> > Perhaps I'm forgetting something, but IIRC, as far as the binder and z/OS > > itself is concerned, RSECT matters only for CSECTs in IEANUCxx where they > > are put into the read-only nucleus. It is ignored for all other > > situations. > > > Isn't there for several releases a REFRPROT option (in PARMLIB?) > that causes any REFR CSECT to be write-protected? But this is > the sort of thing where the individual unprivileged programmer > ought to have control, subject to installation defaults and > overrides. REFRPROT in PROGxx causes REFR load modules and program objects to be loaded into key 0 storage, and the full 4K pages are page protected. RSECT is not involved. I would expect that the individual unprivileged programmer has control over whether he specifies REFR when he binds his program.
Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY
