On 10/28/2005 10:16 AM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
RACF stands for Resource Access Control Facility. But, the "resources"
it protects have nothing whatsoever to do with CPU time or virtual storage.
I suppose, if we could convince Mr. Peabody to use the Wayback Machine
to take us to the meeting where RACF's moniker was invented, we could
insist on a more-appropriate one, like PCF = Permissions Control
Facility. :-\
The internal tool which became RACF did have controls for CPU and DASD
storage utilization (though I don't think it had controls for virtual
storage).
If you were going to go back and change something, I'd prefer you
convince them to make those controls part of the product, too, rather
than changing the product name.
Walt
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