Comments on: Where did you say those backup tapes are kept http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/where-did-you-say-those-backup-tapes-are-kept/ A Search400.com blog Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:55:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bruno Naumann http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/where-did-you-say-those-backup-tapes-are-kept/#comment-281 Bruno Naumann Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:33:30 +0000 http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/03/23/where-did-you-say-those-backup-tapes-are-kept/#comment-281 Poor performance of your security administrator. It is obvious since the first release of S/38 in 1978 that the security profile of a programmer should have neither existence nor any update/add/delete rights to data files in production libraries.

The method you used was anyway poor as the production data changes constantly in real time. As you often have to repeat tests you should be able to rely on non changing input data. So it is a better practice to copy periodically (part of) the production data to a third library which serves as a source to renew the test library data files.

But if you have non professionals as system or security administrators …

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