On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:38:47 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:03:20 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>While I applaud IBM for finally making this change and all the >>vendors who are modifying their code for this (and Sam K. and others >>for pushing the vendors), I really don't have a problem running with >>ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(YES) on my systems at this point. The exposure >>has been there forever and making it go away overnight (in relative >>terms of time) just isn't a big concern for me. >> >What other schedule would you propose as more comfortable? I'm not sure what you mean. It would have been nice if this was addressed years ago by IBM and the vendors. > >How long has user key CSA been recognized as undesirable? A very long time. I'm sure it's in the archives as to where / when it was documented first. But I do remember (without checking the archives) that this was talked about at SHARE years ago. > >I suspect that some programmers won't mend their ways until >the situation becomes critical; extending the schedule delays >the impact, but does not render it less abrupt. > >>at this point. Talk to me again in a couple of years... >> >Of course, if you plan to retire within that couple of years, >you have a private motive for the delay. > The motive I have for delay is running a business. And I didn't say we were ignoring the issue. We're not, and we are actively working on changing / fixing what we can. All I'm saying is I'm not going to get my undies in a bundle over having to roll out z/OS 1.9 with the non-default value when it has been this way "forever". Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ 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
