On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:54:43 -0400 Gerhard Postpischil <gerh...@valley.net>
wrote:

:>Binyamin Dissen wrote:
:>> :>Expiration dates are too easy to bypass. 
 
:>> Required access to the console.

:>Unless you used SCRATCH with the PURGE option; e.g., I get the 
:>extents and map the free space on a volume, scratch the data 
:>set, and allocate one of mine with the appropriate space 
:>amount(s), and I have all the data unprotected.

Wasn't done to protect the data - to prevent unplanned changes - such as even
a SP accidentally doing a save.

Did scratch purge bypass the prompt?

:>> That was for protection. I remember that we used expiration dates on all
:>> system datasets.

:>See above. Password protected data sets with no PASSWORD data 
:>set entries were much safer, especially if xMASPZAP was renamed 
:>or front-ended.

Different needs for protection.

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