Interesting idea. If encryption is "overkill", then perhaps a simple checksum such as used by cksum. Very easy to do if the OP has a C compiler since there are so many examples on the Web.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Thomas Berg <[email protected]>wrote: > You got a couple of answers from those with knowledge. As they were not > quite positive I may chirp in with the suggestion of obfuscation. > E g encrypt a part or the whole of program X and let program Y decrypt > that at execution time. The decryption key and decryption routine may be > arbitrarily obfuscated. > (This of course assumes that program X can be changed in that way.) > > > > Regards > Thomas Berg > ________________________________________________________________ > Thomas Berg Specialist z/OS/IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) > > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > > För Charles Mills > > Skickat: den 11 februari 2013 23:33 > > Till: [email protected] > > Ämne: How do people lock down the compilers "inside" CA Endevor? > > > > This is a theoretical question. I am *not* an Endevor user. I am trying > > to solve a *similar* problem and this is the best way to explain it. > > > > Here's the question: at shops that use Endevor for all compiles, how do > > you "lock down" the compilers so that programmers can only run the > > compilers under Endevor, not with plain old JCL? What about programmers > > who might have "private copies" of the compiler load libraries? > > > > (More generically, if X is a load module, is it possible to set things > > up such that program Y can run X, but PGM=X will never work? How? I > > have thought about engineering a rename to a name that JCL will not > > accept (but LINK will) but I would just as soon not get that weird; > > rather do things in a more supported way.) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Charles > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
