Keywords › NOATS Keyword—Fail Automatic Terminal Signons

NOATS Keyword—Fail Automatic Terminal Signons

Valid on z/OS and z/VSE.

Use the NOATS keyword to fail Automatic Terminal Signons. If a user attempts to execute a transaction in CICS IMS or CA‑IDMS and has not signed on at an initial terminal session, CA Top Secret attempts to sign on the user to the application using an ACID identical to the local session terminal ID. This is done through Automatic Terminal Signon (ATS). If an ACID exists that matches the local session terminal ID but has the NOATS attribute, the ATS sign on of the last ACID fails. Depending on the options installed for the multi‑user address space, a default user may be assigned.

Automatic Terminal Signon is intended to assign a non‑powerful ACID to a terminal where temporary workers perform routine transaction processing without formal signons. The NOATS attribute is applied to a powerful ACID that might inadvertently be used for ATS processing. Such an ACID could be an CA Top Secret administrator or a privileged application client. Assigning NOATS to a privileged ACID is the administrator's responsibility and is not assigned by default.

This keyword has the following format:

TSS ADDTO(acid) NOATS

This keyword is used with:

• The commands CREATE, ADDTO, and REMOVE
• The ACID types User, Profile, DCA, VCA, ZCA, LSCA, SCA, and MSCA
• MISC1(NOATS) authority

Note: An administrator already defined to CA Top Secret will, by default, not have the NOATS administrative authority.

Examples: NOATS keyword

This example prevents USER01 from signing on via ATS.

TSS ADDTO(USER01) NOATS

This example removes the NOATS attribute:

TSS REMOVE(USER01) NOATS