Re: C-Code Library for SHA256, HMAC_SHA256, base64

2015-06-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
And if you use ICSF, it will exploit CPACF for SHA functions. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: The CSNBOWH function of ICSF will do SHA256. Perhaps other of your required functions are also available

Re: z/OS Systems Software Developer Position

2015-06-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
I do not claim to have deep knowledge of z/OS system internals, but since when is source code required to obtain it? I don't believe that the best Windows hackers have the source code...the very best don't even bother with disassemblers :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: Who is issuing debug messages in FTP job?

2015-06-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
FTP User exits? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halz001/ftpserveruserexits.htm Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Leonard Sasso wrote

Re: Assembler data types to JSON.

2015-05-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
: JZOS Record Generator 2.4.6 which has jzos_recgen_2.4.6.zip. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 1:01 PM, Denis Gäbler denisgaeb...@netscape.net wrote: You can use the jzos record generator which is part of the java sdk for z/os. It generates java

Ideas for hash of a sequential data set

2015-08-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
-informative (the data set could still have changed, although not likely) a part 1 mismatch would tell me that most probably the data set has changed (or just moved?). I would then have to read the entire data set to determine if it really has changed. Thoughts? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: Ideas for hash of a sequential data set

2015-08-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
alone. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I've given a bunch of thought to this. One of the things I've thought about was storing a hash of the first 'n' bytes or records of the dataset. If that changed

Re: Ideas for hash of a sequential data set

2015-08-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
common changes to the end Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Right. That's a better idea. Seek to end minus 'n' and go from there. Only small negative is that if you did the first 'n' bytes

Re: opinion? LISTCAT (equivalent) with XML / JSON output

2015-07-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
You could use the IGGCSI00 Java wrapper that is already in the z/OS Java SDK: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/SSYKE2_8.0.0/com.ibm.java.zsecurity.api.80.doc/com.ibm.jzos/com/ibm/jzos/CatalogSearch.html It allows full access to IGGCSI00 functionality. Kirk Wolf

Re: 3DES encryption using ICSF callable services

2015-11-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Also, the ICSF CIPHER calls require SAF authorization whereas the CPACF instructions do not require special permissions. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: > On 13 November 2015 at 02:27, Timoth

Re: 3DES encryption using ICSF callable services

2015-11-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
Someone from IBM can confirm, but I believe that the CPACF processor feature code (I believe #3083) is disabled on machines shipped to countries where it is restricted. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dm

Re: Java and .jar files on OMVS

2015-11-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
BTW: the scp included in IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH always does ASCII-EBCDIC conversion. You would need to use sftp if you want binary. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote: &g

Re: Java and .jar files on OMVS

2015-11-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
"cksum" on z/OS Unix and Linux are compatible. See: "man cksum" on z/OS for details on the algorithms that it uses so that you can find a Windows/Mac/etc version that is compatible. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 11:4

Re: Java and .jar files on OMVS

2015-11-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
RE: "On the other hand, scp, which possesses the -r (recursive directory/subdir copy)..." recent versions of OpenSSH sftp client now support recursive directory processing. This includes IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH 1.3 and Co:Z SFTP 3.5.1 which are both based on OpenSSH 6.4p1.

Re: Java and .jar files on OMVS

2015-11-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
cts/sftp.html> with IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:07:13 -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > > >&

Way to change a PROC to add a concatenation to existing DD?

2015-09-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
existing STDENV DD to it and then free STDENV and then reallocate the concatenation Thanks in advance for any better suggestions. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Way to change a PROC to add a concatenation to existing DD?

