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.
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