To summerise rob's and Walt's argument, the security applied to apf panel
in sdsf was a mistake and i believe ibm will remove it in next release...

You can't hold the stick from both sides.

ITschak

בתאריך 27 בינו׳ 2018 5:06 אחה״צ,‏ "Peter Relson" <[email protected]> כתב:

> As Rob Scott pointed out, the information displayed is available to any
> program. There is no system integrity issue with displaying any of this
> information.
> Changing that data to be fetch protected (which is the only way to protect
> it) would be unacceptably incompatible and would break existing tooling.
>
> If  a customer does not have their APF or PARMLIB or LNKLST or LPA
> libraries properly protected, that is a different matter entirely, and is
> one of the reasons why there is a RACF health check related to APF.
> Restricting DISASM would not gain anything practical, since it is already
> only displaying data that the user is permitted to access; restricting it
> would just cost an interested party a little bit of extra time.
>
> The information itself cannot be "exploited". Customer security gaps can
> be exploited.
>
> Security by obscurity (which is what you'd get to a small extent if what
> was asked for was implemented) is often only a little better than nothing.
>
>
> I'm quite sure that the request will be declined.
>
> Peter Relson
> z/OS Core Technology Design
>
>
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