To correct myself, there is a type SS record. I almost never see them. There are also type A, SC, SD, and SC records which could contain sensitive data.
Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > I found the patent filing to be an amusing read, at least with respect > to > the z/OS specific stuff. There is no SS type of dump record. And if you > wanted > to process a dump, you certainly wouldn't do it by reading the raw dump > records > (as that wouldn't work very well for data which crosses a 4k boundary (and > thus crosses a dump record boundary). You would do it by writing an IPCS > VERBEXIT program, or a Rexx exec, which uses IPCS services to access the > dump, and prepare the lists of storage ranges for modification and/or > modification > avoidance. The ranges would then be input to an IPCS function which would > use > the IPCS storage map to translate the address ranges into ranges within > dump > records. And then that would be the input into a program which does the > copying > with modifications. > > We did have a meeting in z/OS development quite a few years ago to > discuss > someone's wish for this type of function for z/OS dumps. We concluded > that > in general, identifying the sensitive data to be modified would be so > problematic > that it was not worth pursuing. > > Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. > Poughkeepsie NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
