Perhaps it is just the shops I've been in, but generally ICKDSF is secured to only SYS Progs & Storage Admins; the random programmer and or end user has no access to it and thereby can't format anything.
If you have the problem of folks using ICKDSF when they shouldn't; I'd take it up with your security folks. Garry E. Ward Senior Software Specialist Maritz Research Automotive Research Group 419-725-4123 -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 8:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What's best way to protect Linux Disk from OS/390? I'm sure there are any number of downsides if I thought about it long enough. I was mainly responding to your concern about your co-workers initializing something that was really in use. If you want something less technological, baseball bats come to mind. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Dave Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What's best way to protect Linux Disk from OS/390? In a message dated 6/7/2002 3:53:20 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > It's been a while since I've done it, but I believe ICKDSF will not > initialize (format) a volume that is online to the system. So, your best > bet may be to use the CDL disk layout and make sure they get varied online > to your OS/390 systems. Then you can use DF/DSS to back them up, they > won't > look empty to your co-workers, etc. > > Mark Post > hmmmm...I'll have to try this with FDRABR...since that's what I use. And..there's no down-side to leaving these volumes online to OS/390 ?? Dave
