GA Announcement: Improve the RACROUTE Call to External Security Manager (ESM)

[Bob Tilkes]

Announcement!  Enhancement to the IDMS RACROUTE Call to External Security Manager

Enhancement Description:
When the IDMS sign on function is executed and sign on is secured externally in the IDMS Security Resource Type Table (SRTT), a RACROUTE call is made to the System Authorization Facility (SAF) and passed to the External Security Manager (ESM, e.g. ACF2, Top Secret, RACF). The ESM will extract the user information from the security database and allow or deny the sign on. The IDMS task which issued the sign on request will wait for the ESM to return the results of the requested sign on.

With this IDMS enhancement applied, if the response from the ESM is delayed and it exceeds the stall time defined for the IDMS TASK, the IDMS task will be terminated with a D002 abend and with message text DC001003 IDMS task stalled waiting for ESMRACRT.

Without this IDMS enhancement applied, the IDMS/CV will hang resulting in it needing to be cancelled and restarted to restore service.

Related links:

GA PTF - LU16761

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Bob Tilkes
Product Owner, IDMS Product Family
Broadcom Software
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[mazeved5]

The link for the PTF description does not work. I get the following message:
“The page you requested couldn't be found”



Regards,

Manny Azevedo
IDMS Database Administrator
Email: [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>

[Bob Tilkes]

Hi Manny, sorry about that.  I have updated the link and hopefully now you will be able to access it.  I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention,

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Bob Tilkes
Product Owner, IDMS Product Family
Broadcom Software
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