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CA IDMS Centralized Security

This section describes the purposes of centralized security and defines the CA IDMS security domain.

The purposes of CA IDMS centralized security are to provide the following:

• A system for protecting CA IDMS resources when an external security system is not available or not used to protect CA IDMS resources.
• A system for protecting CA IDMS resources that is not administered or enforced with user exits.
• A system that can interface with an external security system, such as CA Top Secret for z/OS or RACF®, for the protection of some CA IDMS resources.

Protection of resources external to CA IDMS is not a purpose of CA IDMS centralized security.

Security Domain

The CA IDMS security domain is the set of CA IDMS DC and UCF systems and local mode jobs that share a set of user definitions.

If you specify that CA IDMS user validation is to be performed by an external security system, the CA IDMS security is the corporate security domain. If user validation is performed by CA IDMS internal security, the CA IDMS security domain is the set of DC systems that share a user catalog, the repository of CA IDMS user definitions.

Note: For more information about CA IDMS user validation, see Signon Processing.