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From: Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 2:39 PM
To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Marx Zelden - IPLINFO utility

 

This is a pointless discussion. Protecting this storage will break myriad
programs, and adding a subsystem or service to provide controlled access
would be a huge undertaking, both for IBM to implement and for customers and
ISVs to use. I would predict that even if IBM did it, people would turn it
off so they could get work done. (Think early days of Windows UAC-and yes,
that got better, but with significant investment in/revamp of Windows, plus
it's mostly transparent to programs. Not the same thing, just similar in
that folks just turned it off because it was too intrusive.)

 

Put another way: this is arguably a fundamental design flaw in OS/360. At
this point, it's not fixable.

 

...phsiii

 

P.S. There's gotta be a joke about "Marx" Zelden and universal access to low
core in there somewhere!


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