Introduction

Introduction

This guide provides information about installing and maintaining centralized security for CA IDMS resources. This guide is intended for the security administrator of the site.

The administrator should be familiar with concepts of CA IDMS/DB, CA IDMS/DC, and CA IDMS DC/UCF.

Note: If CA Top Secret for z/OS or CA ACF2 for z/OS is configured to protect CA IDMS resources for a release previous to CA IDMS Release 12.0, see the CA IDMS Conversion Notebook for information about security system conversion.

This document is both a user guide and a reference manual.

• Chapters 1-10 comprise the user guide portion of the document.

  Important: It is strongly recommended that you read Chapters 1-10 before designing and implementing security for CA IDMS.

• Chapters 11-17 contain reference information including security macro syntax.
• Appendixes A-D provide additional reference and usage information, including security macro JCL and security database record descriptions.

Note: This guide uses the terms CA IDMS/DB, CA IDMS/DC, CA IDMS UCF, DC/UCF, and CA IDMS DDS to identify specific CA IDMS components only when it is important to your understanding of the product.

This section contains the following topics:

Syntax Diagram Conventions