John McKown wrote
Yes, I want it to run authorized
I really don't want to write an SVC
And I really don't want to use a Cross Memory Call.

Paul D'Angelo

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List
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Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ATTACH Macro with DCB=

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> D'Angelo, Paul V.
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:22 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: ATTACH Macro with DCB=
>
> Is there any way to issue an ATTACH macro (for an Authorized program)
> from a Non Authorized Program.
> By that I mean the Non Authorized Program is in STEPLIB (Not
> Authorized)
> and it issues an ATTACH with a DCB= parameter
> The DCB Parameter references a DD Statement whose DSN is an authorized
> Library.
> I seem to recall I tried this many years ago and it would not produce
> the results I wanted.
>
> //STEP DD DSN=NOTAUTH.LIBRARY
>
> //MYAUTH DD DSN=MYAUTH.LIBRARY
>
> ATTACH EP=AUTHPGM,DCB=MYAUTH

Yes, but it won't run as authorized. Do you want it to run authorized?
If so, you could only do that by somehow injecting code into z/OS which
violates IBM's security directives (aka a "magic SVC" or a subsystem of
some sort).

--
John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

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