How does that interact with ICSF CHECKAUTH that forces security checks for
authorized address spaces?

Rob

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 9:56 PM Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 22:13:01 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
>
> >[Default] On 26 Jul 2018 16:54:23 -0700, (Walt Farrell) wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:54:48 -0500, Tom Marchant  wrote:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>>I believe there is one exception to that, unless the behavior has been
> changed in the past few years: as I recall, OPEN for a
> >>>>VSAM file will bypass security checking if the issuer of OPEN is
> running in supervisor state. I think it's documented (briefly)
> >>>>deep in some manual, but I forget which one.
> >>>
> >>>See the last sentence:
> >>>
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.idad400/ods.htm
> >>>
> >>>"Note: RACF protection supersedes password protection for a data set.
> RACF checking is bypassed for a caller that is in supervisor state or key
> 0."
> >>>
> >>
> >>Thanks, Tom. And, note, for those who may not follow the link, that that
> statement is for VSAM only.
> >
> >Why would they exclude only VSAM from checking?  Is it because of Page
> >Datasets or some other reason?  Are there other ways of bypassing or
> >ignoring checking for supervisor and key zero code?
> >
> My conjecture is that the VSAM address space itself performs the needed
> check.
>
> -- gil
>
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