STATG Control Option

Question

Hello Community,

There is a new control option called STATG in CA Top Secret v16. I would like to know about the details. What kind of TSS statistical data will be logged to SMF 231 and What happens if we activate the STATG control option? Does it cause any performance issue or loss of data because of logging too much data? What are the differences between the statistical datas when we issue tss modify st command?

Thanks,
Kind Regards,
Necmettin.

Answer

Necrmettin,

TSS MODIFY STATS displays statistical information about Top Secret which is documented in:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/security/ca-top-secret-for-z-os/16-0/administrating/specifying-control-options-to-modify-your-security-environment/stats-display-statistics.html

STATG control option causes that data to get logged to the SMF 231 periodically, so you get historical TSS MODIFY STATS data to run so you can run TSSRPTSG.

STATG is documented at:
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/security/ca-top-secret-for-z-os/16-0/administrating/specifying-control-options-to-modify-your-security-environment/statg-start-or-stop-statistics-gathering.html

TSSRPTSG is documented at:
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/security/ca-top-secret-for-z-os/16-0/search.html?q=tssrptsg&page=1

Will open a support ticket open under your name so I can have the doc updated and the doc change request can be tracked. Will also create a knowledge document.

Please let me know if there are any questions.

Regards,

Joseph Porto - Broadcom Level 1 Support