I wouldn't say no qualms at all :) Products from the unnamed ISV have been here since before I started. As has the authorized link list. For better or worse, I am stuck with trusting the vendors to not leave gapping backdoors.
And, I did ask, without success for far, over on RACF-L what is advised to lock the gates better. If you can't get your own code running on my system, can you use this hole? > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Shane G > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Program FLIH > > And (given the discussion so far) you feel no qualms about handing the keys > of the realm to any and all persons of unknown (programming) > quality/probity ?. > > I have harped on about this for years elsewhere, and keep getting beaten > down as "unjustified" (that was the politest synonym I could come up with). > > Shane ... > > On Sat, Feb 25th, 2012 at 4:54 AM, "Gibney, Dave" wrote: > > > ... > > When any of the vendors I named instruct me so, I dutifully APF their > > libraries and they often reside in the linklist which we at least do > > set AFP via IEASYSxx.
