In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/16/2006
at 08:14 AM, Michael Cleary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>For those of you that are members of SHARE, I submitted a SHARE
>requirement regarding this.
The text assumes that the field is intended to hold a userid; that
assumption is incorrect.
>To effectively use this field, every z/OS customer needs to develop,
>test, install and maintain a system user exit to populate the user
>identification field of the SMF Common Exit Parameter Area with the
>current userid.
That is incorrect; not every customer needs that filed initialized
with something other than blanks. In fact, populating it with the
userid, or any other nonblank value, is likely to break existing code.
>An SMF system option should be added to govern if the
>system should populate the user identification field of the SMF
>Common Exit Parameter Area with the current userid instead of
>initializing it to blanks.
And the default should be NO.
>Benefit: SMF records are the heart of the integrity on the z/OS
>platform and need to be a complete historical audit trail.
Nothing in this requirement makes the SMF data more of an audit trail
than they already are.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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