A more common example (and well documented within the product) is Java. The installer must have those attributes if they aren't running as UID(0).
Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:11:34 -0500, Doug Henry <[email protected]> wrote: >If you do not have UID(0) then you also need read access to >BPX.FILEATTR.PROGCTL BPX.FILEATTR.APF and BPX.FILEATTR.SHARELIB. > >These are particulary nasty ones because SMP/E will finish with a 0 return >code but you will break the product and you will not have a clue of what's >wrong. An example product that needs these is z/OSMF. > >Doug > >On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:18:02 -0400, Ken Porowski ><[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>The user submitting the install jobs (actually the USER= associated with >>the job) does not need UID(0) but they must have BPX.SUPERUSER. The >>jobs themselves will issue an SU as needed. >> >>Quite a few releases ago this was not true and the USER= had to be >>UID(0), not sure when this went away but it was many years ago. >> >>The various tasks that make up a working system each has their own need >>for UID(0) documented if it is needed. >> >> I am in the crossfire between auditors insisting that nothing needs UID >>0 and sysprogs insiting that everything in their serverpac jobs must >>have UID zero as coded. >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