2015-09-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
Thanks guys. I had no idea that you could override a PROC concatenation this way. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Bob Rutledge <rlrutle...@sherwin.com> wrote: > I'd use > > //STDENV DD DDNAME=STDENV > //

Re: Employees exposed to direct enforcement actions (WAS Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control

2015-09-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Congratulations, Timothy. Your partisan political spew has earned you a place in my spam filter. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > >>We have only to look > >>at the acti

Re: AW: Re: Ported tools and z/OS 2.2

2015-09-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Peter's post is only partially correct. It is true that Perl and PHP have been moved to Rocket. As Steve says, z/OS OpenSSH has not been removed from marketing, and it will be a base feature of z/OS starting in z/OS 2.2. Also, the Apache web server is still available from IBM. Kirk Wolf

Re: What's a "ton" of JCL? [was:RE: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?]

2015-12-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
xplain to the corporate guy how he had been suckered. Cheers, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: managing /tmp

2015-12-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Here are some notes in the appendix of our quick-guide for setting up IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH that mention "Best practices" for managing /tmp space. Any ideas or suggestions for improvement are appreciated. http://dovetail.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/pto-inst-tmp.html Kirk Wolf

Re: OpenSSH has had bugs in the news. (Was rsync anyone?)

2015-12-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
defects and vulnerabilities. OpenSSH (which does NOT use SSL/TLS) is generally much better than alternatives like OpenSSL or other popular SSL/TLS implementations. (e.g. "Heartbleed", "Poodle", "FREAK", etc) 2) IBM monitors CVEs against OpenSSH and releases PTFs to addres

Re: rsync anyone?

2015-12-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
> > ... However, OpenSSH has had security issues IIRC. ... What security issues are those? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-11-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
Charles, I agree that there should be a compiler or LE API to do this. If not: ARCH levels actually map to a set of required "Facilities" (the Principles of Operation term). You can test at the facility bits in the PSAE, mapped by IHAFACL. Then you could use the documentation on ARCH in the

Re: Accessing RESTful services from a z/OS batch job

2015-11-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Bigendian Smalls < mainfr...@bigendiansmalls.com> wrote: > Agreed on lua from what I've seen it seems like a fairly competent > language (mostly I've see it from the backside of wireshark/nmap).

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-11-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
FYI, I noticed that there are some cut/paste errors in the comments (only) for ARCH(7) and ARCH(8). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Wow! Thanks! > > And all written in S/360 asse

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-11-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
the current machine. * *Call with standard system linkage; RC=R15 is the ARCH level. * *References: * IBM C/C++ User's Guide * Principles of Operation * IHAFACL macro comments * *Version: November 28, 2015 * *Please report bugs or enhancements to author

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-11-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
And, , could only give you information about the machine that you were assembling on, not the one that you were running on. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > I am not a LOADXX guru but l

Re: ICSF callable service error SMP/e

2015-11-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
, but that is not typical. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:51:00 -0500, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: > > >> Still not sure why smp/e is trying

Re: Accessing RESTful services from a z/OS batch job

2015-11-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
tween the client and server programs Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: > What are you using to perform this function? > >

Re: SFTP Compression

2016-06-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
Marc is correct. Also, if you have z/OS V2R2 OpenSSH and a zEDC card, you can do this: cozsftp -C -ozEDCCompression=yes user@host (you would have to authorize the user to use zEDC using SAF/RACF) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Marc

Re: SFTP Compression

2016-06-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
David, I think that what you are seeing is a packaging problem. See this APAR: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=isg1OA50517 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 5:52 AM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Proper way to resolve existing GDG GnnnVnnn by relative reference

2016-05-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
- I always want the "latest" table (for BPXWDYN, this is "GDGNT" ) Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Proper way to resolve existing GDG GnnnVnnn by relative reference

2016-05-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
Just figure out that LOCATE seems to handle it. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: > I want to resolve an existing GnnnVnn for a GDG using a (0) or (-n) > reference, but in this case

Re: Displaying Users and Processes for UNIX z/OS Functions

2016-06-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
On z/OS 2.1 or later, you can use this command: zlsof -d /tmp Other commands and suggestions for managing /tmp can be found here: http://dovetail.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/pto-inst-tmp.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 2:03 AM, Peter Hunkeler &l

Re: Proper way to resolve existing GDG GnnnVnnn by relative reference

2016-05-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
catsearch just prints output in the order received from IGGCSI00. I have confirmed that LOCATE resolves existing relative GDG references correctly. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:18 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: &g

Re: BPX.SMF misuse?

