You're not going to find any information about the SECINT APAR other than IBM 
opened it. There's not much to go on to decide on prioritizing which are more 
important than others. A systems programmer can potentially dig a little deeper 
into that question, but is still flying somewhat blind.

Mark Jacobs   


Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email.

GPG Public Key - 
https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected]

On Thursday, June 4th, 2026 at 7:40 AM, [email protected] 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
> I work as a RACF administrator. In our shop, Sysprogs belong to a separate 
> department. As a security administrator, I have been authorized to access the 
> "IBM Security Portal". I see there that IBM regularly updates a list of 
> SECINT APARs (and also issue more detailed "Security Notices", often 
> describing a security problem and its solution, if any).
> Question:What role do you think should review this list of SECINT APARs and 
> evaluate what PTFs should be applied:Security Admin?Sysprog?Both (working 
> together)?
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Juan Mautalen
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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

Reply via email to