Well, removed except when it wasn't; there were caveats.
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COPYMOD is for load module reblocking. There are no load modules in a PDSE. Off
the top of my head I don't even recall whether it is valid for program objects.
The COPY statement should work fine for PDSE.
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tween jobs.
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Jesse 1 Robinson
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Subject: Re: mainframe hacking "success stories
There were documented cases where you still needed an explicit block size for
the for the concatenation. Based on the OP, it would appear that there still
are.
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library and copy members
from a load library, but Fetch would not be able to load them.
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Blake, Daniel J [CTR] <00f1be92566d-dmarc-requ...@l
Well, I knew hw to crack SVS 40 years ago, and I reported a security issue much
more recently that allowed an operator to delete or overwrite data sets that
he didn't have access to.
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From
How will knowledge of control blocks, SVCs, etc., allow you to escalate your
privileges beyond those assigned to your userid and groupid?
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1964? What is the 7090, chopped liver?
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T
. why MVS users nowadays need special authority to create a program dump.
?
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hmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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I was really talki
cript way back when.
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Subje
RACF database unprotected? That's not a properly secured system, any more than
one with default passwords is.
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Sent: Monday
The post quoted a message citing the block size. The obvious fix is
BLKSIZE=32760, not BLKSIZE=0.
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The quoted text refers to controlled programs, which are not what users
normally run.
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To: IBM
BLKSIZE is intended for writing new datasets. If you're reading an existing
dataset then SDB isn't applicable.
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Paul Gilmartin <000
Remember that half of all security administrators are below average. Even when
they are competent, there may be management directives that prevent them from
properly securing the system. BTDT,GTS (no tee shirt, just the scars.)
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authorized access was obtained in order to
prevent it from happening again. If you're a judge or juror then it's important
to know how access was obtained in order to decide how to assess liability. The
only context in which how isn't paramount is for the people doing spin control.
I don't know where to begin, but it reads like buzzword bingo. How many of the
errors can you spot?
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ssues at the same time, is worse than useless.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 10:58 AM
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Subjec
> To my understanding they are just a target lib and distribution library.
Yes, which is why they are not 9nterchangable. If you want macros from the
running system, use MODGEN and MTS; if you want only the accepted service, use
AMODGEN.
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PROFS uses Script; AFAIK it doesn't format documents itself.
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Phil Smith III
Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 11:03 PM
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There are two very different questions.
1. Is it safe to run multilevel security on this platform?
2. Is it safe to run multilevel security at this site?
If the answer to the second question is no, then the answer to the first is
irrelevant.
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Of course, some documents would no longer work, so you need management buyin to
secure things.
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Gabe Goldberg
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 12:31
4. Get management buy in to fix the problems they find, if any.
5. Even if they find nothing, repeat the pen test periodically.
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Charles Mills
"That is not new, it has already been, for there is nothing new under the Sun."
There have been extensive discussions here over the decades about bad auditors.
OTOH, if you're lucky enough to have competent auditors, they can really help.
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Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 5:46 PM
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Y
What happens if you pre-allocate the file as FB 80 and do a binary FTP?
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Yes, but you can FTP to an MVS file, which you can allocate with attributes.
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The examples don't address the question. However, elsewhere there is a warning
not to use COPY for program objects.
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esmie moo <0127
Not quite; the binary option is relevant to step 1. I was assuming just doing a
binary FTP to an MVS datset and using that for the RECEIVE, but if you insist
on both an MVS data set and an OMVS file, then the binary goes on step 11 and
the attibue goes on step 2.
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TP to an OMVS file and then copy it to an MVS
dataset, then he still needs binary on the FTP.
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When you write "z/VM", do you mean RSCS or the z/VM SMTP?
IAC, you might consider adding DCB options to XMITIP to control the format of
the SPOOL file.
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e INDD and OUTDD data sets are both PDSs,
COPYGROUP can only be used if the INDD and OUTDD data sets have the same
blocksize." and "If the COPY statement is used to copy program objects, errors
can occur."
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__
Don't you MIME encode the dataset attached to the e-mail? Or are you saying
that the user have VB message text along with the file to be transmitted?
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> And yes, it was a z/OS vulnerability.
