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Vol 6. No 12. Page 11. Note: SMF records can be altered or deleted the use of this exit!!
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IEFACTRT - termination exit * write selected job/step records to an installation/defined data set for further analysis. * include additional information in the SMF job/step termination records. * write special messages to SYSout to provide additional job/step statistics. * explain reason for operator cancelled jobs through a WTOR (write to operator with reply) command. * write an estimated job/step cost to SYSOUT. * keep a total of the CPU time (or other resources) used by specific users and flag their account number if they exceed their allowed limit(s). IEFUJP - job purge exit * SMF job purge record (type 26) could be used to summarise a job's activities in the system. IEFU29 - SMF dump exit * issue a WTO (write to operator) macro instruction requesting the operator to start the dump program. * initiate the SMF dump program automatically by submitting a job request to an internal reader. IEFU84 - SMF records exit * same functions as IEFU83 and same exposures!: As is the case throughout the MVS operating system, IBM has included frequent 'hooks' or exits for tailoring the system to meet individual installation needs. The SMF exits described above are just such an example. Auditors and security personnel should review all modifications to the operating systems to ensure these 'mods' are justified and perform.only the specific function they were designed to accomplish. Michael Sobol.
CANADIAN LAW BE CLARIFIED
TO
Judging by the rash of recent stories , either Canadian police are becoming adept at spotting computer crimes or there has been a mushrooming in the number of such crimes (in that country) over the last year. Following on from the news item in last month's bulletin ('Hacker uses data switch exchange') another case has arisen which revolves round communications and computer security.
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Three officers of the Toronto-based company Dial Data Services are now appealing against charges of violating Canadian criminal law for allegedly altering information held on computer files at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin data processing department of A 0 Smith Data Systems. The alleged offences are said (by the prosecution) to have taken place in 1982 and to have involved amendments to payroll data and other financial records held at Smith's, by means of remote terminals connected up by telephone lines. As the alteration of this data did not actually 'damage' the computer tape, and as none of the data was actually destroyed, the three accused argue that the sections of the Criminal Code under which they are charged does not apply. This argument was dismissed by the Ontario Supreme Court last June but is now being considered by the Ontario Court of Appeal. Legal specialists await the outcome with considerable interest as a test of the current limits of jurisdiction of Canadian federal law.
COMPUTER ERRORS: THE BAD NEWS AND THE GOOD NEWS
Jack Taylor, a 50 year-old cashier with the South Yorkshire County Council, was surprised to find that his bank account was overdrawn The cause? A cheque for E23.50 to pay by more than E2 million. his telephone bill had been misread by the computer as E2 350 000. Those of us with teenage kids would probably assume the bill was correct. David Schalls, a prisoner in Zephyrhills correctional Institute, Florida, thought that his luck was in when the prison's computer told the Governor it was time for his release. Prison staff drove Then the him to the bus station and then sent him on his way. error was spotted: he had been released 12 months too early. The following day, Mr Schwalls was rearrested and sent back to prison.
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IEFACTRT - termination exit * write selected job/step records to an installation/defined data set for further analysis. * include additional information in the SMF job/step termination records. * write special messages to SYSout to provide additional job/step statistics. * explain reason for operator cancelled jobs through a WTOR (write to operator with reply) command. * write an estimated job/step cost to SYSOUT. * keep a total of the CPU time (or other resources) used by specific users and flag their account number if they exceed their allowed limit(s). IEFUJP - job purge exit * SMF job purge record (type 26) could be used to summarise a job's activities in the system. IEFU29 - SMF dump exit * issue a WTO (write to operator) macro instruction requesting the operator to start the dump program. * initiate the SMF dump program automatically by submitting a job request to an internal reader. IEFU84 - SMF records exit * same functions as IEFU83 and same exposures!: As is the case throughout the MVS operating system, IBM has included frequent 'hooks' or exits for tailoring the system to meet individual installation needs. The SMF exits described above are just such an example. Auditors and security personnel should review all modifications to the operating systems to ensure these 'mods' are justified and perform.only the specific function they were designed to accomplish. Michael Sobol.
CANADIAN LAW BE CLARIFIED
TO
Judging by the rash of recent stories , either Canadian police are becoming adept at spotting computer crimes or there has been a mushrooming in the number of such crimes (in that country) over the last year. Following on from the news item in last month's bulletin ('Hacker uses data switch exchange') another case has arisen which revolves round communications and computer security.
0
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part of this
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Publishers
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(Information
% Business
Division),
Amsterdam.
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publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. [Readers in the U.S.A. - please see special regulations listed on back cover). No
Vol
6.
No
12. Page 12.
Three officers of the Toronto-based company Dial Data Services are now appealing against charges of violating Canadian criminal law for allegedly altering information held on computer files at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin data processing department of A 0 Smith Data Systems. The alleged offences are said (by the prosecution) to have taken place in 1982 and to have involved amendments to payroll data and other financial records held at Smith's, by means of remote terminals connected up by telephone lines. As the alteration of this data did not actually 'damage' the computer tape, and as none of the data was actually destroyed, the three accused argue that the sections of the Criminal Code under which they are charged does not apply. This argument was dismissed by the Ontario Supreme Court last June but is now being considered by the Ontario Court of Appeal. Legal specialists await the outcome with considerable interest as a test of the current limits of jurisdiction of Canadian federal law.
COMPUTER ERRORS: THE BAD NEWS AND THE GOOD NEWS
Jack Taylor, a 50 year-old cashier with the South Yorkshire County Council, was surprised to find that his bank account was overdrawn The cause? A cheque for E23.50 to pay by more than E2 million. his telephone bill had been misread by the computer as E2 350 000. Those of us with teenage kids would probably assume the bill was correct. David Schalls, a prisoner in Zephyrhills correctional Institute, Florida, thought that his luck was in when the prison's computer told the Governor it was time for his release. Prison staff drove Then the him to the bus station and then sent him on his way. error was spotted: he had been released 12 months too early. The following day, Mr Schwalls was rearrested and sent back to prison.
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Elsevier International Bulletins, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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