On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 10:56:17 -0700 Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote:

:>--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> wrote:

:>From: Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]>
:>Subject: Re: Mainframe hacking (getting back on topic)
:>To: [email protected]
:>Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 6:42 AM

:>On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:14:48 -0400 Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]>
:>wrote:

:>:>Binyamin Dissen wrote:
:>:>> Before RACF there were expiration dates.

:>:>Expiration dates are too easy to bypass. 

:>Required access to the console.

:>-----------------------------
:>Not true... We had a programmer who wrote an SVC screener and issued the r 
xx,u for the update. He got away with it for quite some time. I was walking 
past the console one day and there were the messages and the reply flying past 
on the screen.

SVC screener = APF.

APF means that you can update the dataset without opening it.

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