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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Communications Server
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 28, 2022

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z/OSMF zERT-Plugin - Database access privileges

We created a service id to be used as zERT Network Analyzer database user ID as described in the document (https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/erin-zhang1/2020/04/03/zert-best-practices-sorting-out-the-different-zos )

It´s working fine but client is asking us to check another possibility. They want to have another layer of access that would be able only to see the reports and download it (export to excel).


I tried myself to create another RACF group with only SELECT privilege access to the all zERT tables but we´re getting the message:

IZUET0044E: SESSION.ALERTS.COULD_NOT_VERIFY_SCHEMA


Is it possible to create an specific SAF resource or RACF group that would have READ-ONLY access to the Queries reports.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 12, 2022
    As written, this idea is not feasible because of the way the zERT Network Analyzer uses JDBC and the underlying database schema to execute queries and access the resulting output. As such, this Idea is being rejected.

    Is your concern really at the database access layer, or is your real goal to have some level of role-based access controls within the zERT Network Analyzer application itself? For example, there could be a role that can only execute queries and view the reports, another that can create, update and delete queries, and another that can perform imports and database pruining operations? If role-based access control is what you are looking for, then please open a new requirement asking for this type of function.

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