This issue is a modern reincarnation of an old bugaboo dating to the lifetime of the original non-E SMP. At one time it was more or less verboten in many shops for a non-Sysprog to use IPCS. Not because of what a user might see in storage but because IPCS required access to SYS1.PARMIB. That allocation was hard coded in the product, and many auditors at the time believed that PARMLIB contained keys to the kingdom itself. Never mind that an application programmer could point IPCS to a SYSMDUMP to shortcut debugging. No PARMLIB, no IPCS.
In response to GUIDE (and perhaps SHARE) requirements, IBM finally allowed the parmllib allocation to point to any user-accessible library. Ed J is right that it's APF authorization that spooks many today to lock SMP/E away from those without proper 'security clearance'. It's time to make this valuable tool available to people who could use it to the benefit of their employers. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 07/24/2013 08:48 AM Subject: Re: SMP/E vs. NON SMPE Installs (Was BLKSIZE=3120) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> EJ has all but made my point for me. The question who should be able to use SMP/E and the question who should have write access to system libraries can be and need to be disentangled. We sysprogs tend to think about this problem in these narrow terms, but it is a more general one. Consider two application development groups, one for ap A and another for ap B. The members of the ap A group should not have write access to the Ap B group's libraries and vice versa. The principle involved is the same. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
