On 13 April 2011 13:02, Walt Farrell <wfarr...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > 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.
Well I guess I've now believed my day's worth of impossible things. Would it not be better all round for RACF to issue a WTO and let the TSO user choose whether or not they want to see it? Or better, just return it to the RACROUTE caller and let them decide who to show it to, and how. I suppose it's just too late to fix... Tony H.