2016-05-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
I agree with the OP's suggestion that there should be fine grained control to allow unauthorized jobs to write certain types of SMF records. Perhaps a BPX.SMF.TYPxx resource? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Andrew Rowley

Re: BPX.SMF misuse?

2016-05-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
Seems to. I wasn't aware that this was available. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Andy Higgins <ahigg...@transunion.com> wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2016 08:39:04 -0500, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: > > &

Re: Windows based editor / reformatter for DOS/VSE JCL?

2016-06-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Watch out, Gil - Complaining that a 6MB Java program is "massive" tends to date you :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 0

Re: Java (was: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST)

2016-02-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
. For BPXBATCH, it will be in a forked OMVS address space. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:03 AM, Scott Chapman < scott.chap...@epstrategies.com> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:41:52 +1100, Andrew Rowley < > and...@blackhillsoftware.com> wrot

Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code

2016-02-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
But does IEFBR14 do this? :-) // EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,PARM='--help' Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > John McKown wrote: > > >I'm sure we've all seen

Re: Unix support of symbols in .profile

2016-02-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
more likely your "[" is in the wrong code page. Since many z/OS people don't switch their TN3270 emulators from 037 and use 1047 (the default for z/OS Unix), I often avoid brackets and braces in shell scripts and do this: if test ! -f file; then .. fi Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technol

Re: IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny?

2016-02-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
}' // COZBATCH is available free under our Community license. See: http://dovetail.com/products/cozbatch.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote: > That's great stuff, and how mainframe met

Re: Unix support of symbols in .profile

2016-02-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
m variables that are defined in the IEASYMxx member of SYS1.PARMLIB or in the system IPL parameters. The substitution text is printed to standard output (stdout). This could be used to substitute system variables in shell variables. For example: system_name=$(sysvar SYSNAME) Kirk Wo

Re: z/OS 2.2 3270 OMVS ssh masks passwords!

2016-01-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
) But the above behavior is still a big improvement: you can now do basic connectivity tests and anything else as long as you don't need to prompt for a password. So keys work fine. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin

Re: z/OS 2.2 3270 OMVS ssh masks passwords!

2016-01-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
Hi Gil, I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are referring to? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Really! At last! > > Many years ago I submitted

Re: Linking C module with SSL

2016-03-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
POSIX(ON) vs POSIX(OFF) coexistence is a constant PITA. There are two separate LE environments, why in the world can't they each have their own POSIX-ness? For example: Try to run an LE program as an ISPF dialog with POSIX(ON) and you'll find that it is impossible. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
TER (if you can find it). (sorry David, it's Friday :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Robert Prins <robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-03-10 13:45, David Crayford wrote: > >> We're building a new product which w

Re: The many faces of SDSF - Terminal, Batch, REXX, and JAVA

2016-03-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
/IZUHPINFO_API_RESTJOBS.htm Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> wrote: > Just a brief synopsis. How many ways do you know how to use SDSF? > > There are two manuals that can provide information on the fol

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
-781f90169bd3 Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> The JZOS RecordReader (for eligible data sets) uses a JNI library that uses best-practices BSAM techniques for efficiently reading sequential data sets. The JNI interface is block-level, rather than record-level, which he

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
to architect them better using Java. As everyone knows, using Java is no silver bullet. Many times Java just allows bad programmers to make an even bigger mess of things. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:01 PM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com>

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-04-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
> > I looked at the RecordGenerator, but I have my own process to do a similar > thing. It's actually a bit more complicated because the DSECTS don't > contain the full data type information. I am converting STCK values to > java.time.ZonedDateTime, SMF date fields to java.time.LocalDate, CPU time

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-04-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
JZOS DFSort integration was pursued many years ago :-) http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/nl/en-us/SSYKE2_6.0.0/com.ibm.java.zsecurity.api.60.doc/com.ibm.jzos/com/ibm/jzos/DfSort.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 5:59 AM

Re: ICSF public key extraction.

