Somewhere I missed the earlier post...how can I get hold of he Edit Macro to
learn more about this kind of programming (not sure I will roll it out, but
would be nice to understand)?
Don

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

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