The devil is in the details. What sort of security controls will IBM have for Python scripts in Netview?
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Steve Horein <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 5:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re; Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview Re: scripting: Not yet? https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com%2Fideas%2FZNETVIEW-I-42&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7C8c8d7d2a5eab4dd1366408dae2dc9915%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C638071734348128669%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=fMdTBHPlgDmp%2FQXiVTg2Ljd65m6dQGfsOzX42ri7YzY%3D&reserved=0 I am not the author of the idea, but I will certainly vote for it next time I'm logged on. On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 12:40 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > Doesn't NETVIEW run multiple users in the same address space? Can you > write NETVIEW scripts in anything other than CLIST and REXX? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Re; Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:31:37 +0000, Jack Zukt wrote: > > > >The glitch was the NETVIEW REXXSTRF value thas was set to the default > >DISABLE. While we wait for an IPL, the OVERRIDE solves the issue. > > > Please describe OVERRIDE. Is that a parameter to NETVIEW? > > Star Trek trope: > "Computer, access data base." > > "Access denied." > > "Override!" > > "Access granted." > > ... makes sense if "Override" is the root password. > > I'm puzzled. If the objective of DISABLE is to prevent access to > sensitive data, > wouldn't storage keys and segment protection be sufficient and necessary? > REXXSTRF would seem to restrict only REXX, not other programming languages. > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
