Suppress RACF ICH408I message in TPX

Products

• TPX - Session Management

Issue/Introduction

When entering an invalid password the following message is displayed in TPX

PASSWORD/PASSWORD PHRASE OMITTED OR IS NOT CORRECT.
TRY AGAIN OR HIT 'CLEAR' TO CANCEL.
ICH408I USER (userid) GROUP (group-name) NAME (user-name)

How can this ICH408I message be suppressed?

Environment

Release: 5.4

Component: TPX for Z/OS

Resolution

If no SAF messages are required, they can be suppressed in the SMRT option “9 Security Parameters”  by changing “Return Messages from SAF:” to 'N'.

However, to target a specific message only (in this sample ICH408I), then the recommendation is to add #0000408 into the SAMT table.

To have the message added, follow the steps below:

1) Go to TPXADMIN.

2) Select option 2  ‘TPX System Options’ and press enter.

3) Select option 8  ‘Security Action/Message Processing (SAMT)’ and press enter.

4) Put an ‘s’ next to the table to be modified, and press enter.

5) To add an entry, type 'S entry-name' on the command line,
where entry-name is the name of the entry that needs to be added.
Then, press ENTER.  A new line, with the specified code appears.

For example, if message #0000408 needs to be added, type in ‘S #0000408’ in the command line.

6) Modify the fields as desired by typing the new values on the fields. If not sure what to add to each field, place the cursor into the field and press PF1. This will open a HELP panel with the available options with some description.

In this sample to suppress message ICH408I, go to the new added line with the #0000408 value, and under the 'Suppress message' column add a Y.

After the changes, it should look like this:

Security Action/Message Table: SAF                         

  Return Code/                 Cursor      Suppress        Substitute
   Message ID      Action     Position     Message         Message IDs
    #DFLTMSG         R        SNUSERV         N                      
    #DFLTRC          R        SNUSERV         N                      
    #0000408                                  Y         
 

7) PF3 out to save the changes.

8) Put the changes into effect by issuing the following command in TPXOPER:
RELOAD SAMT=table-name

Additional Information

For techdoc, review Add or Select Security Action/Message Table.