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Owned Transaction Security for MVS and VSE

The OTRAN resource class was introduced in CA Top Secret to allow transactions—which are ordinarily considered unowned—to be administered as owned resources. By allowing transactions to be owned by various zones, divisions, or departments, the following applies:

• Security can be administered on a decentralized, application-by-application basis, and
• Access to each transaction can be be tailored with the same flexible restriction options available for other resources—such as day, time, level, path, and so on.

If a transaction is owned, it is protected from use by any user in any facility.

Consider all the users who may need that transaction (in both Test and Production regions) before using the OTRAN resource class.

Note: Transaction security through the OTRAN resource class overrides Limited Command Facility (LCF) protection. Once a transaction is owned, any appearance of it in an LCF list, whether inclusive or exclusive, is ignored.