Re:  to trust or not to trust?

In one of his many crime boss movies, Robert D. Niro uttered this line of wise 
guy wisdom:  "If there's no doubt, then there's doubt."

Bill Fairchild
Columbia, South Carolina
USA

Awareness is the precursor to change.

> On 11/22/2024 6:14 PM EST Don Leahy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>  
> Cross contamination across various profle pools is a common occurrence at
> our shop where the locally developed tools failed to use a distinct
> APPLID.  I was one of the offenders until I learned better.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 18:06 Schmitt, Michael <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Our system allows multiple logins with profile sharing, but I never do it.
> > I don’t trust it. Even if every IBM application works, and even if every
> > third-party vendor application works, I don’t trust that our home-grown
> > applications would work. I think they’re making assumptions that the TSO id
> > = job name = unique name at this time. For example, it is safe to delete
> > and reallocate a data set userid.SOME.THING.
> >
> > I don’t even trust that the applications I wrote and maintain would work.
> >
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf
> > of Don Leahy <[email protected]>
> > Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
> > Date: Friday, November 22, 2024 at 5:01 PM
> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: Logon to TSO+ISPF on multiple LPAR's at the same time?
> >
> > Yes, and it’s not that difficult.  You can either use ISPF profile sharing
> > or use a separate ISPF profile data set on each LPAR.  I have done it both
> > ways.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 16:09 Paul Gilmartin <
> > [email protected]<mailto:
> > [email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:18:36 -0500, David Spiegel wrote:
> >
> > >All? ... No, just the //ISPPROF which can be fixed by including the LPAR
> > >name as part of the DSNAME. E.g. <userid>.ISPF.ISPPROF,<lpar-name>
> > >
> > Ouch!  Profile changes on any LPAR would not be effective on other
> > LPARs.  Many (but not all) users would find this unacceptable.  It is no
> > better than assigning multiple User IDs.
> >
> > But <
> > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibm.com%2Fdocs%2Fen%2Fzos%2F3.1.0%3Ftopic%3Dlogons-duplicate&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.schmitt%40dxc.com%7Cd3d3da1b33424f7e657208dd0b498967%7C93f33571550f43cfb09fcd331338d086%7C0%7C0%7C638679132662443719%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dL9Bbguv%2FbLtlf%2Fg0rd0LuraoUa4CY5BRqs0DQGg0cU%3D&reserved=0
> > ><https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=logons-duplicate> says:
> >      ISPF profile sharing or changes to default ISPF data set names
> >      might be needed to avoid errors in ISPF with multiple logons.
> >      See z/OS ISPF Planning and Customizing for more details about
> >      configuring ISPF to support multiple logons.
> >
> > "profile sharing"
> >
> > But the referenced document is an abstract containing
> > a circular reference.  I'll submit a Feedback.
> >
> > --
> > gil
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