Hi Tony,
I wouldn't bet on that and as Leslie Nielsen says: "Don't call me Shirley!"

Regards,
David

On 2024-07-21 21:09, Tony Harminc wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 at 20:26, David Spiegel <
00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

Hi Andrew,
You've just discovered the need for a 1-Pack (or 2-3 Pack) rescue system
with minimal software.

Surely every informed Windows user has a recovery USB stick handy... That's
the Windows equivalent of the 1-Pack system.

Tony H.

On 2024-07-21 19:58, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 20/07/2024 9:31 am, Steve Beaver wrote:
We never had these problems until Windows showed up
You can't really blame Windows in this case.

If you had a linklisted, APF authorized product that hooked into
system functions and was remotely updateable by the vendor without a
system restart, they could equally bring down all z/OS systems
simultaneously. That's effectively the situation here.

If your auditor or CTO insisted you had to run Crowdstrike on the
mainframe, could you say no?

The biggest problem is the sheer number of systems affected. But
recovering mainframe systems could also be a challenge, if all your
systems are down. Time to launch your DR systems perhaps - but what if
the offending product is part of the real time data mirrored to the DR
site? And every customer is ringing the DR providor and declaring
disaster?

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