APF (was: Mainframe hacking?)

2010-10-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:54:44 -0500, John McKown wrote: The SPFCOPY that I remember simply used a magic SVC to set the APF on before calling IEBCOPY and back off afterwards. I've heard of this. And that the magic SVC did extensive checkinf of control blocks to verify that it was properly called

Re: APF (was: Mainframe hacking?)

2010-10-15 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 10/15/2010 09:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:54:44 -0500, John McKown wrote: The SPFCOPY that I remember simply used a magic SVC to set the APF on before calling IEBCOPY and back off afterwards. I've heard of this. And that the magic SVC did extensive checkinf of

Re: APF (was: Mainframe hacking?)

2010-10-15 Thread John McKown
ISPF doesn't run APF. It uses the TSO IKJEFTSR function to run properly authorized programs and commands. At least, I think that's how it works. -- John McKown Maranatha! Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Oct 15, 2010 1:03 PM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: On 10/15/2010 09:27 AM,

Re: APF (was: Mainframe hacking?)

2010-10-15 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:07:54 -0500, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: ISPF doesn't run APF. It uses the TSO IKJEFTSR function to run properly authorized programs and commands. At least, I think that's how it works. True, but IKEFTSR did not exist back when the SPFCOPY SVC was

Re: APF (was: Mainframe hacking?)

2010-10-15 Thread Tony Harminc
On 15 October 2010 14:03, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: On 10/15/2010 09:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:54:44 -0500, John McKown wrote: The SPFCOPY that I remember simply used a magic SVC to set the APF on before calling IEBCOPY and back off afterwards. I've