V4R2 installed changed TCP server Autostart values

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have complained to IBM about this behavious I observed after a V4R1 to
V4R2 upgrade.
Has anyone else observed this ?


After doing a release upgrade from V4R1 to V4R2 and looking through
WRKACTJOB I noticed several jobs running in QSYSWRK subsystem that
should not have been there.  It appears that the release upgrade ALTERED
the AUTOSTART settings for several TCP/IP servers from *NO to *YES.
The servers I noticed altered (I did have some already set to *YES so it
may actually change others) were FTP, LPD, SNMP, POP, HTTP, REXEC !

Changing these defaults during a releae upgrade is TOTALLY unacceptable
behaviour from a security standpoint  - especially for servers like FTP
and REXEC. 

...Neil



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