Application programmers can't do that at all.  SAF controlled, no way around 
it.  Only initiators on test/QA LPAR are open to them.

System programmers and DBA's have different rules.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Karen Herle
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 1:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: How Does Your Shop Limit Testing in the Production LPAR

Hi All,

I am curious about how other mainframe shops deal with AD-HOC and test batch 
jobs that run in the PRODUCTION LPAR.

We have encountered several issues with programmers or DBAs running non 
production jobs on our production LPAR which cause CPU resource issues or DB2 
contention issues that have resulted in performance degradation to our CICS and 
production batch jobs.

How does your shop deal with this?  Do you restrict access to your production 
LPAR?  Are there processes to follow to request test or data mining, non 
production jobs in your production LPAR?  Do you use your security product 
(RACF/ACF2) to control the access to production data?

We are actively looking at our options at this time and I am trying to balance 
the need for programmers to access the production environment but also need to 
protect our 4 hour rolling average and contention with DB2/CICS.

Any and all comments welcome. 

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