OK, possibly for 5 minutes or so. Mainframe operations personnel are trained, in my experience, to prioritize such issues in order to keep the batch stream running smoothly and on time (their performance reviews depend on it), and when necessary to cancel the offending job, followed immediately by escalation to the responsible development team management for emergency correction of the problem.
If truly a DOS attempt, then this would be followed the next day by promotion to the street for the responsible programmer and reprimands for the code reviewer(s) for missing such a trick. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2017 9:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dynalloc (was Macro processor) On 2017-12-24, at 00:10:58, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > > ... Without necessary access rights, allocation is a useless tool for > malfeasance of any kind. > Ummm... Denial of Service? -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system.
