On 2020-08-08, at 11:20:25, Robert Netzlof wrote: > > But do remember that in Ye Gude Auld Days, there was a widely known > "magic" SVC which granted authorization to the user. > "Widely known"? But wasn't it always site-specific, never distributed by IBM in a base system? Likewise Installation manuals always urged changing the password for IBMUSER.
> On 8/8/20, Doug Wegscheid wrote: >> Site-specific SVC to do so? >> >> On Saturday, August 8, 2020, 12:11:14 PM EDT,robin51 wrote: >> >> Padegs says that "none of our operating systems were [sic] programmed >> to turn in the [ASCII] bit". >> >> So, no-one was able to use the ASCII facility. -- gil
