> I am in a process of tracking the changes made to VSAM. Just went on with a basic > research on performing a audit trail on VSAM and found the below information like > > "Type 60 records updates to the VSAM volume Dataset (VVDS). Updates are recorded > as INSERTED, DELETED or UPDATED. As SMS puts NVR entries into the VVDS for non- > VSAM files, this can give you comprehensive audit activity for who has been creating, > deleting and updating files. Some of the information this record provides is date, time, > jobname, action, filename, volume(s), catalog, sms classes and newname if > appropriate. > Type 61/65/66 -- These all involve IDCAMS VSAM processing. Type 61 is a DEFINE, > Type 65 is a DELETE and Type 66 is an ALTER. > Type62/64 -- These records relate to VSAM component or cluster processing. > Type 62 is for a cluster open, and type 64 for a cluster close or volume switch. The > records include the catalog and volumes that relate to the cluster, the date and time > the cluster was opened, and the job name. The type 64 record also contains > information about SMB, NSR and LSR usage." > > Does anyone have a proven sample JCL to track the VSAM changes ? Meanwhile I am > checking in Fine Manual for a similar Samples. > > This could really help me in accomplishing my Proof Of Concept. >
It will depend on what you have available to you. Do you have SAS and MXG or MICS? Do you have programming skills in Assembler Language, COBOL, REXX, etc? What information do you need from the SMF Records? What kind of an audit are you wanting to do? Do you just want to know who touched a VSAM dataset or do you need to know what inside the VSAM dataset was touched? Are there any DB2 files involved or just native VSAM? What level of the z/OS Operating system are you at? What kind of a Proof of concept are you doing? Is this for a specific product? These answers can help us to help you. Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
