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Define USS Groups

CA Top Secret requires a unique GID for each group ACID.

The GROUP type ACID:

• Defines USS groups to CA Top Secret
• Contains the OMVS segment which consists of one field: the GID keyword

GID is a numeric field that accepts values from zero to 2,147,483,647.

You can assign up to 256 groups to a user.

Important! At least one OMVS group ACID must exist prior to implementation.

Example: creating and assigning a group

This example creates an OMVS GROUP ACID for a group called OMVSGRP and assign it a GID of 1.

TSS CREATE(OMVSGRP) TYPE(GROUP)
                    NAME(‘OMVSGROUP’)
                    DEPT(OMVSDEPT)

TSS ADD(OMVSGRP) GID(1)