Warning! Edward and I am now hijacking this thread to discuss something very odd/fishy... ;-D
:-D *-D ;-D Edward Gould wrote: >Thirty + years ago (pre-RACF) we put update password on the mastercats. >Worked like a charm for us. Passwords? Hmmm, my very first boss (now dead) used that, but they were then already starting to expand usage of RACF and getting rid of passwords. Then I become later storage admin and soon found out I really need RACF to protect my catalogs, datasets as well my SMS + HSM then. And dropping passwords at all of course. Ok, Edward, first thing first! Thanks for your kind notes. I humbly appreciate it., Please educate me about those passwords and management of that. How did you managed it? What if the password holder is ill or dead of fired, what then? What happens if that dataset 'password' is deleted? Were the contents readable or was that content scrambled? I never could figured that out... Oh, last question please, if you don't mind, were passwords used when mcat was opened first during IPL? Now, I am still astonished that provisions for passwords are still there in ISPF panels! Beside backward compatibility reasons, why are passwords still supported in utilities and ISPF, even now at year 2016 and z/OS v2.1 + v2.2? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
