On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:10:15 -0500, Wayne Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote:
>I hope that this SVC has been removed. These "super-secret" SVC's are >nothing more than MASSIVE integrity exposures, that can be relatively >easily spoofed, and should be banned from any and all z/OS sites. > >=============================================== >Wayne Driscoll >OMEGAMON DB2 L3 Support/Development >wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com >=============================================== > > > >From: >"Emily A. Rambo" <[email protected]> >To: >[email protected] >Date: >04/22/2011 11:27 AM >Subject: >Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules >Sent by: >IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > >If there's no way to get what you need without using the functions that >IBM >requires be authorized, here's another possibility. We had a sysprog >years ago >who coded a user SVC that could be called to flip the JSCBAUTH bit on or >off, >with a very short list of program names in an internal table that are >allowed to >call the user SVC. It was needed for a dynamic allocation common module >(SVC99) because IBM required that the caller be authorized in order to >code >the WAIT FOR UNITS parameter. We were having a lot of contention with >tape drives at the time (pre virtual tape days). The dynalloc module >called >the user SVC to get itself authorized if wait for units was requested, it >issued >the SVC99, then called the user SVC again to de-authorize. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 Yeah, it has been removed, and you're right, it was "Super-secret". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
