On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:05:00 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
>
>:>Why have such a special list rather than merely verifying that the program
>:>resides in an APF authorized library and was linked with AC=1?
>
>Because a program expecting to be a job-step task may be spoofable, allocate
>storage in a key where parallel tasks can update it, etc.
> 
Sigh.  I keep forgetting (wishful thinking?) what a primitive OS z/OS is;
that it provides no simple way a program can protect its storage from
meddling by others.  z/OS still thinks it's running on a s/360.

-- gil

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