Then they need to control the dump, not IPCS. Otherwise their system is like a building with an unlisted address and an open door.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Schwab <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 7:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 64-bit application dump analysis [was: RE: Problems with ESTAEX invoked in AMODE 64 . . . ] They could have secret information running on the system and captured in the dump that they don't want you to view. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 12:33 PM Walt Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:10:18 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:54:58 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > >>ObSchiller IPCS is part of z/OS. All dangerous facilities of IPCS are > >>controlled by SAF. If your management capriciously prohibits you from using > >>it, the responsibility is theirs. It's certainly their prerogative to ban, > >>e.g., IEFBR14, but no outside company is obligated to rescue them from the > >>consequences of their decision. > >> > >>Not all companies take essential tools away from their application > >>developers. > >> > >I take your mention of IEFBR14 as hyperbole. But I have heard of sincere > >admin objections to application programmers' use of AMASPZAP, ADRDSSU, > >and CMS DDR. > > > >Is there perhaps not a security but a performance concern with IPCS? > > > > There is neither a security nor a performance issue. Merely a lack of > education on the part of those administrators, in my opinion. > > -- > Walt > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
