>Evidence of what Barb ? Don't hang anyone on this evidence. Anyone with >update access to the pds can update this field..
My colleague asked me on Friday if it is possible to fake the ISPF Statistics. I already knew that you can write them yourself using something other than ISPF. So we tested how easy it would be to change them. Apparently in a former life my colleague was blamed for an error because his name was in that statistics field as the one who last changed, and he had never seen that member or that content before. Last year I was asked if the powers that be can use ISPF statistics as tracking who had changed a source code library (on a regular basis, and please no plugs for source control products!). I pointed them to ISPF 3.5 then and to the fact that STATS OFF will delete existing statistics. Fortunately my answer discouraged them enough so they didn't follow this scheme any further. I nevertheless do have STATS ON in the global (system) ISPCCONF. Which you can not use by using your own, preconcatenated version. That's what I mean by 'used as evidence'. And I wondered if it is just my ignorance or if there really is no way (as I suspected) to prevent unauthorized changing of the statistics. Thanks to all who answered. Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
