Would there be anything in RACF Type 80 records that might be helpful?

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On Thursday, July 10th, 2025 at 9:45 AM, Roger Lowe 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> The zOS 3.1 z/OS Data Set File System Administration manual has no reference 
> to any SMF record that it uses. I have also checked the IDFPRMxx Parmlib 
> member and there is no option given for enabling an SMF Record
> 
> Roger
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:46:10 +0000, Ituriel do Neto 
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > Does it have its own SMF record?
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > 
> > Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
> > z/OS System Programmer
> > 
> > Em quinta-feira, 10 de julho de 2025 às 09:33:55 BRT, Roger Lowe 
> > [email protected] escreveu:
> > 
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:53:33 +0000, Martin Packer [email protected] 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > So I think 14/15 has job identification in it. So what does SMF 30 say 
> > > the userid is for that job?
> > > 
> > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] on behalf of 
> > > Roger Lowe [email protected]
> > > Date: Thursday, 10 July 2025 at 07:56
> > > To: [email protected] [email protected]
> > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Auditing/Logging of DSFS activities
> > > Trying to find a way to audit/log activities performed by Dataset File 
> > > System (DSFS).....we are have a zOS dataset managed by DSFS. This dataset 
> > > has been 'updated' by an id, but all we can see from Type 14/15 SMF 
> > > records is that it was DSFS. I have also looked at the SMF Type 92 
> > > Subtype 14 and again it only shows up as DSFS. I am trying to find the 
> > > underlying REAL userid that has used DSFS to update the zOS dataset. I am 
> > > not seeing RACF violation messages as this userid does have sufficient 
> > > authority to update the dataset in the first place. I also haven't found 
> > > anything useful in the USS logs. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
> > > 
> > > Roger
> > 
> > As I posted "...but all we can see from Type 14/15 SMF records is that it 
> > was DSFS ...." - so we know it was "something" using DSFS to update a 
> > sequential file on zOS that had the required RACF access to the file. What 
> > we would like to find out is the REAL userid that connected with DSFS and 
> > then did the subsequent update. Not sure if Type 30 will help
> > 
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