Re: mkdir() API and IFS authorities

[Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael, Kevin,

Apologies for the confusion.

Michael, can you provide your code so that I can see if I spot any errors?

Thanks!


On 12/30/2019 3:28 PM, Michael Quigley wrote:
> Scott,
>
> It's not Kevin's problem. I'm the one with a problem. He was simply posting an example of how it's working as expected for him. My code is basically the same. (Mode actually ends up being 511 for me--I want everything for now. I will eventually trim that back before my code goes to production.) I am also on 7.3
>
> I've opened a CASE with IBM Support.
>
> The authority I end up with on the new folder is
>
>                Data     --Object Authorities--
> User        Authority  Exist  Mgt  Alter  Ref
>                                                
> *PUBLIC     *EXCLUDE
> PGMMJQ      *NONE        X     X     X     X
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Quigley
> Computer Services
> The Way international
> www.TheWay.org
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
> > Of Scott Klement
> > Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 3:42 PM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: mkdir() API and IFS authorities
> >
> > Kevin,
> >
> > Thanks for the example.  From what you've posted there, you are doing this:
> >
> > Mode = S_Ixusr   // My user profile - *X only
> >        + S_Iroth + S_Iwoth;  // Other (*PUBLIC) *RW Path =
> > '/kevin/mkdirtest/newfolder' + x'00'; Mkdir(%Addr(Path):Mode);
> >
> > This code looks like it was written for V3R2 with the manual x'00' and
> > %addr().  It'd be nice to modernize that a bit to use options(*string), but the
> > old way still works.
> >
> > As the comments say, you're asking for your user profile to have *X and the
> > public to have *RW.  in your screenshot that follows the code you show this:
> >
> > *PUBLIC     *RW
> > KEVIN       *X
> >
> > As far as I can tell, this is exactly what was expected.    Can you explain what
> > the trouble is?
> >
> > -SK