> On Dec 14, 2016, at 5:59 PM, John Eells <[email protected]> wrote: > > Password protection of catalogs has not been supported for some time now. > The current AMS book says: > > "Passwords are no longer honored for protecting a catalog, or data sets > contained in a catalog. If they are specified, they will be ignored and no > message will be issued. Previously, passwords were ignored only for > SMS-managed data sets. You should use z/OS Security Server RACF® or an > equivalent security package, to protect your data. Most instances of > passwords have been deleted from this publication. Passwords in keywords such > as ATTEMPTS, AUTHORIZATION, CODE, and LOCK will be ignored.”
As II indicated previously this was basic MVS. *NOW* I believe that RACF can be depended on and I accede that RACF is the best answer. Ed > > Edward Gould wrote: >>> On Dec 14, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Edward Gould <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thirty + years ago (pre-RACF) we put update password on the mastercats. >>> Worked like a charm for us. >>> >>> Ed >>>> On Dec 14, 2016, at 1:16 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Jesse Robinson wrote: >>>> >>>>> And once you have all protections in place, remember that someone has to >>>>> have the key to master catalog. Whoever that is--including you--may >>>>> occasionally get caught by a missing alias. At every shop I've worked in, >>>>> userids are defined and managed by a non-sysprog department. If they set >>>>> up a new user, especially a new sysprog, a missing alias may be caught >>>>> only after many data sets have gone to master catalog. So it pays to >>>>> check now and again even with all recommended protections set up. >> >>>> I didn’t say it was perfect solution but that it worked. BTW we used ALTER >>>> (IDCAMS) to put the password on. >> This is a quick and dirty way of doing it. >> > <snip> > > -- > John Eells > IBM Poughkeepsie > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with > the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
