Re: SFTP in a batch job

You should really, really use public key authentication instead of user/passwords. Mark Jacobs Dana Mitchell mailto:mitchd...@gmail.com February 4, 2015 at 4:42 PM Hello All, We have a need to implement sftp transfers in place of some ftp batch jobs. I have installed IBM Ported Tools

Re: IKJ56220I max # of datasets reached

My first guess is that it's related to system resources needed to support dynamic allocation in a 24-bit address space of the time. Mark Jacobs Paul Gilmartin wrote: My first guess is that it's related to system resources needed to support dynamic allocation in a 24-bit address space of the

Re: AW: CICS 3.2 under z/OS 2.1?

CICS/TS 3.2 is supported until September 30, 2015. Mark Jacobs Christian Birr mailto:christian.b...@birrconsulting.de January 22, 2015 at 2:59 PM Works, but unsupported. ;-) Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im

Re: AW: CICS 3.2 under z/OS 2.1?

/os 2.1? Just curious: why to install old unsupported CICS under new shining z/OS? On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:18:58 -0500, Mark Jacobs - Listserv wrote: CICS/TS 3.2 is supported until September 30, 2015. CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V3.2 (5655-M15) is supported until 2015-12-31 http://www-01

z10 BC LPAR Capping question

This isn't my area of expertise, but I've been asked if we can define a capacity defined group and also have one of the members of the group have a hard cap enabled. This is on a z10 BC processor. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Technology and Product Engineering The standard you walk

Re: CA/Reclaim Question

to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Mark Jacobs - Listserv mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com February 11, 2015 at 11:27 PM We have a VSAM KSDS that was allocated and populated with data prior to the CA/Reclaim function being available. This evening we had to reorg the dataset

CA/Reclaim Question

We have a VSAM KSDS that was allocated and populated with data prior to the CA/Reclaim function being available. This evening we had to reorg the dataset, and the REPRO back used the same physical dataset with the REPLACE and REUSE options. Does this enable CA/RECLAIM for the dataset, or do

Re: APF-authorized calling non-authorized

V1R13 I believe. Mark Jacobs Charles Mills mailto:charl...@mcn.org March 16, 2015 at 11:34 AM ... any more, as of V2R1 (or was it V1R13)? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, March

Re: SDSF ISF121I message

Examine your IEFUSI exit. That'll have the final vote for virtual storage sizes for your non-authorized address spaces. BTW, 1MB for MEMLIMIT is very small. A reasonable size is more on the order of 4GB. Mark Jacobs Neal Eckhardt mailto:neckha...@cnyric.org March 30, 2015 at 2:34 PM We

Re: SDSF ISF121I message

Ok then. I still think that 1MB is way too small for MEMLIMIT. Is there a reason why you selected that value? Mark Jacobs Neal Eckhardt mailto:neckha...@cnyric.org March 30, 2015 at 3:08 PM We do not provide an IEFUSI exit. The standard IBM supplied dummy exit is all that there is in

Re: IDEAL SIZE OF VTOC VVDS FOR PAGE VOLUME

With one dataset (I'm assuming) on the volume, a one track VTOC is sufficient, and you really don't need an index on it either. Mark Jacobs John Dawes mailto:jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au March 31, 2015 at 9:48 AM G'Day, I have to initialise a 3390-9 volume as a PAGE volume. What would be the

Re: Strange LE / link list behaviour

My best guess is that the LE module when loaded into storage from an APF authorized library is loaded into a store protected subpool, and the program is attempting to alter the LE load module in error. What flavor of 0C4 are you getting? Mark Jacobs Ken MacKenzie

Re: Symbol in OMVS HOME directory?

Sorry, I misread your post. I'll see if I can find some information here. Mark Jacobs Dana Mitchell mailto:mitchd...@gmail.com March 3, 2015 at 1:52 PM Mark, I'm not sure what you mean I have: /etc/auto.master contains: /u /etc/u.map /etc/u.map contains: name * type ZFS filesystem

Re: Symbol in OMVS HOME directory?

Why aren't you using auto.master in /etc for automounting? It works like a charm, and is well documented. Mark Jacobs Dana Mitchell mailto:mitchd...@gmail.com March 3, 2015 at 1:35 PM I'm implementing automount for users' home directories where none existed before. I'd like to do something

Re: Symbol in OMVS HOME directory?

I found something in the Security Server RACF Security Administrators Guide, Enabling default OMVS segments processing that looks promising. Mark Jacobs Dana Mitchell mailto:mitchd...@gmail.com March 3, 2015 at 1:52 PM Mark, I'm not sure what you mean I have: /etc/auto.master contains:

Re: Cross-post from mvsoe - FOTS1842 problem renaming PRNG seedfile

You might want to consider upgrading ICSF to HCR77A1 or higher. If you do you'll be able to use the hardware based random number generator even if your processor doesn't have CryptoExpress cards installed. Mark Jacobs Dazzo, Matt mailto:00a854d4f854-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu April

Re: IBMLINK SR Down?

is a phish or aren't sure whether this message is trustworthy, please send the original message as an attachment to 'phish...@timeinc.com'. Mark Jacobs - Listserv mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com April 22, 2015 at 11:18 AM I'm getting an *Http/1.1 Service Unavailable* message when I try to enter

IBMLINK SR Down?

I'm getting an *Http/1.1 Service Unavailable* message when I try to enter the application. Is it just me? -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Technology and Product Engineering The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept. Lieutenant General David Morrison

Re: Maintenance to RSU1503 Problem

I just installed RSU1503 in a test system (zOS 1.13), and I'm not having any problems with ZFS. Mark Jacobs Pesce, Andy mailto:andy.pe...@autozone.com May 4, 2015 at 10:01 AM I didn't see an update from anyone on this. I updated a test machine to RSU1503. Now I am having issues with ZFS

Re: DFDSS QUESTION :

PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN is your friend. It'll syntax check your control cards and tell you what datasets will be processed, bit not actually process them. Mark Jacobs willie bunter mailto:001409bd2345-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu April 29, 2015 at 10:30 AM Good Day, I am attempting to back

Re: Security vulnerability for RSU updates

As a general rule, the higher the RSU level the more security and integrity fixes will be included. The only way you'll know for sure is to access IBM's portal and download the special holddata. https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/20130227.html Nathan Astle

Re: DFHSM and RLS

It's been several years since I've setup RLS, but I believe that there's two structures, one cache and one lock. I can look in the morning for confirmation. Mark Jacobs Lizette Koehler mailto:stars...@mindspring.com May 12, 2015 at 6:03 PM Just a quick question. When setting up the HSM xCDS

Re: Cross-post from mvsoe - FOTS1842 problem renaming PRNG seedfile

at this time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 7:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cross-post from mvsoe - FOTS1842 problem renaming PRNG seedfile

Re: Change ROOT without IPL

ALTROOT support is designed for the SYSPLEX root, not the VERSION root. If it actually does change the VERSION root, results are very predicable, i.e. nothing good. Mark Jacobs van der Grijn, Bart (B) mailto:bvandergr...@dow.com April 16, 2015 at 7:23 AM Jake, look for ALTROOT in the Unix

Assembler data types to JSON.

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.

IBM Orderservers

I've been receiving timeouts this morning when contacting the two IBM orderservers, https://eccgw02.rochester.ibm.com/ https://eccgw01.boulder.ibm.com Is anyone else having a problem? I contacted our network people and they're seeing traffic to those IP addresses from the mainframe when I

Re: IBM Orderservers

@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 10:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM Orderservers I've been receiving timeouts this morning when contacting the two IBM orderservers, https://eccgw02.rochester.ibm.com/ https://eccgw01.boulder.ibm.com Is anyone

Re: IBM Orderservers

Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 11:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Orderservers I tried that server and received an java ssl handshake exception error. Mark Jacobs

Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)

I don't remember the device number but it was used for CTC communications using bus and tag cables. Mark Jacobs Elardus Engelbrecht mailto:elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za June 12, 2015 at 9:53 AM I have watched that nice video, bringing back memories of those 3800, 3380, 3090, 3420 and such

Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)

Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 10:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s) I don't remember the device number

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

Could it have been shared(R/W) outside of a sysplex boundary? Mark Jacobs Thomas Berg mailto:thomas.b...@swedbank.se May 25, 2015 at 8:43 PM Got a corrupt PDSE. Will throw the problem at some of the responsible sysprogs. But in the meantime I wonder if any of the esteem members of this list

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

-MAIN Mark Jacobs - Listserv mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com May 25, 2015 at 9:09 PM Could it have been shared(R/W) outside of a sysplex boundary? Mark Jacobs Thomas Berg mailto:thomas.b...@swedbank.se May 25, 2015 at 8:43 PM Got a corrupt PDSE. Will throw the problem at some of the responsible

