Re: protecting ISPF dataset allocations

Some might argue that it is a programmer's job to screw up and break stuff.

Give them the READY prompt back.

Protect your resources and don't worry about how folks do things. Any restrictions just make their job harder than it needs to be.

Wait. Are you a competitor? If you are, then disregard and put as many restrictions on your programmers as you can think of. That makes your costs go up, stifles innovation, and our sales people much happier :-)

My $0.02 (before taxes)



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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jousma, David
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:00 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: protecting ISPF dataset allocations

All,

Is there any mechanism or approach to protect a TSO/ISPF user from
accidentally/intentionally FREEing SYSPROC or SYSEXEC? Until now, our
shop has been mostly Roscoe users outside of tech support. We are
trying to migrate developer's to use TSO/ISPF, and want to protect the
environment where needed. I don't mind them using ALTLIB, and LIBDEF to
create their own "stuff", but I don't want them FREEing and reallocating
SYSPROC/SYSEXEC to concatenate their own stuff ahead of what we want
them to use. We already do not allow them to get to the READY prompt,
but testing shows that even when in ISPF I can still FREE
SYSPROC/SYSEXEC.

I want to allow some ingenuity, just not too much is all.

Dave

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