On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:30:41 -0500, Arthur Gutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:13:09 -0500, Mark Zelden
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>After thinking about that I think I was wrong, unless something has changed
>>in z/OS.  I recall someone crashing a sanbox LPAR that way at a client of
>mine
>>(about 8 or 9 years ago).
>>
>>But I'm sure you can't delete one from the same system you  are running on.
>
>The enhanced integrity introduced with 1.? prevents you from IPLing a system
>with someone else's page datasets, 

Correct.  That was the first thing I thought about when I replied without
thinking it over.

>but I do not believe it protects you from
>deleting an another active system's page datasets.  If you're in a SYSPLEX, I
>should think the GLOBAL ENQ would prevent this, unless it is EXCLuded.
>Outside of a sysplex, not so much.
>

Yes.  Outside a sysplex would be prevented also with MIM (MII) as long as you
are propagating SYSZILRD.

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

Reply via email to