Re: IFS ownership

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was going to say I think the IFS APIs do allow that... otherwise I wonder
if you could put hooks into commands to do CHGOBJOWN, etc. afterwards.

Either way, there should be options on the IBM commands already.  But
there's not.  :(

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM Mark Waterbury <
mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Hi, Rob,
> Do you mean, without ANY programming? :-/
> There are some APIs that can be used in various combinations to probably
> give the desired results.
> For example, Carsten Flensburg wrote an article called "OVRGRPPRF" to
> Override the Group Profile.  So, in this way, you could allow certain users
> to temporarily (for the life of the job) change their primary group
> profile, to a group profile that is the desired owner of the IFS directory
> and all files to be created in that directory.
> Some of these kinds of things can also be done using the UNIX concepts of
> uid and gid -- and there are APIs to set and change those attributes.
> If you have access to Carsten's QTIPSRC you can search that source file
> for "IFS" and you should find some relevant topics.
> See also:
> https://apimymymy.wordpress.com/2004/12/16/apis-by-example-override-group-profile/
>
>
> for more details.
> Hope that helps,
> Mark S. Waterbury
>     On Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 05:36:58 PM EST, Rob Berendt <
> robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Is there any way to say any new object created in this directory should
> have the same owner as the owner of the directory?
> Is there any way to say any new object created in this directory should
> have the same authorization list as the directory itself?
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