On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 07:08:31 -0400, Dean Montevago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, > >Is there any doc on what the function of this address space is ? I found >a couple of hits in the 1.9 books but it doesn't go into any detail. > >TIA >Dean "Common event adapter (CEA) is a component of the BCP that provides the ability to deliver z/OS events to C-language clients, such as the z/OS CIM server. A CEA address space is started automatically during initialization of every z/OS system." Well, the wording is quite clunky, probably written by someone for whom English is not their first language. A better explanation might be: "The Common Event Adapter (CEA) is a component of the BCP that enables USS processes, written in C, to be able to receive z/OS system generated events (WTO, ENF, SSI, maybe others, who knows?). Examples of such processes are the CIM providers included with the CIM Server (see z/OS V1R9.0 Common Information Model User's Guide). The CEA address space is automatically started during z/OS system initialization." On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:32:15 -0500, Hal Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Interesting. Next time, might ask for a formal statement to that effect >that we can show our auditors. We are expected to know and manage every >process. > Nonsense. As stated by the documentation (and reinforced by Bob's interaction with IBM development), CEA is a part of the base operating system with no customer facing externals. There might be some disagreement as to whether or not the security and setup instructions are correct/complete (I've never tried, so I can't comment), but, on it's face, the information appears complete. The need for security clearly comes from the fact that these are unauthorized processes that need access to authorized programming resources. There's nothing to 'understand' or 'manage', other than to follow the installation instructions. Scott Fagen Enterprise Systems Management ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
