Is there a way in a multi-system environment to reduce the number of background user IDs that need to be added to security?

Products

• NetMaster Network Automation
• NetMaster Network Management for SNA
• NetMaster Network Management for TCP/IP
• NetMaster File Transfer Management

Issue/Introduction

Is there a way in a multi-system environment to reduce the number of background user IDs that need to be added to security?

Resolution

Yes, you can reduce the number of background user IDs that are added to security by specifying the same value for NMSUP

in all regions.  

 

By specifying the same value for NMSUP in all regions, you only have to add one background user to security.  For example, if

 

you set NMSUP to MFNM in all regions, then the user ID for the xxxx BSYS background users in those regions is

 

MFNMBSYS.  To use NMSUP, add the following statement to the TESTEXEC(RUNSYSIN) members for

 

the regions, using the same xxxx value:  PPREF='NMSUP=xxxx' .

 

This is discussed under Background Users as a topic of Security Considerations at this location:

 

 

Below is a snippet from the manual:

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This practice helps simplifying the administration of internal background user IDs, and reduces the possibility of outages because

of nonexistent or incorrectly defined User IDs.  NetMaster NM for TCP/IP uses background users to perform various tasks.  By

default, the NMSAF solution checks the background user IDs in advanced program-to-program communications (APPC).

Add them to your installed security product.

 

 

 

 

Additional Information

For information about SXCTL, see SXCTL Parameter File.

 

Note:

The following NMSAF SXCTL parameters set the user ID checking:  APPCCHECK and SYSCHECK.

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The following list identifies the background user IDs:

 

xxxxAOMP

 

xxxxBLOG

 

xxxxBMON

 

xxxxBSVR

 

xxxxBSYS

 

xxxxLOGP

 

xxxx is the prefix specified by the NMSUP region job control language (JCL) parameter.