On Tuesday, 12/11/2007 at 04:05 EST, Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> B) There "should" be no additional charge. Not having to maintain > separate authorization paradigms in each product just about has be less > expensive for the vendor. Certainly there would be an initial startup > cost, but that should be able to be amortized in a short time and then > it's all gravy :-) I would expect a free ESM to simply perform the same authorization check that the individual products/features currently have, but have those authorizations in a single place. The more granular checks I proposed would be something a real ESM would handle. Further, there would be no connection to CP. You could, of course, write your own ESM to replace the free one, but make sure that having a "roll your own" security manager is an acceptable policy in your shop. There is no way for IBM to give away a high-functioning ESM. That would undermine the market for ESMs, upsetting both IBM and CA. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
