Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Sean, SMS managed datasets must be cataloged. And if there is no ALIAS and the dataset is allocated, SMS WILL catalog the dataset in the MASTER CATALOG no matter what the security rules. It is the subsequent delete of the bad dataset I do not understand. That should require access

Need CA-7 ENQUEUE information

2019-09-25 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Does CA-7 enqueue EXCL to avoid duplicated tasks? What are the major names CA-7 uses for this? TX. -- ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Contiguous Monitoring for Legacy **| * -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Who writes these things?

2019-09-25 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 25 Sep 2019 11:13:20 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote: >The nomenclature that a parser uses for a parse tree has nothing to do with >the nature of the language that it parses. The format of an HTML parse tree >constructed by, e.g., a Perl

Re: Trying to put three reports together with SORT

2019-09-25 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Hi, I get a bit confused from the records you wrote and about joinkey. Anyway, assuming all keys are 20 bytes long and havingthis input: +1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 DIV ORGANIC1 LOC NJ-HUNTERDON 1 DIV ORGANIC1

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Allan Staller
That is not considered a good practice in RACF circles. The best practice would be: MCAT - UACC(NONE) READ(*) ALTER(sysprogs) (note: No update access except via sysprogs) UCAT - UACC(NONE) UPDATE(*) ALTER(sysprogs) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On

Hillgang Presentations

2019-09-25 Thread Neale Ferguson
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Re: Trying to put three reports together with SORT

2019-09-25 Thread Billy Ashton
Thank you for this, Max; with a couple tweaks on the key length, it works just as I need it! Have a great day! Billy On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 4:42 AM Massimo Biancucci wrote: > Hi, > > I get a bit confused from the records you wrote and about joinkey. > > Anyway, assuming all keys are 20 bytes

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2019-09-25 o 15:57, Joao Bentes pisze: Hi, If memory serves me right, as long as you have ALTER to the dataset, you need update to the catalog in order to create it, but you do not need any access to the catalog in order to delete it. Best Regards "Do the difficult things while

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Tom Conley
On 9/25/2019 9:57 AM, Joao Bentes wrote: Hi, If memory serves me right, as long as you have ALTER to the dataset, you need update to the catalog in order to create it, but you do not need any access to the catalog in order to delete it. Best Regards "Do the difficult things while they are

Re: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors???

2019-09-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
WTG tables are characteristic of O/C/EOV; most type 4 SVC routines didn't have one. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Giliad Wilf

Re: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors???

2019-09-25 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:29:18 -0500, David Staudacher wrote: If memory serves me right, the roots of Xpediter-type software are in a shop that wrote a module that had been inserted into SVC51's (SDUMP) control flow. In those days a large SVC routine was comprised of several pieces, each having

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Joao Bentes
Hi, If memory serves me right, as long as you have ALTER to the dataset, you need update to the catalog in order to create it, but you do not need any access to the catalog in order to delete it. Best Regards "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Joao Bentes
Hi, Regarding the access list for UCATS, if they are for SMS datasets, you do not need to have them with UPDATE(*); READ(*) will be enough. Only those creating non-SMS entries will need UPDATE access. Best Regards "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while

Re: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors???

2019-09-25 Thread zMan
While this particular case seems to have been resolved, I'd note that with the churn in the industry, this kind of thing is hella common. Another example: the Optim line, which IBM quietly sold to UNICOM a few years ago, yet still markets as if it's their own. Obviously that's because of an

Re: [External] Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Sean, This may not help with your current issue, but a couple thoughts come to mind. Take a look at protectall. With protectall active, if there's no RACF profile to cover TEST1, the system won't allow it to be created at all. Another thing to check is this, do you have discrete profiles

Re: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors???

2019-09-25 Thread Ralph Robison
David, Filling in a bit of the Xpediter history, the name Centura Software was a successor to ADS. Compuware acquired Centura in the early 1990's. At the time, Compuware had CICS dBUG-AID. The CICS product was renamed Xpediter/CICS to use a common name for the debuggers. Ralph Robison

Re: Who writes these things?

2019-09-25 Thread David Crayford
On 2019-09-25 10:54 AM, Jon Perryman wrote: > HTML is not only not object oriented, it is not even a procedural language. Using developer tools in any browser will show you each object with the object attributes. HTML predefined all classes and the attributes associated with those classes

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
We have TSS and it can tell exactly where a user gets/inherits a certain authorization from. Can't RACF do the same? Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Sean Gleann > Sent: 25 September, 2019 13:06 > To:

Re: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors???

