Security Data Set Conversion

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Security Data Set Conversion

During installation, the conversion utility GSVXCNVS converts the security data set from a previous CA SYSVIEW release to the current release.

By default, the security file conversion marks command authorization for new commands as allowed.

Note: In previous releases, the default action was to fail new commands.

You can modify the default behavior by coding the SYSIN data set for the GSVXCNVS utility. The following example fails new commands for all groups except ADMIN:

//SYSIN  DD  *
  FAILNEWCMDS=YES,GROUP=*ALL*
  FAILNEWCMDS=NO,GROUP=ADMIN
/*

The input processes in the order that it is read and uses the last setting that applies to the user group.

The SPOOL resource has also been expanded to accommodate JES3:

JES2 now includes the full 6-byte volume name
JES3 includes the 8-byte DDname

Note: In prior releases of CA SYSVIEW, the SPOOL resource was a 2-byte suffix of the JES2 spool volume. Therefore, modify the resource name of your existing internal security rules for JES2 SPOOL to be the full spool volume name.