Keywords › MODE Keyword—Operating Mode

MODE Keyword—Operating Mode

Valid on z/OS, z/VSE, and z/VM.

Use the MODE keyword to:

• Assign ownership of CA Top Secret operating modes to the master SCA (MSCA)
• Specify an operating MODE for a user, control or profile ACID.

A user or profile MODE will override the global and facility MODES.

When used with ADDTO, this keyword has the following format:

TSS ADDTO(sca acid) MODE(DORM,WARN,IMPL,FAIL)

When used with PERMIT this keyword has the following format:

TSS PERMIT(USER01) MODE(WARN)
                   FACILITY(BATCH,TSO)

Generally, administrators should only upgrade the mode.

This keyword is used with:

• The commands ADDTO, REMOVE, WHOOWNS, WHOHAS, PERMIT, and REVOKE
• The ACID types User, Profile, DCA, VCA, ZCA, LSCA, SCA, and MSCA
• MSCA ownership of all modes before they can be permitted. Modes can only be administered by an SCA ACID with MISC9(MODE) authority, via the TSS ADMIN function