RE: QALWOBJRST

I would be interested in their reasoning. I might venture a guess that it was SOX-related. You're still calling the program using QCMDEXC--it just makes passing parameters back challenging. Which would eliminate changes--and might help with SOX as I understand. We're not subject to SOX so I'm not overly familiar with it.

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In the early days of the AS/400 the auditors blocked some calls between
programs. (I don't remember specifics). But I absolutely had to do it in some
cases, so I just called QCMDEXC to do the call.

--Alan


them restrict calling programs. I don't remember exxactly

On 03/27/2025 9:21 PM EDT Michael Quigley

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Yeah, you have to love it when auditors just follow a written script without

any understanding or reasoning. All we can do is laugh--it'll help us maintain
sanity.

In the case where *ALWPTF is required, the suggested policy is to change it

to *ALL or *ALWADP before a restore and then change it back to *ALWPTF
when the restore is done.

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"Whatever setting you use, you should have and document clear
reasons for the setting. (As Rob suggests, setting it to your
auditors recommendation can be a good, clear reason.)"

I chuckled at this line. We keep bumping heads doing restores that
adopt authority so I pushed back with the question of why it
couldn't be *ALL. The auditor's answer was "because they were told that

it should not be *ALL".

They had no other reason and didn't even know what the option was for.

I gave up. Not a hill worth dying on. ?



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