On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > This person had a user-id and password with privileges. Think of the > harm someone with a system programmers id and privileges can do. For > those of you who have been at a number of shops, how many were really > careful about ids and their revocation. Most of the ones I was at > were and I am not certain about the others. The problem was the > security culture and I guarantee you that not all mainframe shops are > really good about it. I also would almost guarantee you there are a > number of Unix and Windows shops that take it very seriously. How > quickly do mainframe shops apply the PTF's for integrity APARs? How > quickly do the other environments apply the comparable fixes?
Well-said. Yes, there are PC weenies who don't get it, but there are plenty who do. Blind obeisance to and unbridled faith in mainframe theology as the One True Path is as mindless as the chants of "mainframes are dead". The war is over: both sides won (or lost). Get over it. I've said it before: there are too many folks on this list who whine about not being able to find jobs, while at the same time not only refusing to learn anything new but being proud of it. "When your buggy-whip factory upgrades, it's time to start railroading" (to completely mangle a metaphor, with sincere apologies to RAH). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
