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Adding New Resources to the RDT

CA Top Secret security can also be extended to protect resources that are not currently listed in the RDT—such as resource classes that are part of IBM or other vendor software packages and even installation-defined resource classes. Normally, these types of resources would not trigger operating system interfaces to CA Top Secret and therefore no security calls would be issued. To implement security for them, customize CA Top Secret as well as system exits and application code.

You can use the following methods to add resources to the RDT:

• TSS ADDTO command
• TSS REPLACE command (to modify certain predefined RDT entries that have been reserved for this purpose)