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Special Comment Reference

CA VM:Secure recognizes several special comments that are not comments in the usual sense. While the usual comments are physical lines with notes or instructions for human use that are not processed by CA VM:Secure or by CMS, these special comments are processed by CA VM:Secure.

Some of these special comments are created by CA VM:Secure, either automatically because of system conditions or in response to administrative or management functions you used. Others you must add to the appropriate user source directory, directory profile, or skeleton file.

CA VM:Secure sets the values for many of these special comments. Some of the values it sets are in response to user actions. Other values it sets are in response to commands that you, another system administrator, or a directory manager issues.

Note: Do not edit a special comment directly.

Comment types, where they are allowed, and how they are added and maintained are listed in the following table. Their functions are described in the following sections.

Special Comment

Allowed In

Added to File By

Value Set By

 

MANAGERS File

Skeleton Files

Directory Profiles

Directory Entries

 

 

*AC=
account comment

 

Y

Y

Y

System administrator

System administrator

*ED=
edit history comment

Y

Y

Y

Y

System administrator

VMXGNR utility

CA VM:Secure
(only when you use CA VM:Secure commands to modify the directory entry)

*ENROLL
enroll comment

 

Y

 

 

System administrator

System administrator

*EX=
expire comment

 

 

 

Y

CA VM:Secure (when someone expires a user ID with the EXPIRE command)

CA VM:Secure (when someone expires a user ID with the EXPIRE command)

*FL=
password flag comment
(CA VM:Secure only)

 

 

 

Y

CA VM:Secure (used with the Rules Facility)

CA VM:Secure

*FP=
file pool comment

 

 

 

Y

CA VM:Secure

CA VM:Secure (based on the file pools in which the user ID is enrolled)

*HS=
history comment
(CA VM:Secure only)

 

Y

 

Y

System administrator

CA VM:Secure

*LA=
last (x)autolog comment
(CA VM:Secure only)

 

 

 

Y

CA VM:Secure with Rules Facility

CA VM:Secure

*LL=
last logon comment
(CA VM:Secure only)

 

 

 

Y

CA VM:Secure with Rules Facility

CA VM:Secure

*NB=
NOLOGBY comment
(CA VM:Secure only)

 

Y

Y

Y

CA VM:Secure (when someone issues the PASSWORD command with the BYONLY option for a user ID)

CA VM:Secure

*PW=
password history comment

 

Y

 

Y

System administrator

VMXGNR utility

CA VM:Secure

*PWnn=

Traditional password or password phrase values

 

 

 

Y

CA VM:Secure

CA VM:Secure

*SP=
sample profile comment

 

Y

 

Y

System administrator

System administrator (CA VM:Secure removes this comment from a directory entry when that user ID’s 191 minidisk is created or when that user ID is enrolled in SFS and the IPL statement is updated with the file pool name)

*US=
user exit comment
(CA VM:Secure only)

 

Y

 

Y

System administrator

System administrator