On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:41:43 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >There were no APF authorized programs ... > But there was the hazard of buffer overruns even in unauthorized programs.
IBM provides features to protect its code without timely extension of such features to customer-written code. Consider the decades during which IBM ignored the need for REFRPROT. REFRPROT should be mandatory, not optional. >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Marchant >Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 9:22 AM > >On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:19:49 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>Ah! That shows that (at least at one time) it was possible to increase >>the length of the PARM without introducing intolerable incompatibilities. > >Perhaps because the potential integrity issues were not understood at the >time. Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
