Peter,

This discussion has gone on for centuries now!!!

MVS uses  RSAPF=YES in the initiator to execute programs like IEBCOPY.

Could you please share the code Z/OS uses to execute authorised programs?
That way people that have to do it can do it with complete safety.

Many thanks,

Clem Clarke

On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 12:14 AM Peter Relson <rel...@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> I can think of no circumstance under which ATTACH with RSAPF=YES is proper
> for anything other TSO/E to use.
> It's not even used within z/OS MVS (the Base Control Program).
>
> Creating an "authorized side" of a z/OS address space requires an enormous
> amount of care, and the system integrity experts have never seen anything
> properly do so other than TSO/E.
>
> Peter Relson
> z/OS Core Technology Design
>
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