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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories USS
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 4, 2014

RELATED IDEAS

USS HealthChecks

We are requesting to add USS health checks to Health Checker for z/OS to validate correct USS configuration and also identify best practices.

Some items that we would like checked:

(1) Validate permission bits for /etc, /dev, /tmp (i.e. ensure tmp has sticky bit) -- perhaps validate permission bit settings against SYS1.SAMPLIB(BPXMKDIR)
(2) Ensure separate file systems for /etc, /dev, /tmp, /var etc...
(3) Ensure /etc/profile exists and that it is the latest version (from /samples)
(4) Version root file system is mounted read only
(5) Verify automove parameters are correct, i.e. /etc has automove=unmount, root is automove=yes
(6) If TFS is setup, verify correct setup
(7) If cron is setup, verify correct setup
(8) umask

There are others, just listed a few of the top ones.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 24, 2021

    .This item is not in our plans but is being kept in our backlog.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Dec 5, 2014

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #62942 in product z/OS.

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