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Creating Multiple SAFDEF Records

To create multiple SAFDEF records, append a qualifier to the record name in the format SAFDEFqual so that you can define a unique record ID for that SAFDEF record for a particular SYSID. The recid can be a maximum of 16 bytes. Therefore, you can specify a qualifier of up to ten characters. It must immediately follow the characters SAFDEF. If you use a period (.) as part of the qualifier string for the record name, CA ACF2 for VM counts it as one of the ten available characters.

For example, if you want to create a SAFDEF record for a VERIFY call from HSM and an AUTH call from HSM, you must use a qualifier to distinguish these two records. You could name the SAFDEF record for the VERIFY call SAFDEF.VERHSM and the SAFDEF record for the AUTH call SAFDEF.AUTHHSM. Naming records using qualifiers enables you to describe multiple unique environments and lets CA ACF2 for VM add the records to the database with unique identifiers.