Re: Qshell authority

["Fred Kulack" <kulack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/20/2001 at 04:06:25 PM, "Shawn Church" <shawn@boxity.com> wrote:
I normally execute QSH or RUNJVA within batch jobs having at least *PGMR
class authority.  I now need to run a java program interactively within
normal *USER authority jobs, and fail with the following exceptions:

For QSH:
MCH3601 Pointer not set for location referenced
(No other messages are displayed)

For RUNJVA:
JVAB53A Unable to start Java shell, reason code 3401

These commands are executed within a CL owned by QPGMR and using *OWNER
adoptive authority, but QSH/STRQSH/JAVA/RUNJVA apparently do not honor
program adoptive authority, but rather use the current user profile for the
job.  I am at V4R5, with cumulative PTF level of 00294.  I have tried
several different ways to work around the problem, but to no avail.

I haven't found any APARs relating to this, and I don't see any discussions
of authority in the Qshell documentation.

Any advice is appreciated.
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Sorry, you need to change your design.
IFS doesn't support adopted authority.
And thus, you'll have a real difficult time getting
Java and/or Qshell to support it.

I recommend adopting authority to someone that
has enough authority to swap user profiles to
a specific user id associated only with your application.
Then, grant or revoke appropriate authorities to that
specific user or objects for that user.


"The stuff we call "software" is not like anything that human society
  is used to thinking about. Software is something like a machine, and
  something like mathematics, and something like language, and
  something like thought, and art, and information...
  but software is not in fact any of those other things."
Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown

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