Hi Munif,
A lot depends on what your environment is like and what you are trying to accomplish. If you are needing to bill customers for their usage or if you are needing to control access to and monitor applications access or even just logon/logoff, how you approach the task could be different. RACF will be useful for controlling access, of course. SAS and MXG will help processes and report on the SMF data. Check to be sure that you are gathering the SMF data that you need. If you are not sure what to collect, the manuals will help, and you might try turning all of the SMF record types on for a short time, just to see what would be produced on your system. CAUTION - it can be a LOT of data, depending on how large and how active your system is. You did not say what your mainframe session manager is, but generally speaking, they either do or can write some type of SMF or session records. It may be that a configuration option in the product itself requires setup or activation. Check the install guides for the product or contact the vendor, if you have support. HTH, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Munif Sadek" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:24:12 AM Subject: Users access to mainframe applications Dear listers I have a requirement to produce daily report on user access to Host based applications (CICS + TSO - Green screens). I do have SAS, MXG, RACF and was thinking of using IRRADU00 output and SAS/MXG (SMF type 30 subtype 1 and 80 records) but not sure if it will include CICS access as well. My mainframe session manager does record logon/logoff to mainframe applications although not supported by MXG. And other probloems are that User can bypass session manager to access mainframe applications and our CICS is MRO. Just wanted to know how other sites are doing it.. Any pointers in the right direction? regards Munif. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
