On Tue, 5 May 2009 23:38:45 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Sorry, guys. In my world, Application Programmers have no business having >access to Storage Management utilities like DSS. Period. That needs to remain a centralized function. > Stay in your own world then. :-) > >ABSOLUTELY! >Even sysprogs should not have access. >Only those who are storage admins! > >Would you give RACF special to non-security types? > Huh? What does that have to do with using a utility to copy or move data sets that you already have access to delete, move, allocate using another method. >Somebody pointed out that if you gave somebody OPERATIONS to an ID, they could do some damage. >Well, don't give them the attribute! > Same comment as above. What does OPERATIONS have to do with it? Will you guyz get wake up? It's 2009, not 1970. Geez... no wonder our platform is dying!! :-( 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

