"McKown, John" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>.
..
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:03 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Any product to undelete file?
> > 
> > On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:24:28 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
> > >
> > >One thing that absolutely should NOT be part of this kind of tool
> > >would be the ability to allocate a dataset on top of the old
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> > >dataset and access the data.  This would be a huge security hole
> > >(as others have said in this thread).
> > >
> > Doesn't that happen anyway, routinely, anytime someone
> > codes DISP=NEW?
> > 
> > -- gil
> 
> Very true. We've had programmers start screaming because they run a
compile & link. The compile fails and so does not write its output. But
they didn't check the RC and did the link anyway. Just by happenstance,
the compiler output dataset was allocated to a section of DASD which
contained the output from a different compile. And so the link SUCCEEDED
but did not have their program in the library. And they were confused as
<anything>!
> 
> --
> John McKown 
> Systems Engineer IV
> IT

This only true for non-SMS datasets. Are you not running SMS?
How many sites are still running without SMS? We converted 20 years ago.

Kees.
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