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Workspace z/OS Connect
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Created on Mar 26, 2020

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Monitor End-to-End Access in real time for Audit Purposes

The requirement is to monitor end-to-end access from requester to the databases. The audit information must be available in real time to a Security Information and Event Management system (QRadar). Monitoring is for both inbound and outbound access to and from the mainframe. Auditors need the ability to correlate the user ID, the transaction or application, and the database access.

Idea priority High
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    |     May 28, 2021

    This requirement is addressed by z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition V3.0.45 / APAR PH36068:
    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH36068

    New interceptor interfaces have been added to enable monitoring support for API requester. Request data is available on the request origin as well the target endpoint. Timestamps enable the calculation of the z/OS Connect EE processing time and the time spent connecting to the endpoint, as well as the time taken to retrieve access tokens. Monitoring of inflight requests and requests failing early is also enabled. Interceptor writers can take advantage of these new capabilities by implementing the InterceptorRequester interface and optionally the EndpointInterceptor and EarlyFailureInterceptorRequesterinterfaces.

    For further details about Intercepting API requester calls, refer to the “Intercepting API requester calls” topic in the z/OS Connect EE V3.0 Documentation:
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zosconnect/3.0?topic=interceptor-intercepting-api-requester-calls

    You can now configure z/OS Connect EE to record SMF 123 subtype 2 version 2 records, which provide more detailed information about API requester requests. Do not enable recording of subtype 2 version 2 records until all the products you use to process your SMF records support this new subtype.

    For further details about SMF 123 subtype 2 version 2, refer to the “API requester data from SMF type 123 subtype 2 version 2 records” topic in the z/OS Connect EE V3.0 Documentation:
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zosconnect/3.0?topic=usrmr-api-requester-data-from-smf-type-1232-v2-records

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