I have a glimmering of an idea as to why that is done. But I wish there were an interface to retrieve those messages in my own application. Such as "password will expire in .. days", instead of needing to do another RACF function to find out if I should issue such a message or not. Or am I missing something?
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List > [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Walt Farrell > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:03 PM > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: Message ICH70001I under TSO/ISPF > > On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:00:03 -0400, Tony Harminc > <t...@harminc.com> wrote: > > >It seems inconceivable, given what we hear often enough from RACF > >IBMers on this list, that RACF would be issuing a TPUT directly just > >because it recognizes that it has been invoked from a TSO session, > >just as we would be astonished if RACF decided to use some > CICS or IMS > >messaging facility to notify the end user, rather than making the > >message available to the calling (logging on) application to pass to > >the user as it sees fit. > > Yes, RACF uses TPUT for some cases. That's a very old, and easy to > recognizze environment, and one in which it's easy to > communicate with the > user. Other environments are less easy to recognize, and in > many of them > it's impossible to communicate with the user directly. > > -- > Walt Farrell > IBM STSM,z/OS Security Design > >
