Peter,

Thank you for your reply, I just wanted to make sure I did the pgm call
correctly before
I stuck my neck out.


Respectfully,
Scott

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:17 AM Peter Relson <[email protected]> wrote:

> The rule is simple. I do not understand why this topic continues to come
> up. It has been discussed many times.
>
> AC(1) is relevant for the EXEC PGM= Attach only. Otherwise it is ignored.
> And it applies when the concatenation is APF-authorized only.
> A concatenation is APF-authorized when all of the data sets in the
> concatenation are APF-authorized. Otherwise it is not APF-authorized.
>
> The LNKLST is treated specially. It can either be treated as entirely APF
> authorized (the system parameter LNKAUTH=LNKLST) or individual data sets
> can be analyzed (LNKAUTH=APFTAB). This applies to fetches that are
> accomplished from the LNKLST, not from a fetch from a concatenation that
> just happens to include a data set that is in the LNKLST.
>
> Chis B wrote
> <snip>
> If you LINK/LOAD/ATTACH a program from a library in the LNKLIST and you
> have only authorized individual libraries in the list, rather than the
> whole list, and you are calling a module in one of those unauthorized
> libraries, then your job (and I can't remember which) either becomes
> unauthorized or it fails with an abend.
> </snip>
>
> I'm not sure what Chris is referring to here. A job step never becomes
> unauthorized due to a module fetch. The rules from above apply to the EXEC
> PGM= Attach.
>
> In almost all cases, a fetch by an authorized caller (APF or supervisor
> state or system key) is expected to be satisfied by a module from an
> APF-authorized concatenation (or, when using the LNKLST, a LNKLST data set
> that is APF-authorized when LNKAUTH=APFTAB). If there is no success in
> finding a suitable module, then the fetch fails (usually with an abend).
> The concatenation could be defined via LNKLST, JOBLIB, STEPLIB, a tasklib,
> or any random DCB provided on the fetch request.
>
> There are z/OS Unix analogs of AC(1)..
>
> Peter Relson
> z/OS Core Technology Design
>
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