2019-09-25 Thread David Staudacher
An even earlier reference - July 1981: http://books.google.com/books?id=hoy5IQyLFvsC=PA46=Xpediter I am now almost certain that Xpediter was a product Compuware did *not* develop but rather *acquired*, some time around 1986 (the last Computerworld reference) or after. These articles:

Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Sean Gleann
Following a set of somewhat distressing events here, I discovered - the hard way - that our master catalog was poorly protected, and so I now have to fix it. The situation is that all users of the my system can create, read, write, update, delete files that are cataloged in the MasterCat. The

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Sean, I don't know about tracing RACF, but there are SMF records which can show who accessed what and when. I have been in a similar situation, just not to the extreme. So, what I did was to create a new Master Catalog, get the RACF security setup, then migrate to the new Master Catalog. If

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Mark Hiscock
Hi Sean, It's GTF all the way for RACF tracing: https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/364448/how-do-i-set-up-diagnostics-for-running-gtf-trace/ ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/s390/zos/racf/pdf/r07_saftrace.pdf Kind Regards, Mark --- Mark Hiscock

Re: Who writes these things?

2019-09-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
The nomenclature that a parser uses for a parse tree has nothing to do with the nature of the language that it parses. The format of an HTML parse tree constructed by, e.g., a Perl program, is not compatible with JavaScript. CSS is not JavaScript, or even related to it. The objects and

Re: Softcopy Librarian and V2R3

2019-09-25 Thread Pierre Fichaud
Susan, I've clicked on the link but I'm not sure what to do. I want the PDFs installed on my hard drive (Windows 7) in book shelves. I'd like to browse them with Adobe. Thanks and regards, Pierre. -- For

Re: Softcopy Librarian and V2R3

2019-09-25 Thread Susan Shumway
Hi Pierre, The z/OS V2R3 content is not available in BookManager format, which is why you're seeing only the Knowledge Center content in your repository. For all releases starting with V2R1, we provide only PDF and HTML plug-in (Knowledge Center) outputs. See

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-25 Thread Joao Bentes
Hi, If you want to trace a specific userid you will have to set it with the UAUDIT attribute. That way, all of its accesses will be recorded on SMF type 80 and you will be able to analyze it using ICETOOL or a similar tool. There are several examples on the SYS1.SAMPLIB(IRRICE) that is

Re: DFSORT Header1 with Date

2019-09-25 Thread Max Smith
I'm sorry but Sri Hari will be unavailable for some time and not be responding. The rest of the DFSORT support and development teams will respond as they can. Max Smith DFSMS Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Softcopy Librarian and V2R3

2019-09-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:59:03 -0400, Pierre Fichaud wrote: >Susan, > I've clicked on the link but I'm not sure what to do. > I assume that's https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosInternetLibrary "Download all z/OS V2R3 Library publications to ZIP file". Unzip and

Re: Softcopy Librarian and V2R3

2019-09-25 Thread Susan Shumway
Thanks, gil! Yes, that's the bulk download of all individual PDFs listed on the z/OS V2R3 Library page ( https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3Library ). We also provide a totally separate PDF deliverable, the "Adobe Indexed PDF Collection." The V2R3 version is

Re: Softcopy Librarian and V2R3

2019-09-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:59:03 -0400, Pierre Fichaud wrote: >I want the PDFs installed on my hard drive (Windows 7) in book shelves. Do you mean bookshelves as processed by the IBM Softcopy Reader? If so, I think you are out of luck. I don't believe that IBM provides bookshelf files any longer.

Re: Softcopy Librarian and V2R3

2019-09-25 Thread Gibney, Dave
I will give them a try :) But, I will again take this opportunity to plea for the return of Bookmanager format :) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Susan Shumway > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:34 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >

Re: Trying to put three reports together with SORT

2019-09-25 Thread Billy Ashton
OK, now for another twist on a request from the same department. I have a flat file that was dumped from a VSAM file, and it contains records with major, medium and minor breaks. I know there is a way in SORT to suppress printing the duplicate header values, but I spent an hour in the manual and

Re: DFSORT Header1 with Date

2019-09-25 Thread Edward Finnell
Thanks for the update. His continued involvement carried on the tradition Frank Yeager provided us for years. Like yelling over the cubicle "what's this mean?" In a message dated 9/25/2019 4:26:03 PM Central Standard Time, s...@us.ibm.com writes: ri Hari will be unavailable for some time and

Re: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors???

2019-09-25 Thread Giliad Wilf
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:39:40 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: Well, SVC51 is a type-4 SVC and was comprised of several IGCnn05A pieces. I think there was a limit for the size of a single piece back at MVT R21 days, of 1K, or maybe 2K and it had to fit into something called "transient area". You

Re: Xpediter History (was "same debugger/competing Vendors")

2019-09-25 Thread David Staudacher
Thanks Ralph! That clears things up quite a bit. Partly with that information, I was able to learn a little bit more about the exact timeline. Application Development Systems continued doing business from San Jose under that name until about November 1989, when it rebranded as "Centura