On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 10:31:08 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
>>>
>>Isn't there a JES or INTRDR exit (discussed here long ago) that
>>should be preferred to the SUBMIT exit because it traps all
>>jobs, not just those SUBmitted by TSO.  (Nowadays FTP "QUOTE SITE
>>FILE=JES" provides another bypass.)
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>Yes, a JES2 exit might have been used, but we felt that a SUBMIT exit
>was easier and equally effective, since our users had no other mechanism
>(we thought) to submit a job. We hadn't thought of them using IEBGENER
>to INTRDR; most of them weren't that bright. :-)
>
I.e. they got caught.

But since I don't believe in Security through Obscurity, I'll
cheerfully share with anyone who asks my EDIT macro to copy from
the ISPF buffer directly to INTRDR.  It:

o Bypasses the the SUBMIT exit (but that wasn't its motivation).

o Uses no temp data set, therefore avoids SPACE abends.

o Uses (by default) the attributes of the file being edited,
  rather than forcing F80.

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>Apperantly. He's selling used cars now. When he asked us for a
>
Something's poetic about that.

-- gil

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