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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS DSS
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 12, 2023

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Zap a cloned zFS file with the correct audit-file id (auditfid) when it is created

Various auditing routines use the zFS supposedly-unique "file id" as opposed to the filesystem names, and have an issue when one or more datasets in the same shared-filesystem plex are using the same file id.  DFDSS is IBM's poster-child for manipulating zFS data--to copy a zFS for a new lpar or to dump a zFS to transmit to a new sysplex.  Yet for some reason, the copy and restore functions of DFDSS pop out datasets with the "parent's" file id.  To correct this, we would need to mount the copied file read-write and run a zFS admin "force" command to update the file id so it reflected the current volume and track location of the clones, and we'd need to remember to do that even with vendor-delivered code.  Why couldn't DFDSS do that internally as the dataset is created? Perhaps (if you can't distinguish between a zFS and just a linear-vsam) with some zFS-specific parm? 

This would simplify maintenance and make it more likely that audit programs don't detect "discrepancies" in our environments (especially if it was an automatic function).

See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=commands-zfsadm-setauditfid for more information.  If IBM wants this to be a unique file-id, I kind of think at least IBM products should be able to enforce that.

Idea priority Medium

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