Execute REXX/CLIST with the authority of another ID

subhra · New User Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 3 Location: INDIA

How can I execute a REXX/CLIST from my session with the authority of another ID.
Given that the userid and the password is known.

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:41 am

Hello,

Why do you need the authority of another user?

If the task is something you are authorized to do, you need to be granted the permissions or put into a group that does.

This is something to talk with your security admins or management about.

subhra · New User Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 3 Location: INDIA

Very often we lose connectivity to the mainframe which locks out our TPX sessions.
To login again we either have to wait for the session to timeout or we have to request the minframe monotoring team to cancel our session so that we can login again. Both ways it takes quite a long time before we can resume work.

I was looking for a possible REXX/CLIST which we can use from someone else's session to kill our sesssion to enable us to login again.

I have rexx which to kill my own session but it cannot be used to kill someone else's session for lack of authority. Hence I was looking for a way to execute the same rexx with the authority of another user.

I hope I have been able to convey the requirement.

Please do let me know if there is a simpler solution to this than what I am thinking.

superk · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:08 pm

Don't know how your shop has setup TPX, but you should be able to cancel your own session(s) using TPX.

Otherwise, the only option I can think of is to run your code in batch, using the required userid/password on the JOB statement.

superk · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:14 pm

subhra · New User Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 3 Location: INDIA

Superk,

Thanks for your advice.

I was able to run the rexx in batch mode and kill the session.

- Subhra