On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:32:39 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 7/21/2016 10:05 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: >> I gotta ask, how on earth have you guys survived all these years >> without system symbols support enabled in JES? > >Never mind. I answered my own question. > >It's been only three years since this support became generally available >in JES2. > Prior to that, was it only for JES3? What's the default setting?
Mainframe security has long been based on "Need to Know". Our admin is fairly compliant: "Yes" is often a sufficient answer to "Need to know?" And we like to test our products in a most restrictive system comfiguration. Testing requirements increas exponentially with the number of configurable system options. And remember how few years ago a FAQ in these fora was, "How can we prevent our programmers' using OS/390 UNIX System Services if they can't attest to a need?" Still, I'm glad that there is no RACF class to (DIS)ALLOW use of (the similar) UNIX environment variables -- generally I share your perplexity. >Prior to that, it was available to started tasks only. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
