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Status Delivered
Workspace zSecure
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 21, 2021

Add policy profile for 'NOCSDATA' parameter for User, Dataset, Group and General Resource Profiles

Ability to control the deletion of Custom Fields via the specification of the 'NOCSDATA' parameter for User, Group, Dataset and General Resource profiles.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Nov 18, 2024

    Shipped in zSecure 3.1 SSE2 on October, 25, 2024.

  • Guest
    Feb 15, 2024

    Hi Linnea, you did not author this idea, but your vote has been registered.

    We hope/assume that management of departmental CSDATA isn’t done via System-Wide SPECIAL. That’s what RACF field level access checking is for. Such that only people with appropriate field access can manage only certain fields. Unless somebody implemented something like USER.CSDATA.** UACC(UPDATE), which is also somewhat unwise.

    The main purpose of the SEGMENT management policy profiles in CV is an extra layer to prevent System-SPECIAL users managing certain segments, or to apply a segment-related scope on the target profiles for group-special and regular users (RACF already provides an all-segments scoping policy on the target profiles).

    Basically, FIELD profiles already provide for the use case as you formulate it.

  • Guest
    Feb 13, 2024

    Currently we use READ and UPDATE for the segment management:

    READ= list command allowed

    UPDATE=add/change/delete is allowed

    What is the business need to distinguish 'delete' from 'change'?