On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:10:42 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A >> >> IEBCOPY may be protected as easily as ADRDSSU and it makes about as much >> sense. > >Agreed, but in many places it still is "protected" from "normal" people >like application programmers, for whatever historical or political >reason(s) there may be or may have been, and it is what it is. You >learn to do without because there are more important battles to be >waged. > What I find onerous is that ADRDSSU requires that when extracting and renaming a data set the programmer must have read access to the original data set name. This considerably degrades the usefulness of ADRDSSU as an interchange vehicle. I believe I understand the reason for the restriction, but it could have been done in a better way. Particularly, I'd reframe the restriction as "the programmer must have read access to either the original data set name or to the archive data set." The stricter rule provides little additional protection, insofar as a determined hacker with read access to the archive could copy the archive and change the the names in the copy in order to circumvent the protection.
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