Steve, That’s what I am seeing, and IBM just confirmed it. I guess all we can do is give the contractor a slap on the hands, and move on.
IBM comments: Basically, authorization checking is done against the AIX being defined (ALTER access to the AIX cluster name as shown in the table above) not the VSAM dataset the AIX relates to. Checking against the related VSAM cluster will be done when accessed by BLDINDEX. So, this is working as intended and documented. If you wish, you could open an 'enhancement request' to have this behavior changed. _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IDCAMs DEF AIX authorization AS I remember, DEF AIX and PATH only operate in the CAT. The BLX would to the extract to the AIX -----Original Message----- From: "Jousma, David" <david.jou...@53.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:19am To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IDCAMs DEF AIX authorization All, I've got a PMR open with IBM asking the question, but thought I'd also pass this by the brain trust on this list. We recently had an off-shore contractor do a DEFINE AIX for a TEST dataset name, but RELATEd it to a PROD dataset name. The process was allowed surprisingly. Contractor only had read access to prod dataset. The subsequent BLDINDEX did fail with security violation as expected. Nightly processing of that prod file failed however due to the empty AIX. Seems like DEF AIX should have been disallowed if the user didn't have the appropriate access for what it was related too? Dave _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN