[Info-vax] Unexpected DECnet Phase IV functionality with possible captive account implications

[Michael Moroney]

On 5/10/2021 2:20 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> I have come across some very unexpected DECnet Phase IV functionality
> while I was looking at the FAL specification.
> 
> Did you know that you can directly submit batch jobs using FAL from
> across the network without having to go anywhere near a command prompt
> on the target system ? The command procedure runs on SYS$BATCH on
> the target system as the user you have logged into with FAL on the
> target system.

More like an RMS feature, something which piggybacks on RMS $CLOSE. If 
you set the magic bit, the file gets submitted/printed when closed.

$ SUBMIT/REMOTE takes advantage of this, as does DCL $ CLOSE/DISPOSITION