On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 5:23 PM Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote:
> I would not convert it to LE. > > I have strong feelings that any system tool like this must be able to > run in a crippled system with as little support from the OS as possible. > Hum. I hadn't thought of running this in a "crippled" environment. I would have imagined that I would be logged into the z/VM "console" for the z/OS guest to interactively issue CP commands, rather than via TSO or batch. > > As an opinion, I think that simple programs like this should not be > converted to base-less programming either. One, there is no need and > second, I believe that abend fixing is easier with a base address. > > KISS rules. :-) > True. I think that baseless programming is actually simpler. But in a very short routine like this one, it doesn't really make much of a difference. Almost all of the "application" code that I write now is baseless, with R&I instructions as well as LE enabled. Why LE? Because I can then use a lot of LE routines as well a C language subroutines, such as "snprintf" (which is wonderful to make nicely formatted messages). There are some nice ones. I know that many still hate LE, but I have learned to love the pain. > > I have no real opinion about making a unix command as I don't really use > unix that much, but personally I would prefer that a unix user not have > access to VM commands. > I do a _LOT_ of z/OS UNIX shell scripting. I can do a UNIX shell script and get an answer faster than writing a TSO REXX program. Why should a TSO user have access, but not a UNIX user? I, personally, don't see any difference. I like what I read from Mr. Elliot about using RACF to restrict access to this program. Of course, this can be done implicitly done by putting the code in a place where unauthorized user cannot access it. I.e. no access to the STEPLIB or UNIX directory which contains the program. Of course, for me, all of this is theoretical because I don't have access to a z/VM system. > > Tony Thigpen > > -- This is clearly another case of too many mad scientists, and not enough hunchbacks. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
