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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories RACF
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 14, 2017

Allow allocation of RRSFLIST to be suppressed

RACF RRSF ALU command with AT or ONLYAT results in allocation of the RRSFLIST data set with limited naming conventions and no ability to suppress.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Mar 1, 2023
    This item is a valid requirement but unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan. If this requirement is high value, please re-open it, or open a new requirement.
  • Guest
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    Oct 11, 2017

    Thank you for your comment and suggestion. In this situation, the userid belongs to a started task. Information Security does not assign a TSO segment to started tasks to limit the risk of the elevated privileges of the userid from being exploited.

    There is also no ALIAS for the userid, and that results in an attempt to catalog the data set in the master catalog (resulting in a security violation, as we protect the master catalog from update). If we were to define it, we'd need to manage the data set, as the started task performs many ALU commands per day.

    An ability to suppress the RRSFLIST seems to me to be a better approach.

  • Guest
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    Oct 10, 2017

    Have you considered setting a TSO prefix for the userid, then granting permission to that prefixed file? Are the messages that RRSF issues in the same scenario also a problem? Thank you.