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A few alternatives to consider:
- You could use z/OS Communications Server SMF records to provide a complete record of TCP connection establishment and termination:
- An SMF type 119 subtype 1 record can be written each time a TCP connection is established, and a subtype 2 record can be written each
time a TCP connection terminates.
- You could also use z/OS Encryption Readiness Technology (zERT) SMF 119 subtype 11 records in a similar fashion. The basic zERT function
can write SMF type 119 subtype 11 records for each individual TCP and EE connection. Depending on the length of time the connection exists,
you will get either a single SMF 119-11 record (written at connection termination if the connection lasts less than 10 seconds) or two records
(one at connection initiation and another at connection termination if the connection lives longer than 10 seconds).
- You could use zERT policy-based enforcement to log a message to syslogd each time a TCP connection is established, along with its security
attributes. You would have to install such a rule for each cryptographic protocol you use in your shop – TLS, SSH, and IPsec – as well as another
for unprotected traffic. zERT enforcement does not log connection termination though.