2016-04-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
Check out the gsk_* apis in: z/OS Cryptographic Services System SSL Programming SC14-7495-00 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Ward, Mike S <mw...@ssfcu.org> wrote: > Hello all, for all of you that are ICSF experts. I have bee

Re: TSO command from Microsoft Windows

2016-04-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.izua700/izuprog_API_TSOServices.htm Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Martin Packer <martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com> wrote: > Naïve question (as one who does i

Re: ICSF public key extraction.

2016-04-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ichd100/datalib.htm Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Ward, Mike S <mw...@ssfcu.org> wrote: > Does not seem to be assembler friendly, or am I missing something? > > -Original Message- > From

Re: fopen() errno=41 errno2=0xc00a0022 last_op=111 errorCode=0xfe0000

2016-07-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/ Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Steve Austin <steve.aus...@macro4.com> wrote: > Thanks for this Kirk, > > I ran up a C program and got the same error for a VRRDS. I guess the VRRDS > type i

Re: fopen() errno=41 errno2=0xc00a0022 last_op=111 errorCode=0xfe0000

2016-07-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
t I can see. Best to open an ETR with IBM z/OS Language Environment Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Steve Austin <steve.aus...@macro4.com> wrote: > EDC5041I An error was detected at the system level when opening a file.; > err

Re: Delta Outage

2016-08-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
Regardless of the technology choice, it would be nice if there were enough competition in the US airline industry such that you could choose an airline with a hot DR plan that they regularly exercise. IMO this is evidence that the heavy regulatory environment is of little actual value. Kirk Wolf

Re: git on z/OS

2016-08-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gil, You think that Enhanced ASCII support in z/OS is crap? I've never heard that before :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:16

Re: git on z/OS

2016-08-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
e anywhere that is vigorously secure and backed up. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: > On 8/10/2016 6:16 AM, Jerry Callen wrote: > >> Meanwhile: I use git with z/OS using the &quo

Re: git on z/OS

2016-08-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
Agreed - Rocket's work to port updated tools to z/OS is great. I believe that they have a paid support model, which hopefully will be embraced by the community so that they can justify even more good work. Regarding System R, you can also run this from z/OS batch using the Co:Z Launcher

Re: DFSORT and zIIP

2016-07-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
IOW, if enough customers were to switch to a competitive zIIP-enabled sort product, the technical issues might magically be solved ;-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>

Re: Knowledge Center C/C++ RTL Unicode

2016-08-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
oking" characters. I tried this on the the messed up example in the C++ RTL and it does correct the goofy slashes. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > John McKown wrote: > >> that publ

Re: Multithreaded output to stderr and stdout

2016-06-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
) ? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Possible RFE: OMVS PDS-member serialization?

2016-06-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
(write) 3) support for DISP=SHR plus ISPF Enqueue serialization The first two of these cannot be easily worked around by user code without completely abandoning the use of the C-library for I/O. == Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: IBM's Australian cloud is in deep dodo

2016-08-15 Thread Kirk Wolf
ode, but not because of efficiency. Better choices are generally less-efficient than "C", but thankfully the efficiency of an application rarely depends on the programming language. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Clem Clarke <cl

Re: JZOS calling a 64 bit class

2016-08-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
rchitecture specific. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: > On 8/17/2016 5:17 PM, Janet Graff wrote: > >> My STEPLIB only contains JVMLDM60 so I'll get with the sysprogs to get >> t

Re: SFTP on z/OS

2017-02-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > ... > > >You can also have ssh display the "ascii art" fingerprint of public key(s) > >for visual verification: > > > Transmitted independently and securely. Courier pouch? > > Remember

