I agree, even though we have code which is similar. If I wrote it today,
I'd use IRRXUTIL to get that data using a REXX program.
 On Aug 7, 2013 11:32 PM, "Ed Gould" <[email protected]> wrote:

> That is only one issue of screen scraping which we have talked on here
> before.
> Its like trying to take an IDCAMS listing and parse it out to be more user
> friendly.
> It works great until IBM changes it. IOW its not a programmed interface
> that IBM is willing to advertise.
>
> Ed
>
> On Aug 7, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Greg Shirey wrote:
>
>  On 7 August 2013, 13:34 Tony Harminc wrote:
>>
>>  We produce a daily listing of RACF commands from our SMF type 80s (using
>>>> RACFRW) and we list ADDUSER >>ADDGROUP ALTUSER ALTGROUP CONNECT DELUSER
>>>> DELGROUP PASSWORD PERMIT RALTER RDEFINE REMOVE.
>>>>
>>>> We also produce a daily listing of our CICS user IDs and their RACF
>>>> status.  On July 8 we had a user ID on >our report that was listed as
>>>> REVOKED and a LAST-ACCESS date and time of 07/17/07 17:01:28.
>>>>
>>>
>>  What produces this second listing?
>>>
>>
>>  Is it possible that the REVOKED status reported the first time was
>>> actually an indication of some other reason the user would not be able
>>> to logon, e.g. being revoked at the group level or having a revoke
>>> date that has been reached? Do your SMF records show CONNECT command
>>> activity that affects the user? There are doubtless other reasons that
>>> a report might claim a userid to be revoked when the magic "FLAG4" is
>>> not set.
>>>
>>
>> It is a COBOL program that parses the output of an LU * command.  I
>> didn't write it, but it appears that the program examines the 4th line of
>> output for each User to see if "ATTRIBUTES=REVOKED" begins in column 3.  It
>> writes the information to a VSAM file and then creates the report from the
>> data in the VSAM file.  I just checked the User IDs listed as revoked on
>> today's report, and indeed they are revoked in RACF, but I take your point
>> - this report is probably where I need to look.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>>
>>
>>
>>
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