Initialization Best Practices

Protect Critical System and User Data Sets

Secure the CA Datacom critical system and user data sets to protect against an accidental or planned intrusion. These data sets are both non-database “system” data sets as well as those data sets that house system and user databases. Certain system data sets can contain customer data in a readable form.

While the CA Datacom external security interface can protect access to the system data sets, systems database data sets, and user database data sets, it does not protect against direct data set access using tools such as IEBGENR or IEBCOPY.

Business Value

Using external security data set protection for these data sets increases your ability to secure and protect your database environment from inadvertent or planned intrusion.