On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:03:14 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote:

>I think Gil is on to something here. At SHARE conferences following
>announcement of the change, I got the impression that rank and file
>thought it was major overkill--even killing by friendly fire--to control
>product usage in this way. But the shotgun solution was mandated from on
>high to appease a minuscule subset of customers upset by some local
>shoot-your-foot catastrophe. It's not hard to manage. Create a RACF Group
>that has appropriate access to SMP/E, then connect each legitimate user to
>that group. Until someone moves in or out of the role, you're done.
> 
Appeasing a minuscule subset of customers does not rise to the level
of a "System Integrity APAR" (cf. "Boy Who Cried Wolf") unless that
minuscule subset controls a disproportionate subset of revenues.

I suspect there's something more afoot.

-- gil

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