In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/07/2005
   at 06:05 AM, Walt Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>OA12196 is a Security APAR.  Just as with Integrity APARs, IBM
>withholds  details of the problem and the fix to decrease the chances
>that someone will find out the details and attack systems that do
>not have the fix applied yet.

Quite rightly, IMHO. I've certainly asked for that handling in the
past.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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