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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 15, 2016

Support for RACF statistics / daily statistics for JDBC calls ( IMS Connect and ODBM)

System: IMS Connect / ODBM
Actor: User needing new feature

We need a function that every time a user logs onto the System, RACF will update the "last - access" date and time in the Users profile.

RACF needs this information to enforce password change frequencies and perform automatic revokes due to inactivity.

To prevent performance issues we will use the "RACF-INITSTATS(DAILY)" function in RACF CLASS(APPL).
Then RACF updates the statistics only once a day-

Similar to the parameter "APPL" in DATASTORE statement, the ODACCESS Statement should be extended with the APPL-Name.

Idea priority Medium