On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:54:43 -0400 Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote:
:>Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>> :>Expiration dates are too easy to bypass. :>> Required access to the console. :>Unless you used SCRATCH with the PURGE option; e.g., I get the :>extents and map the free space on a volume, scratch the data :>set, and allocate one of mine with the appropriate space :>amount(s), and I have all the data unprotected. Wasn't done to protect the data - to prevent unplanned changes - such as even a SP accidentally doing a save. Did scratch purge bypass the prompt? :>> That was for protection. I remember that we used expiration dates on all :>> system datasets. :>See above. Password protected data sets with no PASSWORD data :>set entries were much safer, especially if xMASPZAP was renamed :>or front-ended. Different needs for protection. -- 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
