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Status Submitted
Workspace GDPS
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 7, 2024

GDPS provisions SAF controls for accessing Netview when Netview already has a SAF resource to perform this. This means there are now two resources protecting the same function

With the implementation of GDPS 4.7 and the steps outlined in Role based security, GDPS folks have provided the following profile GDPSADMIN.USERCTL.<domain_id>.   This means that when role based security is enabled and GDPS 4.7 is initialized on the Netview that unless access is given to this resource , the user will not be able to sign onto the Netview Domain, even if it is not for GDPS related functions.

This particular profile is a duplicate of the profile setup by Netview documented in the Security reference manual:

 

they can be authorized to log on to a particular NetView host through a profile in the APPL class of an SAF product. You can use
domain identifiers to define resources in the APPL class to represent instances of the NetView program.

 

At this point I need to have access to 

GDPSADMIN.USERCTL.DMN1

AND

APPL.DMN1

 

To get access to the same resource DMN1.

 

I believe that the GDPS resource should be removed and users utilize the documented Netview SAF resource for controlling 3270 access to the n=Netview domain.

 

If users have not yet deployed SECOPTS=SAFCHECK or SAFDEF then if GDPS wishes to use their current profile and option should be stated as to which Profile to use for example an option that states:

 

USERCTL= GDPS or USERCTL=NETV

 

 

 

Idea priority Low