Specifying Virtual Terminal Masking Rules › How Virtual Terminal Masks Are Used › Example One

Example One

As an example, suppose your site has physical and virtual terminals with the following IDs:

Only virtual terminals with IDs beginning with V, and physical terminals with IDs beginning with D, are authorized in CICS to run a secure transaction. So if a user initiates a CICS session on a physical terminal with an ID beginning with D, you want the product to assign a virtual terminal with an ID that begins with V to that session. Also, you do not want a virtual terminal beginning with V to be assigned to a physical terminal with an ID beginning with L. You indicate these rules with the following mask pairs:

The asterisks in the first virtual terminal mask indicate that CA TPX should use the virtual terminal ID that has the same ending characters as the physical terminal ID. So if a user initiates the session from the physical terminal with an ID of D72L001, this product assigns the virtual terminal with an ID of V72L001 to that session. The hyphens in the second pair of masks indicate that the product should assign a virtual terminal with an ID beginning with K to physical terminals beginning with L.