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Status Under review
Workspace zSecure
Categories zSecure Audit
Created by Guest
Created on May 1, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

lookup to a filtered newlist (name) as an alternative to a newlist type

When you have a user ID or a group name in a field, for example the high level qualifier in newlist type=DSN, you can look up the OWNER of the ID by writing QUAL:OWNER or QUAL:RACF.OWNER. You can even use the lookup in a SELECT command: SELECT QUAL:RACF.OWNER=SYS1.
However, you cannot check if this ID is connected to a group, say SYS1, because the required field CONGRPNM is a repeated field, and those are not really supported in lookup operations.

If we had the ability to replace the newlist TYPE in the lookup, with a newlist NAME, and we could specify SELECT commands in the named table newlist, we would be able to bypass this old restriction, without adding a new language construct.

It would be very helpful to have a general capability to limit a report (not a TYPE=RACF report, of course) to only IDs that are connected to a group SYS*, without having to revert to an external file and deftype lookup.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    May 2, 2025

    So how would you use this lookup variant?

    newlist type=racf name=SYSTUSER
    select class=user congrpnm=sys*

    newlist type=dsn name=privdsn
    select exists(qual:SYSTUSER.dfltgrp)
    sortlist dsn


    SYSTUSER creates a named table with user profiles for users that are connected to a system group.

    PRIVDSN lists the data sets for those privileged users.

    We're adhering to the existing support for type RACF lookups, that is, not using a KEYFIELD specification. For other newlist types, this should allow the same functionality as DEFTYPE lookup, using the field names of the table in the lookup specification:

    newlist type=racf_access name=SYSTUSER
    select class=group profile=sys*

    newlist type=dsn name=privdsn
    define related_user as word(dsn,2,'.')
    select dsn=OMVSUSER.** exists(related_user:SYSTUSER.id.id)
    sortlist dsn


    See https://community.ibm.com/community/user/question/check-if-a-user-exists-with-carla#958937f8-781e-4e8f-8ba8-01968a98f5a5

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