-13 Thread John P. Baker
quotes, while the settings of the TITLE and UPDATE sections are self-explanatory. Again, I do NOT have any information in respect to length limitations for the TITLE settings. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-13 Thread John P. Baker
In addition to OA41040, there are at least three (3) related APARs -- OA41558 DEVSERV OA42887 SRM OA42912 [Not available] John P. Baker -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: IBM Launches the z13 Mainframe

2015-01-15 Thread John P. Baker
Timothy, Will IBM be releasing a new edition of the z/Architecture Principles of Operation publication, or will the SIMD instruction set be documented in a separate publication, as was the case with the earlier vector facilities? John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Top-Secret

2015-02-01 Thread John P. Baker
a TSO environment entails. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 2:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Top-Secret Peter: The command in question runs in TSO

DB2 Application Multitasking

2015-07-03 Thread John P. Baker
I am looking for any pointers to documentation describing how to structure a multitasking assembler program where multiple subtasks are concurrently accessing DB2. No two (2) subtasks will be accessing the same DB2 table concurrently. Any assistance will be most welcome. John P. Baker

Re: 64 bit ICMxx ?

2015-07-17 Thread John P. Baker
a 20-bit signed offset. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 8:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: 64 bit ICMxx ? Recently got into some real 64-bit coding

Re: BPXWUNIX and sort

2015-11-06 Thread John P. Baker
Bill, Including" LC_COLLATE=S370" resolved the problem. Thanks for your insight. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Godfrey Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 7:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: SK3T-4271-28

2015-10-04 Thread John P. Baker
Robert, You can get all of the z/OS v1.12 manuals via the IBM Softcopy Librarian. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Prins Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2015 4:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Re: Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control Systems

2015-09-20 Thread John P. Baker
up with ethical guidelines for members of our profession, rather than leaving it to government to do it, which as we all know, would not be in our best interests. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott

Re: Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control Systems

2015-09-18 Thread John P. Baker
Richard, I think that there is a big difference here in that the programming staff at Volkswagen, if the initial reports are accurate, could not reasonably not have known that what they were coding was in furtherance of a crime. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control Systems

2015-09-18 Thread John P. Baker
of either idea. However, I would like to hear what others think. John P. Baker -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

OMVS Mass Reassign of File Owner

2017-02-09 Thread John P. Baker
All, Is there an OMVS command or utility, either from IBM or from a 3rd party, to search thru the OMVS filesystem, locate all directories and/or files having a specific GID and/or UID, and to then reassign those directories and/or files to a new GID and/or UID? John P. Baker

Re: OMVS Mass Reassign of File Owner

2017-02-11 Thread John P. Baker
Nathan, The find/chgrp/chown worked great. Thanks for pointing it out to me. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pfister, Nathan Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 4:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

R_cacheserv

2017-02-11 Thread John P. Baker
All, I am currently looking into the benefits, if any, of the R_cacheserv service in an environment running CA Top Secret Security. What products are able to make use of it and is cache hardening worthwhile? John P. Baker

OMVS Automount Processing

2017-03-01 Thread John P. Baker
asis_name" refer to the directory qualifier immediately subordinate to the directory specified in "/etc/auto.master" which is being referenced by the userid? John P. Baker -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Mainframe operating systems?

2017-04-15 Thread John P. Baker
Phil, BOS/360 (predecessor to DOS), TOS/360, TSS/360, RTOS/360, MTS, DPPX/370, and UTS (Amdahl UNIX) should be added to your list. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith Sent: Saturday, April 15

Re: Vector processing instructions

2017-08-09 Thread John P. Baker
have not tested this). The logic for converting a signed 128-bit value is slightly more complex, but is also do-able without any significant difficulty. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Amrith Sent: Sunday, Aug

Re: Suspended SRB scheduled with SYNCH=YES?

2017-05-25 Thread John P. Baker
to the caller's work unit. John P. Baker Sent from my iPhone > On May 25, 2017, at 11:39 PM, Donald Likens <dlik...@infosecinc.com> wrote: > > I am attempting something that per the manual will not work (but I think > makes sense). Does anyone know what happens when an SRB

Re: new member, need old iron assistance

2017-04-30 Thread John P. Baker
I recommend that you take a look at IBM publication GA23-0214-03. Do a Google search on "3174 customization" and select the entry starting "Full text of...". John P. Baker Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 29, 2017, at 7:39 PM, Parwez Hamid <parwez_ha...@hotmail.com>

Re: RACF x CA-TopSecret

2017-10-11 Thread John P. Baker
Carlos, Please see my answers below. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Carlos Bodra - Pessoal Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 5:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: RACF x CA-TopSecret I need

Re: [E!] Re: Re: Automatic Alias Creation

2019-05-22 Thread John P. Baker
cess to resource ID "STGADMIN.IGG.DEFDEL.UALIAS" in resource class ID "FACILITY"). John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sasan Mirkhani Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 2:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [E!] Re:

Re: [E!] Re: Automatic Alias Creation

2019-05-22 Thread John P. Baker
Sasan, SailPoint IIQ can be customized to issue the IDCAMS DEFINE ALIAS and the IDCAMS DELETE ALIAS commands. The "CTSx" STCs will need to have the requisite "READ" access to resource ID "STGADMIN.IGG.DEFDEL.UALIAS" in resource class ID "FACILITY"

Re: Automatic Alias Creation

2019-05-22 Thread John P. Baker
ing the SDBM backend "UPDATE" access to the ICF master catalog. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sasan Mirkhani Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 1:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Automatic Alias Creation Hi list, We're c