Re: PTF's Installed on Production Servers

To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:12 PM
Subject: PTF's Installed on Production Servers

I am getting pounded by auditors on an issue, and I would like to know what

other admin's are doing about this. Our auditors are asking to see testing

resulting from installing ptf's from IBM on our Production Servers.
Although I do have a test partition, I do not install every ptf I need on

that partition first. I do not have enough space on that partition for all

testing of all applications just because I put on some ptf's!

What are other folks doing?  We do go through a change process procedure
that includes management approving the install of the ptf's.

Thanks, Larry

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Larry Ketzes
iSeries Senior System Administrator
American Life Insurance Company

One ALICO Plaza
600 King Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Phone: 302-594-2146
Mobile: 302-559-1631

Fax: 302-830-4524


Email: larry.ketzes@xxxxxxx




-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:06 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Verifying Existence of a File on a Server

I was afraid of that.  There's no way I'm going to ask my overworked
system administrator to ensure everybody that can use this function has
an i.d. on the Windows server.

Ask your administrator for a single account on the Windows server -- one
that has access to the files you need to check for.  Create an iSeries
profile with the same name and password as the Windows account.  When you
need to check existence, use the profile handle APIs to swap to that
particular iSeries account, then check access, then swap back.  This way
all access to the Windows server is from that one particular ID.
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