RAKF is now available on the CBT site

Posted on November 2, 2013 by mark

MVS3.8J/Turnkey3 news.

The RAKF security product that three of the enthusiasts have been working on that until now had only been available by joining the yahoo hercules-390 usergroup (you had to join yahoo, and who needs yet another email address) has been made available on CBT tape.

It is packaged as a SMP install on CBT tape 486, file 850. The SMP install is for the PTF levels of the base Turnkey3 release so should just work for most Turnkey3 users.

I managed to install it on my MVS3.8J Turnkey3 system without any problems even though I have a lot of customisations loaded already, so if you have been waiting for it to appear in the wild grab it from the CBT site. http://cbttape.org.

It works a treat. I have documented issues and workarounds I used for the actual operation on my website at https://mdickinson.dyndns.org/hercules/RAKF_notes.php if you are interested.

About mark

At work, been working on Tandems for around 30yrs (programming + sysadmin), plus AIX and Solaris sysadmin also thrown in during the last 20yrs; also about 5yrs on MVS (mainly operations and automation but also smp/e work). At home I have been using linux for decades. Programming background is commercially in TAL/COBOL/SCOBOL/C(Tandem); 370 assembler(MVS); C, perl and shell scripting in *nix; and Microsoft Macro Assembler(windows).
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