I think Gil is on to something here. At SHARE conferences following announcement of the change, I got the impression that rank and file thought it was major overkill--even killing by friendly fire--to control product usage in this way. But the shotgun solution was mandated from on high to appease a minuscule subset of customers upset by some local shoot-your-foot catastrophe. It's not hard to manage. Create a RACF Group that has appropriate access to SMP/E, then connect each legitimate user to that group. Until someone moves in or out of the role, you're done.
. . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 06/27/2013 09:41 AM Subject: Re: GIMZIP (was: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:06:21 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >Here I agree strongly with Shmuel. Make the data read-only or >inaccessible if you must, but leave the tools alone. > In the intense discussion of this topic here in April 2010, IBM employes took the position that that is ineffective or not feasible. Since IBM's policies in such cases prohibit more detailed technical discussion, we are unable to assess the merits of that assertion. I continue to suspect that IBM could have provided a more narrowly targeted remedy, but chose not to do so, perhaps for reasons they're not allowed to discuss. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
