When defining RACF profiles for the Datacom/AD External Security configuration used with CA 7, can the STC name for the MUF be used instead of the CXX name as the high-order identifier?

Products

• Datacom
• DATACOM - AD

Issue/Introduction

We are currently installing CA Workload Automation CA 7 Edition version 12.0 (called CA 7), and as part of the Datacom/AD installation, we are running job CAL2OPTN(AL2RACFD) to define the RACF profiles needed for CA Datacom External Security. When defining RACF profiles for the Datacom/AD External Security configuration used with CA 7, can the STC name for the MUF be used instead of the CXX name as the high-order identifier?

This job shows that the CXX name is used as the high-order portion of the profile name. Is this required, or is it possible to use the STC name of the CA Datacom/AD MUF or some other identifier?

 

Environment

Datacom-Database-Option for CICS Services R15.1

Resolution

Datacom bases all of its external security processing on the CXX name, which must be unique for every MUF. Since you could theoretically use the same STC name for different MUFs on multiple LPARs, this would not be a clear way to identify which MUF needs to have this security applied.

Consequently, when we are building the resource names inside the programs, they are defined with the CXX name as the high-order portion of the resource to be validated.