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Status Future consideration
Workspace zSecure
Categories zSecure Admin
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 16, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

reduce (seemingly) duplicate resource/user/intent entries in Access Monitor

Using AM1, with 1 ACCESS data set as input, you may see several lines for 1 resource at the DISPLAY level. In some cases, the REQUEST FLAGS for this one user/resource/intent combination may show a difference, but in many cases the REQ FLAGS in the lines are blank or identical.

Provide an option (or a default!) to reduce these seeming duplicates to 1 line in the ACCESS file.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Jul 16, 2025

    I zeroed out the first nibble of FLAGS_RAW (ignoring requests for DISCRETE profiles and pre-loaded generics) and the 3rd nibble (DSTYPE=V/M/T) using 48 (!) CONVERSION statements. This increased CPU usage of C2PAMCMP processing by 20% but reduced the record count by 26-28%.

    It would be MUCH more efficient it there was a format that applied bitwise AND on the field, for example:

    define FLAGS_RAW(BITAND('0F1F'x)) as FLAGS_RAW

    I also tried to zero out the useless bits with a lookup to a DEFTYPE file. The file had 65536 lines and 2 fields (orig bits, new bits). But in order to read the file, I could not write the 2 values a readable HEX, but had to write ASIS values, as there is no support for HEX->internal in the CONVERT( ) function. Unprintable data is hard on maintenance, so I opted not to use this efficient solution.

    Note, in both alternatives, with a BITAND( ) modifier and with the lookup, we must apply the modification only to RECTYPE=AUTH CLASS=DATASET.

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