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

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