Region Abends And Has To Be Recycled After Top Secret Violation

Products

• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

Sometimes a product attempts to submit a job with a user id to which the region acid is not permitted. When this happens, the region abends and has to be recycled. Is there a way to prevent the region from abending and having to be recycled, but still have the violation if the region acid is not permitted to the ACID under which the job is to run? 

Resolution

Set the NOABEND control option on the facility associated with the region. NOABEND says a multiuser address space facility (CICS, IMS, CA-Roscoe) will not abend if one user in the region causes a violation. This does not imply that the ACID used to define the Facility itself is immune from security abends during startup. If NOABEND is set, Top Secret will not cancel the user's activity even if the violations exceed the violation's threshold (VTHRESH). Top Secret locks the user's terminal.