Re: Thoughts on DIY PGP

from: Mark Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Thoughts on DIY PGP

GPG -- GNU Privacy Guard

Free open-source software.

On Monday, April 12, 2021, 5:21:19 PM EDT, Justin Taylor <

jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a DIY JAR that uses Bouncy Castle (
https://www.bouncycastle.org/java.html) to do PGP encryption/decryption.
The most recent Java group PTF broke my JAR, and to continue I'll need to
update to the latest version of Bouncy Castle.? I'm a little embarrassed to
say that I'm on the Feb 2013 version, so I suspect it'll take a significant
amount of rewriting to get it functional.? It seems to be a good time to
look around and see if there's a better option.

Is anyone doing DIY PGP?? If so, any suggestions?

TIA
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message: 2
date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:39:16 -0700
from: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: QIC2DC cartridges?

I have acquired a couple of QIC tapes that, if formatted as CTGTYPE,
come up QIC2DC (as opposed to QIC2GB).

And unfortunately, on the box on which I'm attempting to do a GO SAVE 21
(V4R4 with a 6382/001 drive, marked "4/8GB SLR5 QIC-4GB DC" on the
door), it fails on the SAVSYS, apparently because it doesn't like the
tape format.

Will these tapes accept a format other than this "QIC2DC"? One that
*will* work for a SAVSYS on this box?

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message: 3
date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 10:18:55 +0200
from: Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: QIC2DC cartridges?

Hello James,

Am 13.04.2021 um 02:39 schrieb James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

One that *will* work for a SAVSYS on this box?

I missed on which kind of machine you want to use the tapes.

Since QIC cartridges are no longer manufactured, and the gum components in
the cartridges age and fail (not necessarily dependent on actual usage),
I've removed these drives from multiple machines I had and have,
substituting them with other (old) tape technology drives where cartridge
stock is still plentiful to obtain. With good results.

https://try-as400.pocnet.net/wiki/Tape_Drives_on_old_AS/400

For slow machines like my 150's, I'm using DDS2 and DDS3-DAT drives,
depending on count and speed of the accompanied disk drives. One with three
6602 5400 RPM is better off with DDS2, one with four 6717 15k drives can
reasonably sustain streaming a DDS3 drive. Anything faster will experience
a lot of drive stop-start-cycles because the system can't deliver data fast
enough to have a continuous stream of data to be written.

DDS's are working out of the box. Just make sure the build-in head-cleaner
(sometimes a tiny plastic foam roll) hasn't degraded to sticky mud. If yes,
I always removed the roll before it could contaminate the spinning head
drum and bring a catastrophic end to the tape itself, and the drive. As I
found out, there's no bad coming from that removal.

The same goes with a S20 I had: Good experience with a DLTVS 80. My 800
has a HP LTO1.

I'm always using INZTAP DENSITY(*DEVTYPE), which always works.

Maybe this helps?

:wq! PoC



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message: 4
date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:31:22 +0000
from: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: ENDSBS in QCTL

RTM on ENDSBS.
When you are done ask yourself these questions:
1 - Does an autostart job qualify as "initiated from a job queue"? If
not, have the autostart job do a SBMJOB of a job.
2 - If you do a WRKACTJOB, find the job, use option 5 to DSPJOB, the
option 2 to Display job definition attributes, what is the value of "Allow
multiple threads"? It should be *NO.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=ssw_ibm_i_74/cl/endsbs.htm


Rob Berendt
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Hi,

I'm testing a UPS Power Handling program on my v7r3 server.
When it reaches the condition where an ENDSBS *ALL command is necessary
(power has been off for more than a minute), I get CPF1052...

Message . . . . : ENDSBS *ALL not allowed in current environment.
Cause . . . . . : ENDSBS *ALL is allowed only from an interactive job
that
is started from a *SIGNON workstation entry in the controlling
subsystem.
ENDSBS *ALL is not allowed from a TELNET job, target pass-through job,
or
workstation function job. ENDSBS *ALL is only allowed in a batch job
when
the BCHTIMLMT parameter is specified.

This job is an autostart job in the QCTL subsystem, defined in a Job
Description which includes the call, as QSYSOPR.
The Routing Data defined on the job description is QCMDI, which does
matches the last Routing Entry of the QCTL subsystem...

Subsystem description: QCTL Status: ACTIVE

Type options, press Enter.
5=Display details

Start
Opt Seq Nbr Program Library Compare
Value Pos
10 QARDRIVE QSYS '525XTEST' 1
15 QCMD QSYS 'QIGC' 1
700 QCL QSYS 'QCMD38' 1
9999 QCMD QSYS *ANY

So, how do I make it a Batch job, or specify BCHTIMLMT?

What am I misunderstanding? Suggestions?

Best Regards,

Thomas Garvey


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message: 5
date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:46:06 +0000
from: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: New Hardware Management Console for IBM POWER
technology-based servers

IBM Power Systems delivers new Hardware Management Console for IBM POWER
technology-based servers

https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS121-001/index.html&request_locale=en


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