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Mark Jacobs - Listserv mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com May 25, 2015 at 9:50 PM Three more questions. 1. Do you have all the required toleration maintenance applied on your 1.13 system? 2. Does the hang occur on all systems in the sysplex or just one? 1. If only

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

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Re: Question on 3270 Devices

Try this. I get an email from them every so often and I know they have 3174's for sale Global Hardware Suppliers, Inc. 7595 Mariner Point North, Suite 101 Maple Grove, MN 55311 E-mail: mailto:donob...@comcast.netdonob...@comcast.net mailto:donob...@comcast.net Direct Phone: (763) 494-3559

Re: z/OS 2.2 announcement

I'd plan on putting in the order for zOS 2.1 not much later than mid-August. Mark Jacobs Gibney, David Allen,Jr mailto:gib...@wsu.edu July 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM Looks nice, won't run on my z9. I just spent awhile trying to find the definitive statement as to what date z/OS 2.1 will be withdrawn

Moving a Sysplex

Would a GDPS like solution work for moving a sysplex from here to there, where the there is over 1200 miles from here, without taking a sysplex outage? -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Technology and Product Engineering The standard you walk past, is the standard you accept. Lieutenant

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

I still have an entire box (2500) of unpunched punch cards at home. :) Mark Jacobs Connor Krukosky November 7, 2015 at 12:59 PM Hah awesome! I only have a few hundred punched cards at the moment, need to grab more once I get the 026 running so I can allow

Re: How to change SMS

Can't you just do an ALTER ADDVOLUMES(* * *) on that dataset? Mark Jacobs Bill Ashton October 30, 2015 at 1:34 PM Hi friends! One of our users is working with a file that is currently defined to a special Dataclass with 3 volumes (it is pretty full already). They

Re: Driving System for z/OS 2.1 ServerPac Install

The only concern I'd have is that certain jobs in the ServerPac use the target systems MIGLIB as a joblib/steplib. If those executed programs use instructions not available on the z990... It's probably not an issue however. Mark Jacobs Porowski, Ken October 30,

Re: How the determine dataset is PDSE

Looks like the ISITMGD macro/system service can ascertain if a dataset is a PDSE. Mark Jacobs Savor, Thomas (Norcross) October 5, 2015 at 2:44 PM Ok, I think I see DSNTYPE field can be returned from DYNALLOCif I can figure TEXT UNITS fields

Re: SSH Client

I think it's the function of the shell. My OMVS segment specifies /bin/tcsh which I find has more functionally that /bin/sh (which is the default shell). Mark Jacobs Mark Pace October 9, 2015 at 1:10 PM When I logon to a linux system I can start typing a

Re: Integrity APAR GIYF (not!?)

Google, or any public search engine (yourself included) isn't going to be able to find out information on integrity apars, since IBM keeps them very tightly wrapped internally. Once it closes and a PTF is available you'll be able to get some information from their security website. Mark

Re: Moving a Sysplex

RE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 11:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU S

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

Might be related to the number of devices defined to the environment. Are you talking about above or below private? Mark Jacobs Phil mailto:philyo...@gmail.com August 27, 2015 at 2:32 PM Hello All, What could cause private area to shrink 1M when the system is IPL'd on a different machine as

Re: JES2 - get system name without JCT addressability.

If your system naming conventions are consistent, JES2 Member Name == SMF ID == SYSNAME, you can easily get the SMF ID by looking in the SMCA. Mark Jacobs Leonardo Vaz September 1, 2015 at 3:22 PM Hello list! I am trying to get the name of the system where a JOB

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

This is the last week that Time Inc employees will be responsible for our zOS and zVM Tampa Data Center. Support and services is being outsourced to IBM and AT, and sometime in 2016 our mainframe LPARs will be moved to IBM's zCloud environment. I'm one of the few Data Center employees being

Re: OSMF server startup error

You're at base Java 7.0. Mine is at SR3 FP1. It says so in many places in the -version display. Mark Jacobs Mark Pace October 2, 2015 at 9:55 AM # /usr/lpp/java/J7.0_64/bin/java -version java version "1.7.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

We had an operator named Sheldon, who had the habit of resting his elbow on the POR? button on the console keyboard (3033 maybe). After this happened a couple of times we installed a pill box cover over the button and named it the "Sheldon Shield". Mark Jacobs J O Skip Robinson

