It's just as easy to turn off as it is to turn on--except for a shop that has built its entire production culture around it. Even making it NOT work by default would still dump the accommodation burden squarely on the customer's shoulders. Hard to imagine such a change making it into GA.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 6:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: JCL for WTO On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 00:58:08 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >I doubt that anyone who scored a passing grade in Audit 101 would let this >mechanism fly today. It is very easy to implement but is totally >uncontrollable as to who can issue what command under what circumstances. It >might have made sense in 1969. Not in 2019. > IBM has been known to change defaults when integrity is involved. Should this be a candidate? >-----Original Message----- >From: Seymour J Metz >Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2019 11:08 AM > >And there is support to prevent the use of // COMMAND. IMHO a well run shop >turns it off. Using it to issue a SNED command is like using a stick of >dynamite to kill a fly. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
