Top Secret TSSUTIL EVENT(INIT) on RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFYX ( VFX)

Products

• Top Secret
• Top Secret - LDAP

Issue/Introduction

When running a TSSUTIL REPORT with EVENT(INIT) against certain acids no data is reported.

Yet if I run the report using EVENT(ALL) against the same acids I get VFX data reported and still no INITs.    

                     

Environment

Release :

Component : CA Top Secret for z/OS

Resolution

The VFX call is a RACROUTE REQ=VERIFYX. This validates the userid and password and creates a security environment, but VERIFYX does not create an ACEE control block. Instead, VERIFYX returns a UTOKEN that may be used for further authorization validation.   It does not actually do/create an "INIT" and therefore it does not report in the EVENT(INIT) and can only be reported in EVENT(ALL).