On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:24:59PM -0500, McKown, John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Your auditor is likely used to an ACF2 or TopSecret shop. If the ACF2 or > TSS started task is not running, then your security system is down and > things are nasty (I've done that too, I'm old and made many mistakes > over the years). RACF does not have this vulnerability.
Seriously, that's a feature, not a "vulnerability". Trying to fix things when your RACF db is broken is damn near impossible. Trying to fix things when your ACF2 db is broken is just really aggravating. There's a 2 orders of magnitude difference there. Caveat: The above is based on my experience with having been in both situations, but long ago. However, I have not heard anything since which would lead me to believe that anything has changed. With ACF2, you can stop the address space, fix the db, restart the address space and you're running normally again. Can this be done with RACF? With ACF2, you can stop it and restart immediately pointing to an alternate db with a different name on a different volume. Can you do this with RACF? /Leonard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
