On 2017-12-24, at 11:01:38, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > > 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. > But the DoS could be inadvertent, by a novice programmer, unprivileged, outside the production stream, not subject to review.
And for this, DYNALLOC provides somewhat better protection than JCL because such a person would probably lack S99WTDSN authority. It's a pity that RACF allows ENQ on a DSN with no authority to access that data set. But that would require that JCL distinguish between intent to write and not to write, and more. -- gil
