Tony Harminc wrote:
In any case, it should be obvious that the best policy, when dealing with
potentially serious integrity exposures, is secrecy.
I'd say it's far from obvious. Intelligent and informed people differ
on this topic, and there is no consensus.
Regardless of what others might do, IBM keeps integrity APARs secret. I
fully agree with their philosophy.
For a good example, check out APAR OW53788. It's the User Key 8 CSA
integrity APAR for IXFP -- a problem I reported _many_ years ago when we
still had RVA DASD. You'll get a funny message from IBMLink if you try
to display it.
For more information on this APAR, see:
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0606&L=ibm-main&P=R97713&I=1
http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0307&L=ibm-main-archives&P=R13332&I=1
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