TSS9080A Doing Temporary Shutdown Of CA Top Secret

Products

• Cleanup
• 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
• Top Secret
• Top Secret - LDAP
• Top Secret - VSE

Issue/Introduction

Description:

When doing a temp shutdown and restart of CA Top Secret, the following prompt is issued:

 	TSS9080A ENTER YOUR OPERATORID/PASSWORD FOR MODIFY ACCOUNTABILITY 

What is needed in the reply to this prompt? Is the MSCA required for this?

Solution:

When responding to the TSS9080A, the reply needs to contain the acid and password of an acid that has the CONSOLE attribute.

For example, if ACID BOB has a password of ABC, and a TSS ADD(BOB) CONSOLE was done to give the CONSOLE attribute, reply to the TSS9080A message with:

nn,BOB/ABC

where 'nn' is the reply number for the TSS9080A message.

This does not require the MSCA, an acid connected to the MSCA, or the MSCA's password. Just an id and password with the CONSOLE attribute.

Environment

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