On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:34:30 -0500 Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> wrote:
:>-------------------------------<snip>------------------------------- :> :>>At the Chicago SHARE 43 meeting in August, 1974, IBM had invited :>>attendees to a demonstration of the new MVS operating system on the 145 :>>at the Chicago Ed center. At 8 p.m. Tuesday, three attendees found the :>>IBM demonstrator on duty was enthralling an attractive lady with his :>>expertise. Not wanting to be interrupted by three males, he said, "Go :>>play with the system on that user TSO terminal over there -- you can :>>find out how good the security of an MVS system is for a typical TSO :>>user". The challenge was accepted, and in short order, "Tim W." observed :>>that SYS1.NUCLEUS was not protected, so he scratched it. "Tim W." knew :>>that once the system is up, the dataset SYS1.NUCLEUS is not read again, :>>so the SHARE demonstration continued without a flaw. It was later heard :>>that IBM took the SHARE MVS demonstration down at 11 p.m. to IPL for a :>>customer benchmark; it took until 3 a.m. for IBM to find a CE who could :>>correctly decipher the wait state code and explain that the IPLs kept :>>failing because there was no SYS1.NUCLEUS on the IPL volume. :>--------------------------------<unsnip>---------------------------------- :>That was before RACF, AFAIK, but I can't help wondering who got kicked :>in the a** over that one. :-) Before RACF there were expiration dates. :>Damn fine argument for having a second IPL-able SYSRES in thos days. Only if it was offline. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
