Really, now, that's stretching what I said a bit far. I only said application programmers were responsible for care and feeding -- I did *not* say that they actually touched the files themselves. Authorization to request that Operations run an On-Request reorg job is not a security hole, especially if managerial approval falls between request and reorg.
The duty and responsibility to review and recommend are not the same as the authority to corrupt. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2005 12:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM VSAM Statistics are often Bogus In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/06/2005 at 10:32 AM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I never even envisioned automated tools looking at VSAM stats. My >ASSumption when reading Mark's posts was that he was referring to >individual programmers looking at individual VSAM file stats for >guidance. My experience is obviously severely limited in this >regard, as in my varied positions over the years the usual case was >that all of the applications' datasets (including VSAM) were our (the >application programmers') responsibility to feed and care for, and we >never had thousands to contend with. The application programmers had access to the production data sets? There are security ramifications there. _ This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
