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Status Future consideration
Workspace CICS Transaction Server for z/OS
Categories Runtime
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 8, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Allow more flexibility in the location of DFHAPIR

As currently designed, DFHAPIR can only be found as a single member name in a z/OS PARMLIB list. As CICS systems programmers, we normally don't have access to z/OS libraries so making changes requires change requests and possibly days between updates. Also, we have policy rules against giving read access to SYS1.PARMLIB.

Additionally, if a user running a compile has no access to SYS1.PARMLIB, they skip the rule entirely, negating the effectiveness of setting these rules.

Can there be an alternate location for DFHAPIR? It would need additional security controls to make sure a developer doesn't add their own rules.

1- The options would need to override the existing options in PARMLIB (for when we have established rules and want to add new ones or we want to bypass reading PARMLIB completely).

2- Can be specified in the Compiler/translator JCL.

3- Is secured so that a developer can't implement their own version, or skip the system designated rules.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 31, 2023
    CICS Development: This is a candidate for a future release
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 13, 2023

    Another problem with DFHAPIR is that we use Endevor, and all compiles run under the same userid, so we can't control who can and who can't bypass the rules in DFHAPIR. Perhaps a way to help resolve this is to amend the security check to include the program name. It's really not about the userid that needs the exception - it's the program. Alternatively allow some scope statements in allow different settings for different programs. Perhaps a core set for every, and then different sets for different programs.

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