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Status Submitted
Workspace zSecure
Categories zSecure Audit
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 22, 2026

zSecure - SMF Report start-end time issue when spanning a calendar day

zSecure Event reporting does not support 'official' relative time references. When running a report spanning two or more calendar days, the From must be smaller than the Until as the Today-1 is not honored, as seen below.

(sorry for the bad formatting in the 'code cell' below, input looks good but as soon as saved, it corrupts the view but you can refer to the screen print)

C2RP3@T0                 zSecure Admin+Audit for RACF     Incorrect time range 
Command ===>

Select SMF records that fit all of the following criteria
Use EGN masks for selection criteria
Userid . . . . . .
Jobname . . . . . .
Terminal . . . . .

Dataset name . . .

Profile class . . .
Profile key . . . .
Level . . . . . . . (installation defined resource level)

From Until Intended access at least
Time 2100 : 0800 6 1. Execute 2. Read
Date TODAY-1 : TODAY 3. Update 4. Control
Weekday : 5. Alter 6. All access

Show all Success Warning Violation

There is a workaround for this by editing the generated Carla manually as follows:

  1. Enter an accepted date and time range selection from EV.U and run the report

  2. Exit the report and type results. Edit COMMANDS and copy all the contents to create a new member in your CARLa library defined from CO.1

  3. Use CO.3 to edit that member, find SMFSEL and change the date and time selection to something like:
    ( datetime>='16dec2025 17:00' datetime<='17dec2025 07:00' )

  4. Execute this using CO.4.

Or once decides to run the report from 0759 (today-1) until 0800 (today) which would then not be what expected as at least 13h to much is reported.

But this is not a convenient way to do it via the Panels and the relative date references work. So the 'logic' and transformation of the date/time selection must be incorporate into the zSecure Code.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Feb 9, 2026

    Date and Time selection values in the panel provide a useful filter in the sense that they allow a report like "show any activity in the evenings of last week," comprising of a single TIME interval in each of the DATEs. This Idea asks for another interpretation of these fields, in that the requestor needs a singe DATETIME interval.

    In order to support both specifications, the panel needs an extra selection field "Combine Date and Time values into an Interval," or an extra interval specification that allows entry of DATETIME values.