Allow Operators To Sign On Multiple SMCS Consoles with Top Secret

Products

• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

In RACF,

RDEFINE OPECMDS (MVS.MULTIPLE.LOGON.CHECK)

allows all operators to logon to multiple consoles at the same time. 

What is the equivalent in Top Secret?

Resolution

According to the IBM documentation:

"When the security profile MVS.MULTIPLE.LOGON.CHECK is defined in the OPERCMDS class, an operator may log on to multiple consoles. Defining this profile allows all operators to log on multiple times. There is no limit to the number of consoles to which an operator may log on. Operators are still required to provide a password while logging on to each console."

Defining MVS.MULTIPLE.LOGON.CHECK in RACF allows ALL operators the ability to logon multple times. There is no granularity to limit it to certain operators.

The equivlanet in Top Secret is:

Example:

TSS ADD(owning_acid) OPERMCDS(MVS.) (skip if previously done)
TSS PER(ALL) OPERCMDS(MVS.MULTIPLE.LOGON.CHECK) ACCESS(READ)