J entries, as I said, indicate the use of a job description that specifies a user profile. Most of the time, job descriptions are created so that the person using the job description is the profile under which the job runs. But the USER parameter can be specified with the name of a user profile….
At security level 40, the operating system prevents certain actions from being taken. Examples include calling an operating system program directly, accessing an internal control block, and using a job description that names a user profile in which the caller doesn’t have authority to the named profile. The good news is that, while not prevented…
If you’ve ever heard me speak on the Fundamentals of IBM i Security, you’ve heard me describe its three core aspects: system values, user profiles, and object security. It seems only appropriate then that the first part of this book describes how to modernize monitoring and managing these three core aspects, starting with system values….