Determine $VPS Resources With Top Secret

Products

• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

Products VMCF and VPS allow a user to manage a specific print queue. What resource names in the $VPS resource class are needed to protect specific print queues? The calls for the $VPS resources are issued with LOG=NONE, so none of these calls get logged to the audit file nor do they show in the TSSUTIL report. 

Environment

Release : 16.0

Component :

Resolution

- The documentation for VMCF says there is an APPL logon check but nothing else. 

- The documentation for VPS says VPS uses the $VPS resource class and checks rules in the format of:
        VPS.stcname.ptrname   OR
        VPS.stcname.ptrgroup.