On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:01:29 -0600, McKown, John wrote:

>In what sense of "owns"? To me (in my Security Administor hat), a dataset is 
>"owned", in the RACF sense, by the RACF id which "owns" the RACF dataset 
>profile which controls access to the dataset. In another sense, the "owner" is 
>the "creator" of the dataset. This latter is generally not logged other than 
>in an SMF record at the time of creation.
> 
I don't believe OS/360 was initially conceived as a multi-user
system.  In consequence, it had no concept of ownership of
resources.  This is coming to its progeny ex post facto, slowly,
incompletely.

-- gil

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