On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:43:30 -0700, Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> Has IBM any intention of prohibiting obtaining KEY 8 CSA storage in >> some future release? This would provide any of: >> >> o Great motivation for ISVs to clean up their acts. Fixing this >> shouldn't be comparable to Rocket Science, should it? >> >> o Great deterrent for customers' upgrading. >> >> o Great opportunity for YA ISV to market a patch disabling an >> integrity feature. >> > >IBM has supported this since OS/390 V2R6 via the undocumented -- yet >heavily discussed here, at SHARE, and elsewhere -- TRAPS >NAME(IgvNoUserKeyCSA) statement in DIAGxx. > "Supported"? Isn't this really an unsupported method intended for use by ISVs or test environments? What if you ran this way on your production / mission critical LPAR and it caused an unforseen problem or outage? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
