In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 04/22/2011
at 11:27 AM, "Emily A. Rambo" <[email protected]> said:
>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.
That was common in the OS/360 days; we have since learned better. I
have yet to see such an SVC that was not easily spoofed. Don't do it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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