Some history will help you to understand.  When SFS came out with VM/SP R6:
- ACCESS was simple: your own filespace was always R/W, other spaces R/O; FORCERW/FORCERO did NOT exist
- only two 'classic' commands (COPYFILE and XEDIT) were able to 'update' files in filespaces other than your own, they didn't check if a dirid was accessed RW or RO, only the authority on the file was checked.
- Two other 'classic' commands (RENAME and ERASE) accepted a dirid in the parameters, what allowed them to work on any filespace.  When a "fm" is in the input parameters, they look at the accessmode, else at the authority on the file.

With the arrival of the FORCERO/FORCERW options for ACCESS, people started expecting that COPYFILE and XEDIT would refuse to update files in R/O accessed dirids.  So later the SET RORESPECT command was born.  But, the default remained like in the VM/SP R6 days, the rules of upward compatibility are respected.

Kris,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support



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Hello Everyone,

Just notice something on the SFS system.

I access a SFF as r/o
acc  uquest.support b

DMSACR723I B (VMSYSU:UQUEST.SUPPORT) R/O
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:22:36

And I can not delete stuff, which makes sense.

But I can copy the member and pack it.

Copy UXACC0   ASSER85  B1 = = = (pack


Is this right?


Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
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