I am curious: Why is Rocket Software defending missing SDSF actions and bad 
documentation??? Has IBM 'outsourced' the SDSFAUX server?

I am annoyed with the ISFTABL thing (which we addressed in our logon 
procedure), too, because that message was irritating all of us.

The ISF.CONNECT thing is much more irritating: When you customize SDSF, quite 
clearly the users only saw in the functions they were entitled to use. That was 
true up to z/OS 2.1. (Can't speak for 2.2 since we went straight to 2.3.)

I feel strongly that issuing the ICH408I for *every* user is not an RFE thing, 
it is a blatant error since we do NOT get ICH408I for all the other functions 
that the users are not entitled to. Besides, the message is bogus, since the 
not priviledged users all can work and do the same things that they always 
could. 

Rob, in case you are not aware: From a RACF point of view, users should ONLY 
see what they have to see. That is not only corporate mandate where I work, it 
is also a general principle that all banks in Germany are forced to obey. So 
needlessly allowing users to see/access things that they cannot use because the 
RACF test for ISF.CONNECT does not follow SDSF standards is against all usual 
practices. We have taken more than our share of calls because of that.

Since you cited the SDSF customization Guide: I went through it. And the 
wording 'SDSF SERVER' isn't clear at all, because that encompasses both the 
SDSF address space itself  *and* SDSFAUX. The rest of the occurences for that 
profile name are all as a second mandatory access right when some function 
located in SDSFAUX is used. That is also the way the ptfs I installed in 2.1 
(that gave us SDSFAUX) worked.

Given the reaction here (and since this is obviously a Rocket Software thing), 
I will not waste my time opening an RFE. I will just define that profile and 
then tell the auditors to take this up with IBM by showing the documentation.

Barbara

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