DYNALLOC or not has nothing to do with data protection. A user has access to exactly the same datasets via DYNALLOC that he would have via JCL DD.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 1:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Macro processor Thanks for pointing out dynalloc in Cobol. A few decades since I actually looked at these languages. In fact, The only LE programming language I've used is C. Do you know if companies allow the use of this feature in production? For those that don't, how do they protect themselves against intentional abuse of dynalloc in situations where they can gain read access to data that would otherwise have been protected? Is it a simple code review? Or do they say it's allowed on their Unix systems which are far less protected?
