Kurt, Caveats understood.
In case some are wondering, the reason I am providing this information is to satisfy a request for auditing/security purposes by providing what I like to call "pseudo vulnerability scanning" reports. We all know that our favorite platform is not very vulnerable when using the Windows platform as the baseline standard for this topic, but I had to come up with "something" to report on and ERROR SYSMODS seemed to fit the bill. Yeah, I know, it's a stretch, but they seemed to like the idea. :-) I had to provide the English descriptions for the FMIDs and even with them, the intended audience will probably not have a clue as to what they do. Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kurt Quackenbush Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 9:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: FMID descriptions Richards, Robert B. wrote: > Unless I coded it wrong "SET BDY(TARGET). UNLOAD SYSMODS FUNCTIONS.", > why do you think it is easier? Both UNLOAD and LIST are multi-line > reports. To me having the values delineated by "subentrytype(value)" seems a bit easier to parse and pick off the stuff you want. Yes you still have to parse multi-line output. I suppose its six of one, half a dozen of the other. > How about providing the FMID description on the summary section of the > ERROR SYSMOD report? :-) The print line has the room! <grin> Duly noted. > In the absence of that, do you approve of the BCNFMDS method as being > accurate? Yes, that is accurate and seems a fine use for your purposes. Although we have no plans right now that would affect the BCNFMDS table, understand of course the usual caveats apply -- it's not a published program interface, so in the future we could change the structure of that table, eliminate it, etc. Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
