Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2008-01-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/27/2007 at 02:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >But, as discussed here recently, prohibiting read access doesn't prevent >the allocation, and it might be more likely that a program that ABENDs on >OPEN will exit abnormally without doing the FREE. De

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2008-01-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:46:34 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/27/2007 > Time warp? > at 02:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: > >>But, as discussed here recently, prohibiting read access doesn't prevent >>the allocation, and it might be more likely that a program th

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2008-01-07 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 7, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:46:34 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/27/2007 Time warp? at 02:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: But, as discussed here recently, prohibiting read access doesn't prevent the allocat

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2008-01-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:30:53 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: > >> //STEP1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,PARM='PGM /bin/sleep ' >> //STEP2 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,COND=(0,LE) >> //SYSUT99 DD DISP=OLD,DSN=SYS1.PARMLIB >> >> ... but RACF won't help you there. > >But the initiator might stop you as RMF has

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2008-01-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:30:53 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: >On Jan 7, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Take my remark as largely rhetorical. IIRC, I was rebutting a prior >> post expressing a phobic delusion that if PARMLIB had UACC=READ, an >> incompetently or maliciously crafted job might A

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2008-01-08 Thread Ed Gould
On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 20:30:53 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: //STEP1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,PARM='PGM /bin/sleep ' //STEP2 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,COND=(0,LE) //SYSUT99 DD DISP=OLD,DSN=SYS1.PARMLIB ... but RACF won't help you there. But

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>ever have "users" cruise your parmlib and then tell you how to tune the >system? Solution: UACC(NONE). I have yet to see a single member of PARMLIB that is any business of anybody outside SYSPROGs. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:09 + Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>>ever have "users" cruise your parmlib and then tell you how to tune the system? Solution: UACC(NONE). :>I have yet to see a single member of PARMLIB that is any business of anybody outside SYSPROGs. How much of PARMLI

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>How much of PARMLIB cannot be detected by examining storage in a live system - >not using APF or anything special? >Security by obscurity is useless. I (honestly) do not understand your point. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread R.S.
Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:09 + Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>>ever have "users" cruise your parmlib and then tell you how to tune the system? Solution: UACC(NONE). :>I have yet to see a single member of PARMLIB that is any business of anybody outside SYSP

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:29:05 + Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>>How much of PARMLIB cannot be detected by examining storage in a live system - not using APF or anything special? :>>Security by obscurity is useless. :>I (honestly) do not understand your point. That by "securing" pa

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Tom Savor
>Binyamin Dissen wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:09 + Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> :>>ever have "users" cruise your parmlib and then tell you how to tune the system? Solution: >UACC(NONE). >> >> :>I have yet to see a single member of PARMLIB that is any business of anybody o

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Funny how it's ok for SYSPROGs to cruise Applications and "tell" us what needs >to be changed or how to tune our application Funny how I haven't worked at a shop (for over 20 years) that allowed me to "cruise" applications. Record layouts also need to be protected. - Too busy driving to stop f

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:58:28 -0400, Tom Savor wrote: >Another pet-peave, why do companies buy tools, then SYSPROG decides that >"only they" get to use it. Example: My customer has purchased >CICS/Abend-Aid, but has only configured it for CICS dumps. >None of the applicatioin dumps can access it

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Justice
"Funny how it's ok for SYSPROGs to cruise Applications and "tell" us what needs to be changed or how to tune our application (when we didn't ask for their opinion), but it's not ok for us to cruise your PARMLIB settings Never heard of a PARMLIB setting getting screwed-up by looking at it. Un

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:14:00 -0500, Robert Justice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Funny how it's ok for SYSPROGs to cruise Applications and "tell" us what >needs to be changed or how to tune our application (when we didn't ask >for their opinion), but it's not ok for us to cruise your PARMLIB >setti

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:09 + Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>>ever have "users" cruise your parmlib and then tell you how to tune the system? Solution: >UACC(NONE). :>I have yet to see a single member of PARMLIB that is any busin

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-21 Thread J R
he systems guy cannot understand the application guy's point, that is a problem. From: Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:29:05 + >How m

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-22 Thread Rick Fochtman
- Funny how it's ok for SYSPROGs to cruise Applications and "tell" us what needs to be changed or how to tune our application --- In our shop, it was called "Quality Assurance Review" and we caught some real how

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-22 Thread Don Leahy
- Original Message - From: "Rick Fochtman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 12:44 PM Subject: Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options) - Funny how it's ok f

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/21/2007 at 02:58 PM, Tom Savor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Funny how it's ok for SYSPROGs to cruise Applications and "tell" us >what needs to be changed or how to tune our application (when we >didn't ask for their opinion), but it's not ok for us to cruise your >PA

Re: PARMLIB(s) (Was: how to list LE options)

2007-06-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:13:09 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>If your system security is setup properly, I can see no harm in >>browsing anything on the system. > >One problem, which has been discussed here before, is users who >allocate systems data sets and don't free them when they're