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Report Generators

You should carefully scan the CA ACF2 for z/VM reports to ensure that your computer system remains secure. (Look for a mistake in the specification of an access rule, or an attempt to guess the password of an authorized user, and so on.) These reports produce information that highlights these events, but someone must be looking at the reports to take appropriate action.

Also, you can limit the output of a particular report according to the privileges and restrictions of the specific logonid that is running the report. See the Reports and Utilities Guide for a more detailed explanation of this option.

CA ACF2 for z/VM reports format and edit information from SMF records and CA ACF2 for z/VM databases to perform these tasks:

• Report recovery of the CA ACF2 for z/VM databases.
• Provide loggings of each ACFSERVE command that was issued. The ACFSERVE Command Tracking Log (ACFRPTCT) report identifies each type of ACFSERVE command and the logonid of the user who issued it.
• Format the data set violation, logging, trace records, program violations, and logging records.
• Report modifications made to resource rule sets and CA ACF2 for z/VM records on the Infostorage database.
• Report and edit information about high‑level indexes and their rules, including changes over an historical period.
• Report modifications made to logonid records, including before and after values for changed fields.
• Select the CA ACF2 for z/VM records from the SMF data sets and put them into separate files for further processing by other report generators.
• List password violations and LOGSHIFT system accesses.
• Report modifications made to access rule sets.
• Format the resource violation, logging, and trace records that apply to resources.
• Report and edit information on users (logonid records) according to criteria you specify.
• Provide cross‑reference information that ties users to access rules and resource rules, such as listing which logonids have access to which data sets.

You can read more about the CA ACF2 for z/VM reports and sample report output in the Reports and Utilities Guide. Besides these reports, CA Earl™ is shipped with CA ACF2 for z/VM. You can find complete details for using CA Earl™ in the Reporting with CA Earl™ Guide.