TSSAUDIT CHANGES Report Lists changes made to the Top Secret Security File

Products

• Top Secret

Issue/Introduction

Resource access  rules disappeared from TSS database, the security admin. has to add them again before users were able to gain access to the system.

How can we trackback and find out how these rules missed and when. 

Environment

Release:16.0
Component: Top Secret

 

Resolution

The output from a TSSAUDIT report can be written to a dataset. The following DCB attributes are set by TSSAUDIT and cannot be changed: DSORG=PS, RECFM=FBA, LRECL=133, and BLKSIZE=1330.

Here is some sample jcl:

   //insert valid jobcard here   
   //TSSAUDIT EXEC PGM=TSSAUDIT,REGION=2048K   
   //AUDITOUT DD DSN=audit.output.dataset,DISP=SHR   
   //RECOVERY DD DSN=your.recover.file,DISP=SHR   
   //AUDITIN DD *   
   CHANGES   
   /* 

'audit.output.dataset' is the dataset for the output.
'your.recover.file' is the recovery file.