Re: Activation Group and RCLACTGRP

I’m with Charles on this. Particularly with the raining hell with the vendor bit.

What worries me most is that if the vendor has such a poor understanding of ILE that they think this is a) Necessary and b) a good idea - then I’d be seriously worried about the reliability of the rest of their code.

On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:25 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In one sense, it's a bad idea.

If the vendor was smart, they'd be qualifying command calls with QSYS or
better yet one of the the special values *NLVLIBL or *SYSTEM...

Your technique is one IBM doesn't recommend anymore for security reasons.
Sure, it's handy being able to substitute your command for IBMs. But it's
also the very definition of a computer "Trojan horse".

The more secure way is to use the retrieve command exit point
(QIBM_QCA_RTV_COMMAND) or the change command exit point
(QIBM_QCA_CHG_COMMAND).

OTOH, if the vendor was smart, they wouldn't be using RCLACTGRP *ELIGIBLE.

Personally, I'd be raising holy #$!! with the vendor.

Charles

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:12 PM, <paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+1

I don't know if this is a good idea or not, but it seems like a decent
solution. I like it.

Paul

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Hiebert, Chris
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 6:03 PM
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Subject: Re: Activation Group and RCLACTGRP

Thanks for everyone's suggestions.

I ended up just writing a new RCLACTGRP command this morning.
Here is the source:
http://code.midrange.com/d2db1bea07.html

We've placed it in a library that is above QSYS in our system library list.

The program passes RCLACTGRP commands to QSYS/QWVCCDLA (The CPP for
RCLACTGRP).
When the activation group is specified, the new program passes the input
straight into QSYS/QWVCCDLA.

When *ELIGIBLE is passed, I use the Qwvolagp API to get the job's
activation
groups.
Then I process the list returned and ignore a list of named activation
groups.

We couldn't just ignore the RCLACTGRP ELIGIBLE call because the vendor's
product was relying on it to do some cleanup.
This way their call still works for their own activation groups, but our
small list of specific activation groups are safe.

Chris Hiebert
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author
and do not necessarily represent those of the company.

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