I receive the RACF-L digest every day and I see no references to IPLINFO in any 
of the digests for the last week or ten days.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Phil Smith III
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 3:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Marx Zelden - IPLINFO utility

Oops. Wrong list! RACF not IBM-MAIN.

From: Phil Smith III <[email protected]> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 2:39 PM
To: [email protected]
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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