VKG0845E SAMS is not authorized by STGADMIN or DFSMShsm AUTH DBA,ADDVOLHW

Products

• Vantage Storage Resource Manager

Issue/Introduction

The following error occurred when configuring the Vantage 'AUTO ADD VOL' function for a RACF system: 

VAN0723I FIREZERO of Automation Script GOA      ADDVOLHW Done-CnMax=00000 Now=
         Enabled                                                              
VKG0400I SMSSPARE TABLE REFRESHED,ADDVOLHW                                    
VKG0845E SAMS     is not authorized by STGADMIN or DFSMShsm AUTH DBA,ADDVOLHW 
VKG0400I Action SMS_ADD_HWM       Done For              1 Records,ADDVOLHW    

Also, it appears that the needed users have the required authority for this action, and SECURHSM (N) is set.

Environment

Release : 14.1

Cause

The VKGPARMS STGADMIN value is not set to the correct value. 

Resolution

In this case, the following STGADMIN parameter values provided successful results for the customer: 

In RACF environment -> STGADMIN(STGADMIN./)
In ACF2 environment -> STGADMIN(STGADMIN)

Note that in the case for RACF, a generic type of definition was needed for successful processing (specification of just 'STGADMIN' was not successful).  The specific FACILITY class profile name for which access is needed for the ICKDSF 'INIT' command is:  STGADMIN.ICK.INIT

 

Additional Information

Further info concerning using Generic profiles can be found here.

Further info concerning Protecting ICKDSF commands with RACF can be found here.