Re: What does the 8th character of Load parm mean

It's less useful than it once was, and I don't see any need to use anything other than the default (1) any longer. IEANUC01, IEANUC11 and IEANUC21 are logically the same nucleus; IEANUC01, V=V Nucleus Modules IEANUC11, V=R Nucleus Modules, 31 Bit, not used any longer (Look at the length of

Re: What does the 8th character of Load parm mean

istserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Please be alert for any emails that may ask you for login information or directs you to login via a link. If you believe this message is a phish or aren't sure whether this message is trustworthy, please send the original message as an attach

Re: Testing SFM policy

Since Quiesce will put the system in a restartable wait state, I'd think that the XCF heartbeat would stop too. Mark Jacobs Jesse 1 Robinson June 6, 2016 at 7:32 PM I'd like to test my Sysplex Failure Management policy. The question is how to make a system

Re: HMC automation

BCPii services should be able to accomplish what you want. If you have Netview, and it's configured to do so, it can be your BCPii logic. Mark Jacobs Robert McElhaney June 27, 2016 at 11:45 AM I want to investigate CBU turn up for 2964-502 to 2964-407. I may

STP Question

We're moving from a three CEC configuration, with all STP rolls, Primary/Backup/Arbiter defined, to a singe CEC that's defined as the Primary, with no backup or arbiter defined to the STP network. I'm not seeing any additional risks, since we're already running in "all our eggs in one basket

Re: STP Question

[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: 20 January, 2016 13:15 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: STP Question It's being configured that way by our outsourcer, we no longer have control over the configuration. I agree with you, but wanted to see if there's

Re: STP Question

Yea, that was my thought too. Just wanted to ask around. Thanks. Mark Jacobs R.S. wrote: W dniu 2016-01-20 o 15:52, Mark Jacobs - Listserv pisze: Our LPARs are being hosted on a single CEC which also might include other client LPARs. All I'm seeing in operlog is that the STP timing network

Re: STP Question

is to coordinate time between the CECs. When you have only one, there is nothing to coordinate anymore. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: 19 January, 2016 21:06 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Re: Concatenation order in LPALST

It's not required but a good practice to have SYS1.LPALIB first in the LPALST unless you know what you're doing. Mark Jacobs Nathan Astle February 16, 2016 at 7:51 AM Hi, Apology for asking dummy question. Is there a reason on why we need to place Security

Re: ISPF library Full

Maybe instead of a customer option, use a RACF profile which would allow finer granularity on who and/or what datasets can be compressed with DISP=SHR Mark Jacobs Peter Relson April 1, 2016 at 8:24 AM In general, I'd change "probably" to "definitely". Of course

Re: PDS I/O Performance Improvement

Is it defined to VLF? Kreiter IBM-Main April 28, 2016 at 8:32 AM Hello, I'm looking for some suggestions on how to possibly improve I/O performance to a PDS. A user is running a job that is reading a large parmlib (through PROJCL I believe). I think

Re: ACEE user name

It might be cached in VLF. Mark Jacobs Jesse 1 Robinson August 13, 2016 at 1:05 PM We have a program that pulls the job owner's user name from the ACEE. In order to test a problem, I altered the user name in my own RACF profile. However, the ACEE in the batch

Re: CPACF DES/TDES enablement feature 3863 with no Co Processors/Express Cards

There should be no differences in ICSF setup in a CPACF only environment. ICSF will query the system at startup for available hardware support. Anything that can't be done either by CPACF machine instructions or via software emulation will fail. These failures mostly relate to secure/protected

Re: SFTP on z/OS

If you don't have CryptoExpress processors, but do have CPAF enabled on your processor/LPAR, you still might need ICSF active. I don't know off hand if ssh will directly use the CPAF facilities without ICSF being available. Mark Jacobs scott Ford February 4, 2017

Re: ICSF Question

The key labels are readable, so you know what keys are there. The field that describes what the key is used for, DATA, EXPORTER,... is also readable. What information are you looking to ascertain? Mark Jacobs Steely.Mark February 16, 2017 at 6:20 PM Is

MFA/2FA for RACF

We're looking at implementing MFA/2FA sometime in 2017. I know about IBM's product, found something from CA, and some references for Rocket Strong Authentication Expert for z/OS, but it's not on their web site any longer. Are there any other products out there? Not finding much on Google. --

Re: Job Loyalty

Almost 22 for me, 16 at my previous position. Mark Jacobs Frank Swarbrick February 10, 2017 at 6:53 PM I've been with my current employer for 25 years. But I will admit we're rather an anomaly these days! From: IBM

