PARMLIB SCHEDxx member (PPT) NOPASS and NOPASS_ALLOWBATCH support

Products

• ACF2
• ACF2 - DB2 Option
• ACF2 for zVM
• ACF2 - z/OS
• ACF2 - MISC
• PanApt
• PanAudit

Issue/Introduction

Introduction: 

Reference IBM's MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference manual in the chapter for SCHEDxx, under PPT. This discusses how NOPASS and NOPASS_ALLOWBATCH can bypass security protection. PASS is the default.

 

 

 

 

 

Environment

Release: 15.0
Component: ACF2MS

Resolution

CA ACF2 does not honor NOPASS. Neither NOPASS (nor NOPASS_ALLOWBATCH) allow the program to bypass CA ACF2 security.