Re: SFTP on z/OS

2017-02-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
d run ICSF with CPACF, since it will save you a bunch of CPU cycles. See on of the z/OS OpenSSH "Quick Install" Guides here (depending on your version): http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/coz_index.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at

Re: SFTP on z/OS

2017-02-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 5:48 AM, Jantje. <jan.moeyers...@gfi.be> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:51:23 -0600, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: > > >> Remember that although the integrity of public keys needs to be gua

Re: SFTP on z/OS

2017-01-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
.com host3.com > known_hosts Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 10:45:28 +0300, venkat kulkarni wrote: > > >Thanks for re

Re: SFTP on z/OS

2017-01-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
uthentication, which with supporting partners will handle both user and host authentication and eliminates both SSH host and user keys. https://dovetail.com/docs/ssh/kerberos_sso.pdf Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Paul Gilmartin <

Re: SFTP on z/OS

2017-01-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
f And see that "mput" is not a valid sftp subcommand. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> If you are going to be at SHARE in March, check out our session: - *Join us at SHARE in San Jose* Thursday, March 09, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Finding the Needle in a Hayst

Re: Blockchain

2017-01-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
Yeah, that was the early comment where I thought it was going to be silly. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Great! (Except for the "some of it running on 1970's mainframes.&

Re: Blockchain

2017-01-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
nsense. But I'm sure that IBM would love it if customers tried this (without zIIP enabled code) :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> Bitcoin mining (SHA-256 hashing) is not floating point. Its about 1000 simple operations like and/or/xor/not, shift, rotate, addition

Re: Blockchain

2017-01-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
justified based on performance of the mining code. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: > Are there z13 benchmarks for Bitcoin mining? How many profitable Bitcoin > miners are running z13s? (I

Re: Blockchain

2017-01-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
instructions, but it would not be competitive with even a modestly priced GPU card for bitcoin mining. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Todd Arnold <arno...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Kirk, you don't need to program the SHA-256 algorithm in softwa

Re: Blockchain

2017-01-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
, the "AntMiner 9" does 14 trillion double SHA-256 hashes per second. I believe that Bitcoin mining involves finding a nonce (random number) that solves to a given hash on a small piece of data. So block sizes are always small. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://do

Re: New free / open source z/OS tools from Dovetailed Technologies

2017-01-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
Scott, Right, this is how we use it, except with C/C++/Java/Assembler and no Cobol. If you are familiar with make, you might also try invoking make via ant-ssh in the same connection, which is how we do it. The z/OS "cob2" shell command can be used to run the Cobol compier. Kirk Wolf

IBM OpenSSH 1.3 or later - bug in OpenSSL AES*-CTR ciphers

2017-01-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
of saving you up to 50% of the CPU costs of OpenSSH. See our IBM OpenSSH Quick Install Guide "Exploiting ICSF Acceleration" https://dovetail.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/index.html for details Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://do

Re: New free / open source z/OS tools from Dovetailed Technologies

2017-01-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
our ssh private user keys in our desktop password safe) - run remote z/OS commands via ssh (like make) - submit JCL, wait for jobs to run, retrieve output (via Co:Z SFTP) (you can also use other Ant tasks to parse downloaded JES* spool files and check return codes) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: New free / open source z/OS tools from Dovetailed Technologies

2017-01-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
completion - download selected job spool files - then use other Ant tasks to parse spool file, check step CC, etc. (See: https://dovetail.com/docs/sftp/using.html#server_jes - any of these commands can be included in actions) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jan 18

Re: New free / open source z/OS tools from Dovetailed Technologies

2017-01-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
NFS seems like a good option if you can deal with connectivity and security issues. Are you running Kerberos enabled NFS over IPSec? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>

Re: ZPDT usb issue after lunux update.

