Prevent suspension an started task acid

Products

• Top Secret
• Top Secret - LDAP

Issue/Introduction

How to prevent the suspension of started task acids.

How do you prevent special acids used during the IPL from being suspended?

If they are suspended, the CPU/LPAR will not IPL.

Environment

Release: TOPSEC00200-15-Top Secret-Security
Component:

Resolution

You can give the acid the NOSUSPEND attribute, so it will never be suspended.

TSS ADD(acid) NOSUSPEND

This attribute should be used sparingly. Generally speaking, acids should be suspended if they exceed the violations threshold and helps with security attacks.