Planning Emergency Procedures › Emergency ACIDs

Emergency ACIDs

Establish procedures for emergency ACIDs when production problems occur that require the assistance of the systems or applications programmers when the security staff is unavailable.

The operators can assign an emergency ACID to the abending job which allows the job to process and records the access activity of the job.

There are two approaches you can use to design emergency ACID procedures:

• Create an emergency ACID with authority to access production resources. All production resources are permitted to this ACID. When defining an emergency ACID in this manner:
  • Audit this ACID at all times, so that your report shows when it is used and what the emergency ACID is accessing.
  • Do not use any of the security bypass attributes when creating the emergency ACID as an easy way of defining access to all production resources.
  • In an emergency, you can use a modified BYPASS(jobname).
  • The security bypass attributes turn off auditing for the resource class selected for that ACID.
• Create an emergency ACID in WARN mode with limited authority to access production resources. Only globally available production resources not defined in the ALL record should be permitted to this ACID. This includes resources such as production load libraries or global production programs. When using an emergency ACID in this manner only the violations are recorded.