[Info-vax] Some part of VMS attempting to execute SYSUAF.DAT

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In article <24d29ab9-e161-43d9-b2e4-c2289d1996e7 at googlegroups.com>, GerMarsh <marsh.family at tirhir.com> writes:
>On Monday, January 18, 2016 at 5:11:37 PM UTC, GerMarsh wrote:
>> I have seen an intermittent problem when a program using Websphere MQ routines attempts to execute the UAF data file. Bit like this...
>> 
>>  Terminal name:            FTA98:
>> Image name:               DSA6:[OFFICEMAN.][DECSUPP.MQ_DEV]MQPUT.EXE;2
>> Object class name:        FILE
>> Object owner:             [SYSTEM]
>> Object protection:        SYSTEM:RWED, OWNER:RWED, GROUP:, WORLD:
>> File name:                _DSA300:[VMS$COMMON.SYSEXE]SYSUAF.DAT;1
>> File ID:                  (20,1,0)
>> Access requested:         EXECUTE
>> 
>> I am pretty sure that I have seen such alarms with some VMS programs too.
>> 
>> I apologise profusely if I have missed some newsgroup article or even HP patch list which covers this but damned if I can find it!
>> 
>> Anyone any idea why any program routine would try to execute a data file?
>
>IBM have responded and it seems that the Execute is used as part of some VMS Ctrl function. I have found that execute is needed for privileged read access to global sections though and MQ does have a lot of them!
>
>I still do not understand why it is attempting to run a data file.

It's NOT!  

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