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Status Planned for future release
Workspace zSecure
Categories zSecure Admin
Created by Guest
Created on May 27, 2025

zSecure RA.S - provide capability to update RACFCLAS description field for installation defined classes

zSecure has a knowledge base of certain classes, including IBMs of course, plus some OEM classes, such as £ENDEVOR, so that it can report something meaningful in the Description field of the newlist type=class report type.

The default description when the class name is not in the knowledge base, is ???, and there is no facility to change that, we feel it would be useful to have the ability to update this Description field for classes that are not in the knowledge base.

Idea priority Low
  • Admin
    Michael Zagorski
    Jun 17, 2025

    @Liam can you have a look at the comment above and let us know your thoughts?

  • Admin
    JEROEN TIGGELMAN
    Jun 4, 2025

    We might introduce a new keyword on, say, SIMULATE, possibly CLASSDESC=(class,desc). Would this be sufficient for the intended purpose, or should we think about making it possible to specify different desciptions for different databases or systems?