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Status Planned for future release
Categories Other
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 4, 2018

HATS is dumping the contents of the screen to a log

Currently when HATS encounters a macro exception, the contents of the screen being used are dumped into a log file.
As this can contain sensitive information, we need to be able to stop HATS from doing this in a Production environment.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    Sep 17, 2021

    The feature that is described in this request is a candidate for a future release.

  • Guest
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    May 24, 2021

    A preliminary evaluation of this request indicates that it is consistent with our business strategy. Further evaluation of this RFE is underway.

  • Guest
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    Apr 27, 2021

    here is some more info
    from old mails

    Hi Grant,

    I understand your concern. What you are asking would be a total rewrite of the macro trace code. Can the screen dumps be removed.....not sure. This would be a "Request for Enhancement...RFE". L3 would need to look into it.

    I do know the screen dumps help troubleshoot macro issues and in my head they are just as helpful for clients to resolve their macro issues as for IBM troubleshooting a client macro issue.


    RFE request form
    https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/?BRAND_ID=301
    Change the filter to "All Brands" HATS


    Regards
    Betty J. Lynch
    Host Access Transformation Services/WebFacing
    lynch11@us.ibm.com
    IBM Retiree.....33 great years


    "Donachie, Grant (Tesco Bank)" ---06/14/2018 04:37:19 AM---Hi Betty I raised the ticket as I'm concerned about customer data and card details being stored in t

    From: "Donachie, Grant (Tesco Bank)"
    To: Betty Lynch
    Cc: "05_TB_IT_ Middleware WASMQ (Tesco Bank)" <05_TB_IT_MiddlewareWASMQ@tescobank.com>, Lionel Butler , "Paterson, David A (Tesco Bank)"
    Date: 06/14/2018 04:37 AM
    Subject: RE: 22841,019,866
    ________________________________________



    Hi Betty

    I raised the ticket as I'm concerned about customer data and card details being stored in the filesystem in clear. I'm quite happy to sanitise logs before sending them out to troubleshoot problems, that aspect is not a problem.

    Would it be fair to say that IBM cannot stop the screen dumps, some of which contain personal / card data from being stored in the ear log?

    It seems ripe for harvest from my point of view, which is worrying.

    Thanks

    Grant

    From: Betty Lynch [mailto:lynch11@us.ibm.com]
    Sent: 13 June 2018 18:24
    To: Donachie, Grant (Tesco Bank)
    Subject: 22841,019,866
    Hi Grant,

    All tracing captures GDPR data. My understanding is we are allowed to receive GDPR but it has to remain in a very secure environment and can never be downloaded to a non secure data repository. Correct me if I am wrong.

    If you do not want to send over your clients data then you would have to edit out the personal data first. We can't rewrite all the tracing source code to NOT capture GDPR data.



    Regards
    Betty J. Lynch
    Host Access Transformation Services/WebFacing
    lynch11@us.ibm.com
    IBM Retiree.....33 great years

  • Guest
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    Apr 27, 2021

    Hello. I can't see your comment that I have to reply to. What information do you want?
    thanks
    Colin

  • Guest
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    Feb 16, 2021

    Waiting for your response.

    Madhu