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CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity. -------- Original message --------From: "Swarbrick, Frank" <[email protected]> Date: 12/21/17 5:29 PM (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Macro processor Doesn't RACF or other access control protect this data equally? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2017 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] 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? Thanks, Jon. On Wednesday, December 20, 2017 3:13 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: Which "production" languages would that be? Enterprise COBOL and PL/I _both_ support dynamic allocation of files. COBOL ref: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS6SG3_6.2.0/com.ibm.cobol62.ent.doc/PGandLR/ref/rliosass.html PL/I ref: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSY2V3_5.1.0/com.ibm.ent.pl1.zos.doc/pg/allodynallo.html The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you.
