Ed,
Since IEBCOPY need APF we are in a which comes first the chicken or
the egg.
Ed
On Jul 24, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
On 7/23/2013 5:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:58:16 -0600, Roger Bolan wrote:
Application programmers should be able to use SMP/E.
[snip]
A voice of reason. And it was safe, or at least believed to be
safe, until
IO11698/IO12263.
This would make a good SHARE requirement. The goal should be to
remove APF authorization from SMP/E and, at the same time, remove
the SAF checking that was recently introduced to limit who could
use SMP/E.
Originally, SMP/E required authorization only because IEBCOPY
required it. Now that IEBCOPY no longer requires authorization (as
of z/OS 1.13), it would seem easy to remove the AC(1) binder
attribute from SMP/E. Right? No so fast! It's entirely possible
that additional features were added to SMP/E over the years that
work only because it's APF authorized. If so, those features will
need to be identified and additional development will be required
to find a way to provide similar function from unauthorized SMP/E.
Clearly, someone at IBM needs to work on this. SMP/E should go back
to being a utility that anyone can use--just just a privileged few.
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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