On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:50:21 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:36:29 -0400, Scott Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I make it a point NOT to have a PASSWORD dataset on my sysres. I consulted >at a shiop a few years ago that had one, and it was a PITA, since they were >securing some datasets with password, and others using RACF, believe it or not. >> > >If they had RACF then nothing was being secured with PROTECT. Password protection should still work on systems using RACF, except for: (a) SMS-managed or VSAM data sets; and (b) data sets protected by (really, known to) RACF. Actually both (a) and (b) apply regardless of security product, as far as I know. -- Walt Farrell, CISSP IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
