Thanks. This is sufficient. It's perfect. I don't need to be able to do it; I just need to be able to point a RACF expert in the right direction.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 5:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: NETRC and security -- am I missing something? Yes, this is possible. It is called PADS (Program Access to Data Sets). It uses somthing called the "Conditional Access List" in RACF also. You can basically say something like: "Allow user xyz to have ... access to ... Note that the above is very simplified and using PADS can become quite complicated by things such as determining exactly which program is doing the OPEN and which library it is coming from. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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