Re: z/OS V2R2 ZFS file system question

The numeric values in the owner and group fields of the directory entry are resolved into text from your security system. The UID value resolves back to IBMUSER and the GID to OMVSGRP. You can list the actual numeric values by using the ls command with the -n option. The #1 indicates that

Re: SAD testing in sysplex

If you vary the system out of the sysplex first it'll be put in a non-recoverable wait state. Your SAD test will certainly work, but you're testing it in a non-realistic scenario. A really good test of your total system environment would be to simulate a hard system crash and see how the

Re: SMP/E Receive FROMNETWORK

Have you setup ftps or https for SMP/E downloads? Lopez, Sharon September 14, 2016 at 4:08 PM We are trying to SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK and we are getting the message that SSL is mandatory. Does anyone have any sample JCL they would like to share? Did the entire

Re: Reloading a member of ELPA

MLPA is rather obsolete and can only be created at IPL. Mark Jacobs Steve September 26, 2016 at 10:50 AM Why not put it MLPA if its being called thousands of times a day? Steve Beaver st...@stevebeaver.com Office : 806-368-3859 Cell : 806-300-9481

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

I haven't looked, but maybe the UCB mapping macro. Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) September 22, 2016 at 1:08 PM Does anyone have any suggestions (or code) that will convert the DEVTYPE returned from a LISTC into something meaningful to a human? For example a LISTC for a

Re: Strange syslogd file name in name/token pair ezbsyslog

Just like when you notice a horrific spelling or grammatical error in a email right after you hit send. Been there, done that too. Mark Jacobs John McKown September 27, 2016 at 8:00 AM Damn, I hate it when I do this. I then found:

Re: Reloading a member of ELPA

True, it won't reuse the space in ELPA, but will use some space in ECSA for the new module. Unless you're very short on ECSA, it's not a concern to do so. Mark Jacobs Hilary Hurwitz September 26, 2016 at 6:44 AM Our shared Natural nucleus (SAG products site here)

Re: Can Someone Check Redbooks?

Looks like it for me too. George Rodriguez September 29, 2016 at 7:49 AM Is the http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ site down? *George Rodriguez* *Specialist II - IT Solutions* *IT Enterprise Applications* *PX - 47652* *(561) 357-7652 (office)* *(954)

Re: Problem with startup DB2

Restore the file system from the last good backup would be a good idea. Hilario Garcia November 10, 2016 at 5:53 AM Hello, After a hard stop of the partition, DB2 does not start and produces the following messages; -DB9G START DB2 S DB9GMSTR $HASP100 DB9GMSTR ON

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

Once the ICSF Master Keys are entered into the crypto domain after the first IPL of each system, they'll be there and ready when you IPL your DR system in the future. If you've changed the keys on the production side, you have to keep them in sync with the DR box too. Mark Jacobs Jesse 1

ICETOOL Question

Before I dig into the books, does anyone have an ICETOOL example that does this; Copy all records in a file has these fields B CCC D to a different file in this field order -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Global

Re: DFHSM query command from Console

F HSM,Q CDS Peter October 14, 2016 at 11:14 AM Hi Is it possible to query MCDS dataset usage from master console ? I apologize as I am new to DFHSM. Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

Unless you have a TKE, you will have to use the ICSF panels to enter the master keys. So yes, you'll need to IPL each image to do so. Just a heads up that if you perform ICSF Master Key changes (recommended), you might have to first enter the previous set of keys, then the current set. I can

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

If you're not creating any data encryption keys in the CKDS, then a one cylinder database is plenty of sapce. Mark Jacobs Dazzo, Matt October 19, 2016 at 11:46 AM RS, Kirk thanks. I was able to confirm from the SE that CPACF is enabled.

Re: IBM Java 8 SR2

They are yes. Mark Jacobs Vince Coen November 23, 2016 at 11:28 AM Are not the service pack cumulative ? E.g., SP3 has SP2 within. -- - IMPORTANT – This email and the information in it may be confidential, legally privileged and/or protected by law. It is

Re: ADMF?

