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Introduction to Reporting

System administrators and auditors can use different types and levels of reports to obtain security information. The following CA Top Secret for z/VM utility programs are available.

Important! For the utilities to work, you must link and access the AKVMAINT ADMIN disk (176), ALTADMIN disk (276), or PREVADMIN disk (476), based on the CA Top Secret environment that you are running. The TSSREPT report function also needs to link and access the ZCAMAINT PUBLIC disk (193), ALTPUBLIC disk (293), or PREVPUBLIC disk (493), based on the Common Security Services environment that you are running.

TSSUTIL batch utility

Generates formatted reports and extracts records from security events found in the audit/tracking file.

TSSCHART batch utility

Builds a tree structure of the full CA Top Secret file. This tree structure represents zones, divisions, departments, profiles, and users.

TSSAUDIT batch utility

Allows the auditor to monitor changes to the CA Top Secret file.

TSSCFILE batch utility

Produces formatted records containing security file data.

TSSREPT utility

Applies the capabilities of CA Earl to TSSCFILE and TSSUTIL output to produce customized reports.

TSSCPR utility

Identifies the TSS commands that are still pending in the CPF recovery file.