Rick Fochtman wrote:
I would have a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM (Capitalized, quotated, underlined, in italics, in the middle of a blank page!) with installing a program of that nature. If your consultant requires the use of an authorized program, other than what the system provides, he/she needs to justify it, explain it and allow you to examine the source code so you can be sure he's telling you God's honest truth. Otherwise, he might very well compromise your system's integrity, corporate records, overall security, etc.
Some time back I was systems manager of a service bureau; one client insisted that we install a special SVC. The explanation was that it was needed to calculate accumulated CPU time (this was prior to TIMEUSED). There was no source code, but I looked at a dump, and all it did was to test R0 and R1, then return control to the caller in key 0. I wrote a little SVC that returned CPU time in R0 to satisfy their stated need, and as far as I can tell, they never used it.
Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
