On Saturday, 12/03/2005 at 07:44 CST, Rick Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Alan Altmark wrote:
> > I'm sorry; I must be hard of hearing, too.  I thought you said 
"inserted
> > the following code in the PROFILE EXEC".  I'm sure what you actually 
said
> > was "created an exit invoked by the :Exit. tag for the SMTP server 
(for
> > SETUP only)".  'cuz no one in their right (or left) mind would modify 
the
> > PROFILE EXEC of an IBM-provided TCP/IP server.  No one.
> 
> PROFILE EXEC is as much the domain of the VM/CMS customer
> as $HOME/.profile is the domain of the Unix customer.
> Some customers  [I say "some" because I don't want to have to
> define "many"]  have other profiling they wish to do to all SVMs.
> 
> Sir Charles,  we are not amused.   We are most annoyed.
> We are greatly offended when you lay claim to our user space
> and hijack it for your own cold purposes.   You may well say,
> "Your arrow;  your foot".   But take care where you tread,  sir,
> for the dragons may find you crunchy and tasty with ketchup.

Maybe *your* PROFILE EXECs are in the domain of the customer.  The ones in 
the TCP/IP server suite are not.  The PROFILE EXEC is a servicable part. 
IF we service it, unlikely though it may be, and you have not performed 
local mods via VMSES/E, your changes will be blown away by PUT2PROD or 
TCP2PROD.  TCPRUN was created in the first place to eliminate PROFILE EXEC 
as a source of ill-advised modification.  So we created a way for you to 
run your own programs (:Exit./TCPRUNXT) without having to modify our code.

SYSPROF is in your domain.  The [userid/nodeid/SYSTEM, not IBM!] DTCPARMS 
file, the file pointed to by the :Exit tag, and TCPRUNXT EXEC are all 
yours.  Everything else is labeled "Keep off the Grass". ;-)

A tempest in a teacup, of course, as I doubt we'll ever have to service 
PROFILE EXEC!! 

[And that's "Sir Alan". The Chuckster has never been knighted.  :-)]

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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