2017-01-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
Is this issue not analogous to "I made changes on my z/OS system, and now some critical software product is broken?" In that case, you would use SMP/E or volume backups to go back. Isn't linux essentially the same (only different)? For my Linux desktop (Ubuntu), with the package manager

Re: Blockchain

2017-01-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
end lead me to think that there might be some there there. https://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_how_the_blockchain_is_changing_money_and_business Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> I'm still not clear on why a central "blockchain" server (internal to an

Re: RACF and public keys

2017-03-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
/SessionDetails.aspx?FromPage=Sessions.aspx=1900=20 For this particular issue (file permissions), see slide 45 of the presentation Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On W

Re: Ping issue

2016-09-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
I believe that this means that you have Comm Server NETACCESS SAF rules in place that are preventing your userid from sending data to this network address. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Veerendra H <kumarsyste...@gmail.com> wrote:

Re: A Programing language called Scala?

2016-09-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
are not part of the "Java language") - would you argue that those are not zAAP eligible? If you are really worried, then open an ETR or get an IBM representative to clarify the eligibility terms. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Tony

Re: JZOS calling a 64 bit class

2016-08-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
the JVMLDMx6 module in the "mvstools" subdirectory. You can use this by copying this to your own PDSE load module library: cp -X JVMLDM76 "//'HLQ.MY.PDSE.LOADLIB'" Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Janet Graff <

How to obtain diagnostics for EDC5241S Load request for fetch load module unsuccessful?

2016-08-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
err, but there are no additional messages or information in the job log. - there are no additional error messages in the z/OS syslog - how do you obtain the information as suggested for reason code C407003B? Any help would be appreciated. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.

Re: Just when you thought it was really dead

2016-10-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
Is this new RPG cloud and analytics enabled? :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > Can OORPG be far behind? > > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: IBM M

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

2016-10-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gil, ssh-rand-helper is no longer supported as of P.T. OpenSSH 1.3, or z/OS OpenSSH 2.2. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 10:20:16 -0

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

2016-10-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
CPACF if I can figure out how to > get ICSF running to use it. > > Kirk Wolf wrote: > >> Have you looked at our Quick Start guide for installing and tuning z/OS >> 2.2 >> OpenSSH? >> https://dovetail.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/index.html >> >> yo

Re: Does JZOS DFSORT get offloaded to a zIIP?

2016-10-14 Thread Kirk Wolf
JZOS does have native code (not byte code) that is part of the JVM which is zIIP eligible. The JZOS DFSORT wrapper spawns DFSORT in a separate process, which is not part of the JVM and is therefore not zIIP eligible. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Oct 14, 2016

Re: Intrdr (and IEC141I 013-6)

2016-10-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
/IZUHPINFO_API_PutSubmitJob.htm Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:59 PM, scott Ford <idfli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gil, > > Wow, it proves the point the Intrdr can handle bigger records. > > On Wednesday, October 19, 2016, Paul Gilmartin < >

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

2016-10-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
Right. I've never seen this particular error caused by a missing CPACF feature. More likely either ICSF is not started or the correct userids do not have access to the necessary ICSF features via SAF/RACF. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:13 AM

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

2016-10-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
Have you looked at our Quick Start guide for installing and tuning z/OS 2.2 OpenSSH? https://dovetail.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/index.html your question I believe is covered in section "1.6 Using ICSF and /dev/random" Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Oc

Re: TSO Setup on SSH

2016-11-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
erworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker > > Podcast Series (With Marna Walle): https://developer.ibm.com/tv/mpt/or > > https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/mainframe-performance- > topics/id1127943573?mt=2 > > > > From: Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> > To:

Re: TSO Setup on SSH

2016-11-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
en it starts x3270 with a automation script that connects through the ssh tunnel and automatically logs on to TSO using the passticket. Kirk Wolf http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

Re: TSO Setup on SSH

2016-11-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
There are a bunch of pieces that I would have to externalize; maybe some day. I don't really find x3270 all that objectionable. Its fairly easy to customize and the scripting works fine. Granted, I don't use it that much; most of my z/OS work is from a shell. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

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