Phil Smith III wrote: >Spent time with a customer today on a RACF issue. Long story short: They had >chosen an unused POSIT, only it turned out that it was secretly in use by >CADB2 (whichever tool THAT is). Listing POSITs with Vanguard did NOT show it.
That class was probably a dynamic class and Vanguard was perhaps not updated/upgraded to pick it up? What number of POSIT was it? If it is in the IBM range, you're out of luck. >We only discovered this because, while Easter Egging, we changed the GENERIC >setting and got an error saying that the POSIT was shared and that all users >had to have the same GENERIC setting. (Yay Easter Egging, saved my **** so >many times.!) Sorry, but what is 'Easter Egging'? >I'm sending this in hopes that it might save someone else some time: this >would appear to be a good way to verify uniqueness of POSIT use. And maybe >everyone but me already knew this trick. Use this goodie LISTCDT in http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/racf/downloads/index.html Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
