RE: Can We retire the QSECOFR userid?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Earl [mailto:john.earl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: RE: Can We retire the QSECOFR userid?
> 
> > 2. IBM install instructions requiring QSECOFR.
> <snip>
> > In case #2, IBM regularly requests PTF's, etc., to be done
> > under QSECOFR, at least up until a year or two ago.
> > Haven't been involved with that much lately.
> 
> OK, so here is the third possibility - an obvious one.  You 
> need QSECOFR for an OS upgrade.  That makes three cases...
> 
> > Obviously QSECOFR can be needed for certain DST/SST
> > recovery options kinds of things, as you mentioned. But
> > I've seen no need for it otherwise, except for the two
> > cases above, in some 15 years now.
> 
> And resetting DST makes a fourth...
> 

This is quickly starting to sound very much like the "What have the Romans ever 
done for us..." scene from Monty Pythons Life of Brian 

:o)

--phil