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Creating the Security File

The security file contains all security‑related information about users, profiles, departments, divisions, zones, and resources.

Important! A pre-r5.2 security file cannot be used with r15. A security file created with r15 cannot be used with r9 or lower.

The size of the security file does not affect CA Top Secret performance. The security file requires contiguous space on DASD. It is organized for direct access and can be located on a 3390 device.

DFSMS Extended Sequential data sets (multi volume data sets) are not supported.

If the security file is extended with the NEWPWBLOCK option, mixed-case passwords, special characters, and long passwords are allowed. Security files initialized with TSSMAINT from the r15 libraries are defined with the NEWPWBLOCK format by default.

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