RE: Buying an Exit point program

> message: 8
> date: Fri, 23 May 2003 13:24:25 -0500
> from: "Burns, Bryan" <burnsbm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: Buying an Exit point program
> 
> 
> What great benefits could we expect at level 40?

Just finished reading through the V5 Security Reference.  To summarize:

- No direct calls to system programs not documented as interfaces.  The only
problem this caused us was an undocumented call to a group job command.

- If a job description has a value for the User field, the person submitting
the job must be authorized to both the jobd and the usrprf.  At level 30,
the user only needs *USE for the jobd.

- At level 40 it is impossible to sign on without a user id and password.
Some subsystem descriptions could allow signon without those at level 30.

- At level 40 it is harder to modify system information directly (through
MI).

Pages 18-19 of the Security Reference will walk you through setting up the
necessary auditing to detect problems in moving to level 40.