I can think of one use: I have dealt with support calls from a customer or prospect of the form "your program reports it is running non-authorized but we are SURE we did everything you told us to do." It might be useful if a program could not only report it was non-authorized but also the possible reasons why.
Granted what @Ed says below, it would not always be possible of course, but usually the problem is simpler than that. Usually it turns out that "every library in the STEPLIB concatenation" means "EVERY library in the STEPLIB concatenation." Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 8:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: AC(1) On 4/30/2018 6:06 PM, Walt Farrell wrote: > > But it's a good question, as merely wanting to know if you were linked AC(1) > seems not terribly useful to a running program. Hardly useful at all since -- for the purposes of APF authorization -- even when loaded from an APF authorized library, AC(1) applies only to the program listed on the EXEC PGM=program JCL statement. Suppose EXEC PGM=program is AC(0) and then XCTLs to you and you are AC(1) and residing in an APF authorized library. Now you're AC(1), you're the job step program, and yet you're not APF authorized. Fab... -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail message, including any attachments, appended messages and the information contained therein, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient or have otherwise received this email message in error, any use, dissemination, distribution, review, storage or copying of this e-mail message and the information contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you are not a intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of this email message and do not otherwise utilize or retain this email message or any or all of the information contained therein. Although this email message and any attachments or appended messages are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the sender for any loss or damage arising in any way from its opening or use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
