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I don't know why someone would want to restrict IPCS use. What someone
would normally want to restrict is the data (such as system SVC dump data
sets) that "Joe User" might be allowed to use IPCS on. Your own SYSMDUMPs
should be fine.
So maybe the restriction is out of laziness -- they don't want to protect
their data (the data sets) so they sort of (but not completely) protect it
by restricting access to the tool that makes it easiest to view the data.
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Peter, I had the same problem in my shop. Seems that the "pencil
pushers" were afraid that IPCS
access to a dump would reveal passwords that we "stored" somewhere in
system storage.
I finally won the fight when I got the RACF team to explain how
passwords were verified and
stored in the RACF Database.
Rick
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