Why do deleted sessions for a user in CA TPX appear in TPXBATCH Report?

Products

• TPX - Session Management
• Vman Session Management for z/OS

Issue/Introduction

When I run a TPX batch report of users and their sessions some deleted sessions still appear. Why is that?

Environment

Release: NVINAM00200-5.4-TPX-Session Management-Access Management package
Component:

Resolution

When a user is assigned sessions via a profile and one of these sessions is deleted on a user level the record still exists but it is marked as deleted. It cannot be physically deleted from the ADMIN2 file because it belongs to a Profile and is not assigned directly to the user. You can reference this marker via TPXBATCH variable UENTDEL. UENTDEL specifies if a user session is deleted or not for that user.

So if you want to list users who have a specific session assigned you can use this EXTRACT Statement:

EXTRACT GIVING(EXT) USER AND MATCHING SESSIONS (
 UIDXNAME(--------) UENTAPPL(TSO))

The EXTRACT Dataset will contain all users which have a record TSO but all records with TSO being deleted for a user are also included. With the addition of parameter UENTDEL(N) you get only the records where TSO is not marked as deleted for users:

EXTRACT GIVING(EXT) USER AND MATCHING SESSIONS (
 UIDXNAME(--------) UENTAPPL(TSO) UENTDEL(N))

Additional Information

CA TPX 5.4 - CA TPX User Session Variables (by Variable Name)