You could set up an SMF exit to check for the suspicious record and check who 
is writing it.

Kees.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Charles Mills
Sent: 05 July, 2016 17:43
To: [email protected]
Subject: Help identifying source of SMF 80 record

X-posted IBM-MAIN and RACF-L.

I am looking at an SMF 80 record from a customer that I am having trouble
making sense of. The customer is definitely a RACF user, not a TSS user. The
customer I believe is on z/OS V2R1.

It is a valid SMF 80 record. The event.qualifier is 2.0. There are three
relocatable sections: a 49 (User Name) that says "Detection Status", a 17
(Class name) that says "EK$CLASS" and a 1 (Resource Name) that says
"EKCA.SECURITY.DETECTION". The record is 2959 bytes long, long for a RACF
SMF record.

So what's odd about it?

1. It is missing the RACF version SMF80VRM at offset 80 that was added to
RACF around OS/390 V1R2. That leads me to believe the record was not
produced by RACF.

2. Between roughly offset x'44' and offset x'B52' (the first relocatable
section) there is binary data that looks like perhaps a series of binary
counters that I am not familiar with. No recognizable EBCIDC data providing
a clue.

Does anyone have an idea what might be producing this record and where its
format might be documented?

It's at a customer so I don't have a thorough knowledge of what third-party
products might be running, etc., etc.

Thanks,

Charles 

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