Thanks for the much needed info, the program issuing the call is Walt, Thanks for the much needed info, the program issuing the call is APF-authorized. So no problem there Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com
________________________________ From: Walt Farrell <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, June 20, 2011 8:21:49 AM Subject: Re: CAMLST MACRO question On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:21:42 -0400, Dan D <[email protected]> wrote: >You might want to consider calling IDCAMS to perform a DELETE. > One caveat, though: some functions of DELETE require APF-authorization, and a non-APF program would not be able to call IDCAMS to perform those functions. I don't think that would pose any problems for simple deletion of data sets as the OP wants to do, but it would affect things like deleting aliases, if I remember correctly. -- Walt Farrell IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
