CA Datacom RC 15 (139) RACF External Security Violation

Products

• Datacom
• DATACOM - AD
• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER
• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• PAM CLIENT FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• MAINFRAME CONNECTOR FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware

Issue/Introduction

CA Datacom using RACF external security getting return code 15 (139) security violation even though all the RACF security rules are defined.
In Dataquery getting error DQ804E - YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO ACCESS THIS TABLE   

Environment

z/OS and RACF security

Resolution

With RACF, the class names are translated to have a @ in the 3rd position. So for example, class DTTABLE becomes [email protected]  This is done in CA Common Services (CCS) component CAISSF (Standard Security Facility) .

For CCS Version 14.1 and above this is done in the CAS9 startup JCL with a CAIRACF DD statement. 

​//CAIRACF DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CAI.CAW0OPTN(RACFLIST)

For CCS releases prior to 14.1, the CAS9SAFC source needs to be modified and then reassembled and linked.

Additional Information

See DocOps section Modify RACF Class Table Entries If Required