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  • Subject: Re: Programmer Authorities
  • From: DAsmussen@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:02:28 -0400 (EDT)

Tim,

In a message dated 97-09-16 08:25:14 EDT, you write:

> How do other sites restrict their programming staff? Do you allow them
>  *JOBCTL or (shock horror) *ALLOBJ authority? Do they have access to live
>  programs and data or is there some form of change control? etc...

Do you mean on a production system, a development system, or a production
system on which development is done :-)?  *ALLOBJ is NEVER allowed in ANY of
the above situations.  Developers have *SAVRST authority on the development
box (to test programs that use these functions), but NOT on production.  All
live programs are updated via a change management system on the production
box.  Job Control is a MUST if the developers are responsible for halting
jobs in endless loops, although some of the COMM problems in recent OS/400
releases requires an ENDJOBABN to which developers DO NOT have access.  *USE
for programs and *CHANGE (we sometimes have to correct data) for files are
about it for developers in the production system.

One note -- those shops that do not allow command line access for developers
should be taken out and BEATEN!  Hamstringing developers because THEY refuse
to take adequate security precautions is ludicrous!

One Opinion,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"Let us be thankful for the fools.  But for them the rest of us could not
succeed." --(Mark Twain)
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