On Fri, 7 Jul 2017 08:05:42 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote:

>A colleague of mine just asked me if ISPF statistics in a data set, especially 
>the USERID field, can be manipulated. We used ISPF 3.5 and we were both 
>astonished that I was easily able to fake a userid as the one who last changed 
>a member (testing in my own dataset, of course). 
>
>This immediately raised the question for me if there is any RACF control that 
>would prevent this type of manipulation, especially since the userids in those 
>statistics are widely used as evidence. Does anyone know if there are such 
>RACF controls? A quick search in the ISPF books didn't turn up any hint.
> 
Use UNIX files rather than PDS members.  The analogous "chown" is a privileged 
command.

-- gil

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