Are you saying that Bob Bridges was wrong when he wrote "The stolen ID also had
read access to the RACF database.."? It's not a vulnerability of the lock when
you leave your key on the porch for anyone to use.
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Any customer who discovers a security bug can report it. BTDT,GTTS (just the
tee shirt, no scars.)
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Losee
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 4:21 PM
Configuration control is easier if everything in a target library gets there
through SMP.
IMHO documentation should precede implementation, with n immediate update if
anything changes. I've heard that there's a round tuit shortage.
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> Yes, that assertion is incorrect. Read my post.
The only thing that I see that is relevant is where you quoted "There are also
solid indications that they downloaded the RACF database (about 28MB", which
certainly seems consistent with Bob's claim.
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Couldn't you grant the access only through PADS?
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STIDP
STFL
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Subject: Machine or O/S (z/os) instruction to recognize
Concatenation of FB and VB isn't going to work. I prefer VB, but changing it
after the fact is a user hostile move.
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Sent: Sunday
SPARC? I was shocked when I found out that the failure of a sing processor
could bring Solaris down.
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Phil Smith III
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2019 2
Physical security and software security are important, but so are procedures
and processes. If, e.g., you use default passwords, your personal can be taken
in by sicial engineering, then you're toast no matter how good your OS is.
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BTDT,GTS. See if you can get an indemnification clause in the contract for
failure to provide temporary keys within the promised window.
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Laurence
c 'sing' 'single'
It may happen with m$ but it doesn't happen with z/OS and I suspect that it
doesn't happen with Linux (anyone here know what RAS Linux has?)
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From:
obust.
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That's a concatenation of PS datasets, which {B|S]SAM can handle if you set the
unlike attributes bit. For a concatenation of PO you'd need to use EXCP.
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SMPE has supported RECFM=VB elements since Old Man Noach cornered the market
in Gopher Wood.
While access methods don't support PO concatenation of FB and VB, a bit of REXX
coding using, e.g., LIBDEF, can greatly alleviate the problem.
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You could charge $1,000 for the modified source but the purchaser would have
the right to give copies away as long as he complied with the license.
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Subject: LE question
All:
I need to do some research on how job is cancell
> The first device to support "disconnect" was the 3330
No; the 3330 was a Johnny come lately. The first device such was the 2305 fixed
head disk attached to the 2835 controller.
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device, e.g., IFA, ISC.
The 3830 or 3880 was the CU, since it was what connected to the channel.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 8:59 AM
To: IBM
That may be true for 2314, but it is not true for anything later. The A unit
connects to the control unit, not to the channel.
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Sent
Well, for some devices the CU and device were in the same box, e.g., 2501.
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To: IBM-MAIN
> Disk, tape, and unit record devices of the same era had discrete controllers.
Some did, but not all.
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Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2
Some legacy devices, e.g., 1301, had external controllers, e.g., 7631.
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Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 3:34 PM
To: IBM-MAIN
T A unit attached to a CU; it was the CU that attached directly to the channel.
There is some overloaded nomenclature here; the control function of an A unit
is entirely different from a control unit.
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3350 models C2 and C2F were tail of string units. As I recall, for 3375 the C
boxes included a control unit so it could attach directly to the channel.
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Copy and rename.
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Subject: Convert ZFS to Expanded format
Hi,
Is
It turns out that it's the 3380 that has a model, CJ2, for direct attach to the
channel. They say that the memory is the second thing to go.
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rticular type of I/O you want to use, don't even think about it.
But it's not my dog.
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e.g., TEST.
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Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 1:32 PM
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Subject: Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP
is a pipe, everything looks like filter.
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Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 12:57 PM
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updates is
common in the open source world.
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Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 11:09 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Comparing
tions?
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Sent: Monday, May 20, 2019 12:37 AM
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Subject: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E /
one of them can deal
with your manuals.
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On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 7:56 PM Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
> Doesn't bitsavers have a huge backlog? I'm still waiting for manuals I gave
> several years ago to show up on their site. In particular I'm still waiting
> for the
d emulator programs.
Does the Airlines Buffer qualify as oddball?
There's really nothing that I want to keep on dead trees as long as I retain
access to the information and can cite the manuals in Wikipedia articles.
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It was in the era when IBM was talking about cardleds systems.
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Sent: Wednesday
guess is that you did not invoke your code from a Unix shell and that 0 was
the first available file descriptor. If that is the case then you might want to
open STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR at the beginning of your code.
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The formatting of the messages is a console function, not a JES function, and
is driven by parameters on the WTO macro and by how you are configured. One of
the options is ulti-line WTO and, AFAIK, there is no COBOL support for it.
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All of the discussion of the 3540 reminded me of some older devices. Does
anybody remember IEBCTRIN? How about the key-to-tape devices from UNIVAC back
in the 1950s?
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of 0 is what I would expect
calling the code from ISPF.
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Sent: Thursday, May 1
That's putting the CART before the horse. The problem isn't issuing the
command, but waiting for initialization to complete.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of
Jou
ccount for the LF or NL
characters, unless the application is reading it as binary. The one exception
is that if it is a valid FBS dataset then you can calculate the size.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discu
Neither of those address the OP's question: how to issue the command AND WAIT
for the configuration change to take effect.
Oh, BTW, "CART before the horse" was a pun that already referred to CONSOLE,
but CONSOLE by itself doesn't solve the problem.
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> The OP's command is not valid REXX. However, the original code was
'open' path,
O_rdwr+O_creat+O_trunc,
755
and *that* is valid; the commas are continuation characters.
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It is very common for someone with a problem to assume that it has to be fixed
in a certain way, and to ask about that way rather than the actual problem.
Asking for clarification never hurts, and often helps.
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listing; sometimes the latter isn't what I expect it to be, and that
can help pinpoint the problem.
But I'm preaching to the quire.
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That wasn't what he wrote, but I agree that it could have been phrased better.
Still, the question is relevant; if we (TINW) knew why the OP was asking and
what was behind his question, we would be better positioned to address the
underlying problem.
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Because the information that he's asking for isn't in the catalog.
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Sent: Thursd
J.) Metz
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Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 6:43 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Activate SMS configuration in batch
I was giving my CONDOLEnces to the CONSOLE. BTW, that wasn't the only typo.
It was the keyboard. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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erent from what he asked for.
Several people have asked him to clarify that point, but he hasn't chosen to do
so.
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Ger
If TSSO still works, its price is attractive.
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Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 5:23 PM
I'd probably use TSSO, but there are many options. The important part is to
know what messages to watch for.
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Doug
I've got it now.
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Farley, Peter x23353 [peter.far...@broadridge.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 6:10 PM
To: IBM
nd?
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Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 8:23 PM
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Subject: USS: su: User ID "SH" does not exist
Hi,
B
The OP didn't ask for a size in tracks and didn't ask for an approximation. All
of this is guesswork unless and until he knows more and is allowed to tell us.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discu
ITYM \ at the end is a continuation.
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David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 8:47 AM
To: IBM
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Joel C. Ewing [jcew...@acm.org]
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 9:13 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: USS: su: User ID
Possibly, but ; is definitely a command separator character, not a continuation
character.
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David Crayford [dcrayf
, the string is
divided not only at line boundaries but also at horizontal white space within a
line. "
Which doesn't make a lot of sense. If it is not taken as a single parameter for
other file types, why not?
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"This is because SH causes BPXBATCH to execute a login shell that runs the
/etc/profile script and runs the user's .profile."
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Of course: semicolon is the standard *ix command separator. If the parameter
following -c includes a semicol then it is treated as multiple commands.
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Semicolon is a separator for TSO SH as well, but you have to keep TSO from
recognizing it.
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David Crayford
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To
I understand why they parse pgm and sh differently. What I don't understand is
why instream data should be treated differently from other datasets.
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it the flavor of MVS/TSO/JES
Then why are you defending that behavior? Or did you reply without reading what
I wrote?
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Jack J. Woehr
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om batch, TSO/E, and ISPF
-> The BPXBATCH utility -> Passing parameter data to BPXBATCH -> Guidelines for
defining STDPARM
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mat all of the
tracks? When you format a zFS, does that force formatting of all tracks? Can
you provide references that I can cite for the answers?
Thanks.
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Fo
NIX System Services
Command Reference.
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