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Status Future consideration
Workspace zSecure
Categories zSecure Audit
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 12, 2023

zSecure - Matching SMF Field-Names to zSecure Names

It is, to put it politely, a nightmare to locate the zSecure field name, when one has the SMF field name (from the SMF or IP manuals).

SCKRCARL(CKADFTCP) helps in locating the zSecure field names, but that's all.

To make life a lot easier, why not have a cross reference table for those fields that match?

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Nov 7, 2023

    Under option IN.D suboption 2 one can format all fields defined in the engine for the record (sub)type you are interested in by adding a selection like "type=119(20)". It does not show you the actual SMF field names for the subtype, but it shows everything that is available out of the box. Are you aware of that feature?