Re: Secure coding practices

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

None of those really count as "secure coding practices" (well maybe under a
generic "error handling")

Take a look here
https://owasp.org/www-pdf-archive/OWASP_SCP_Quick_Reference_Guide_v2.pdf

Some of that isn't applicable if you're still using 5250...

Charles

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 3:11 PM Dave <dfx1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking to create some examples of secure vs non-secure code in RPG.
> I'm not finding it easy to come up with my own. I guess the most basic
> would be not checking the indicator after a chain operation, for example.
> But nobody does that(!) Then I thought of a few things that tend to bite
> you on the backside after a few weeks like a DS not initialized or nested
> DO's with file reads that both use %EOF without specifying the file name.
> But that only happens when you don't test properly. Anyone got any ideas?
> TIA!
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