ADMF was used to accelerate the movement of pages from expanded storage to real storage. With the demise of expanded storage, it's useless now. Here's the patent information. https://www.google.ch/patents/US5377337 Jesse 1 Robinson November 15, 2016 at 11:42

Re: z/OS 2.2 and z9

I'd expect a wait state. Mark Jacobs R.S. November 18, 2016 at 10:43 AM 1. As far as I know z/OS 2.2 will not run on z9 machine - is it true? 2. What message one can expect when trying to IPL the z/OS 2.2 on the z9? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland

IBM Software Support Services - Service Extension Question

Is IBM still building security and integrity fixes for out of support releases of zOS? If so, does having BM Software Support Services - Service Extension, aka IBM Lifecycle Extension for z/OS give you access rights to those PTFs? Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Global Technology Services

Re: Xposted from TCP/IP list SSL Problems, please help

WAG, Does TCP/IP have read access to the private key in the PKDS? CSFKEYS resource. Mark Jacobs Ward, Mike S October 27, 2016 at 12:33 PM Hello list I have a small problem that I was hoping I could get some help with. System is z/OS V1.13 running on a Z13s W01 soon

Re: DB2 Shutdown Problem

Check your SMF options, If DDCONS(NO) is not set, that may be your problem. Steve Carlson (Contractor) November 3, 2016 at 9:00 AM When trying to shut down the DB2 regions on our Development LPAR the DB2M1 regions are taking over 1 hour to shut down. I have also

Re: How set CVTLSO?

I believe that if you're using STP to control system time, it all happens automagically. Charles Mills October 11, 2016 at 9:42 AM Mostly a curiosity and "long-term" question: where do you set the leap second offset? Can it be set without an IPL? I searched System

Re: How set CVTLSO?

016 at 10:00 AM So could in fact change without an IPL? That is really the core of my curiosity. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 6:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LIST

Re: How set CVTLSO?

n fact change without an IPL? That is really the core of my curiosity. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 6:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: H

Re: How set CVTLSO?

ber 11, 2016 at 12:00 PM *Somebody* sets it ... who and how? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 8:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How set CVTL

Re: Load Module Trace, anyone?

I think that's been repacked as Tivoli Asset Manager. Mark Jacobs Lizette Koehler January 13, 2017 at 8:02 AM There is or used to be a product called SoftAudit by Isogon. I think IBM acquired it. It is able to provide module auditing functions. SoftAudit for

Re: Application Performance Tuning Products

Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Application Performance Tuning Products On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Mark Jacobs - Listse

Re: CONSOLE command failing - what else to check?

Does the falling user have an OPERPARM segment in their RACF profile? Todd Burrell August 16, 2017 at 11:52 AM I have 2 users and one can successfully execute the CONSOLE command while running it in a started task and in batch, but the other user cannot. From

Application Performance Tuning Products

Does anyone know of additional products for application performance tuning activities other than Strobe, TriTune, and IBM's Application Performance Analyzer. Just started looking today myself. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Global Technology Services The standard you walk past is the

CSVAPF Facility Class Profiles

I asked this on the RACF mailing list yesterday, didn't get a response, so I'm trying here next. I'm 99.9% confident that CSVAPF.dataset profiles aren't used during system IPL when datasets in the PROGxx member are added to the active APF list. Can someone confirm? -- *One grows tired of

Re: Security, Other Risks When Unsupported (Was: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post)

Been there too. Got the t-shirt and everything myself several times over a 38 year career. Mark Jacobs John McKown August 2, 2017 at 8:42 AM ​Hum, around here when I "poke my nose in where it doesn't belong", it tends to get whacked. My immediate manager

Re: SFTP From Linux to z/OS

That's a command when you're using the Co:Z Toolkit's sftp server. No zOS shop should be without it. Mark Jacobs Roach, Dennis May 2, 2017 at 2:32 PM This makes no sense. ls lists the directory at the remote end. The ls command you provided looks like it should

Re: SoftAudit ?

I think it was rebranded as Tivoli Asset Manager. Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) May 10, 2017 at 10:20 AM Whatever happened to SoftAudit from Isogon? Did IBM pick it up and rename it or did it die with the IBM acquisition? Are there any other products that will detect the

Re: Customer is Using CPACF (Crypto) purchased Crypto Express

d email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Mark Jacobs - Listserv <mailto:mark.jac...@custserv.com> June 12, 2017 at 8:01 AM Encryption/decryption without a CryptoExpress only supports clear keys, not protected or secured encryption keys. Might be enough for the OP, but wouldn't

Re: The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison

That's so cool. I'm a Facebook friend of the author. Mark Jacobs Mark Post May 19, 2017 at 12:27 PM On 5/19/2017 at 11:39 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: -snip- I noticed this: Original Article was at SUSE -snip-

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