In a recent note, Bob Rutledge said: > Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:24:36 -0400 > > As it happens, my ace security team *deleted* the default OMVS UID > two Tuesdays ago at 11 in the morning. (I have an idea why, but > the explanation would be somewhat politically incorrect.) Although > the first victim was an application that happens to process EDI > orders from our 3,000 retail outlets, nobody noticed that it wasn't > working 'til I was on my way home. After quick conversation with > the developers, mostly "we didn't change anything" (and I believed > them), I started looking. > > I won't say how long it took me to get to the missing UID which > caused the under-the-covers dub to fail but I will note that it > was the first two-beer problem I've shot in a while. > MVS is evolving to the point at which:
o The default OMVS UID should, by default, be defined in base MVS systems. o That definition should be built in in such a way that ace admins might be able to change its value, or its shell, but never to delete it. o Or, at least, an operators' console message should appear whenever a dub fails because of lack of default OMVS UID. I wonder what Walt F. says? I don't own stock in any breweries. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
