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Re: System administration without production data access?

In a previous life we had a system that worked pretty well, I think. The basic premise was that no developer should have access to corporate date, whether through applications or directly. A programmer that wanted access to a production box had to call the help desk, who logged the call and ran a command that activated audit logging on that user profile. It also put that profile on a authorization list that secured a command that swapped authority to that of QSECOFR (APIs for this) and then ran QCMD. When they leave QCMD, that command's CPP takes the profile off the AUTL. There's probably more to it, but that gives a lot of the process.

This was not a 24 x 7 shop, so after hours stuff was not so much an issue.
Cheers
Vern

At 11:48 AM 2/2/2004 -0500, you wrote: 
I've heard of a few shops having this "emergency" user profile available
for their developers.  One of our people went to a user group meeting in
which Charlie Massoglia suggested the same thing, and this person wanted
it here.  When I asked him when was the last time he was working off hours
and needed this, (and he 'was' here for years), he couldn't think of a
time.  There are several problems with this concept:
1)  'Most' times you are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
2)  Once they have access to it, they'll find all sorts of reasons to use
it, versus fixing their problems the right way.  For example some of the
developers are upset that they can't look at one joblog.  My suggestion,
fix it so that it doesn't have to run under a user profile with *ALLOBJ,
and your problem will be solved.  Hasn't happened yet.
3)  Some of our developers already have multiple id's on our development
machine.  Once they have one with *ALLOBJ they tend to use that profile
for everything except for rare occasions versus the other way around.

Rob Berendt



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