What Is CICS SURROGAT Checking And The XUSER Setting?

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• CA Cleanup
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Issue/Introduction

Description:

What is SURROGAT user checking and what it does?

Solution:

The Top Secret Implementation: CICS Guide will go into detail on SURROGAT.

A surrogate user is a user who has the authority to start work on behalf of another user. A surrogate user is authorized to act for that user without knowing the other user's password.

There are two ways to enable surrogate user checking:

1. Specify XUSER=YES in the DFHSIT
2. Specify FACMATRX=YES and XUSER=YES for the CICS Facility control options.

Example:

With XUSER=YES, TEST02 can issue an EXEC CICS START TRANS(CEMT) USERID(TEST01)
The DEFAULT value for XUSER is XUSER=NO

Environment

Release:
Component: AWAGNT