John Earl wrote:

>I put together something similar once, and discovered a big problem with
it.  The
>spool file can always be manipulated/changed/deleted by the person who
reated it
>(even if it's in an outq they have *EXCLUDE authority to :(  ).

>Our solution was to have an automatic SNDNETSPLF ship the spool file to
another
>system, into an outq that was *PUBLIC *EXCLUDE.  The new spool file ended
up
>being owned by  the owner of the SNDNETSPLF job, so it was slightly more
secure.



You can also attach a data queue to the output queue. Any time a spool file
is added to the output queue an entry is added to the data queue. You then
have a program running in the background which processes the spool file,
adding it to a log file or whatever.

Albert York


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