As far as I know RMF does not have any granular SAF interfaces.  And I have not 
checked, but I do not think it has any way to prevent usage of any panels.

The RMF Spread Sheet Reporter is an after the fact process.  You create RMF 
Reports and publish them, but they are not real time. 

The concern about security is intriguing.  I have not seen shops feel the need 
to restrict RMF Data.  If your end users or customers know how to run RMF 
reports in Batch they can access the same data as if it is online in the RMF 
ISPF process.

I am also curious as to why a Network person would be prevented from seeing the 
LPAR Capacity, Jobs with resource issues, or zFS issues that are presented in 
RMF.

You may need to contact IBM for assistance on this one.  The only option I see 
at this point is too Lock down RMF from everyone except the few, and then have 
a scheduling system run batch reports for the various areas.  This will not be 
real time. 

Then if they need real time, they would need to contact your MVS group for 
assistance.

In other shops I have worked in, RMF was available to everyone, and that helped 
because sometimes Programmers used it and then reported issues to the MVS team.

But I see RMF similar to using tools like Omegamon, Strobe, Mainview, and other 
monitoring tools.

Lizette


> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Adnan Can
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 5:15 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: RMF monitor III panel restriction
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> For the security reason, groups other than MVS should see only the subset of
> the real time RMF reports. For example network group should only see the
> channel utilization or CPU utilization of their tasks. Other hardware and
> config info on the raports are irrelevant to them.
> Also in TEP you can customize  certain screens to certain groups.
> RMF DDS could be another option, but I wondered whether there was more simple
> solution on RMF III side.
> 
> Thanks and regards
> 

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