In ACF2 r15.0, there is a new GSO RULEOPTS Warning Message:
ACF79410 WARNING: GSO RULEOPTS NOVSAMFAIL WARN MODE IN EFFECT
So:
1.) What does this message mean?
2.) Where can information be found about it?
ANSWERS:
1.) In situations where new violations occur, due to VSAMFAIL/NOVSAMFAIL processing, an SMF Record will be written and will show in the ACFRPTDS Report.
The Fields in this Report's output can be seen in the ACF2 Report and Utilities Guide in chapter 5 'ACFRPTDS-Data Set/Program Event Log' under the heading 'Sample Report Output: TERMINAL':
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logonid jdate gdate time record inst stape RKEY=ruleid
jobname VOL=dsnvol DDN=ddname DSN=dsname
stepname VOL=libvol PGM=pgmname LIB=library
jobid major minor rmrc NAM=name
cpuid SRC=source path UID=uid
nextkey: recid s
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The fields of interest for a WRNV (WARN/VIO) Record are RECORD and RMRC. When the Record is written, because of NOVSAMFAIL, RECORD will contain 'WRNV' and RMRC will contain 'WARN'. If the violation is for a VSAM Dataset, the entry is related to NOVSAMFAIL.
If you have created Rules because of NOVSAMFAIL loggings, then you should ensure that Rules are written to allow for these violations. Once all Rules are written, you can set the GSO Option to VSAMFAIL and this will remove the warning message:
ACF79410 WARNING: GSO RULEOPTS NOVSAMFAIL WARN MODE IN EFFECT
Subsequent violations will be real violations and access will be denied. With NOVSAMFAIL, the violation becomes a WARN access and the actual access is allowed. Please note, this is only for VSAM Dataset access.
If you've had PTF RO58015 APPLY'd for a few weeks and not seen any violations, after writing the necessary Rules, it is likely you can set VSAMFAIL.
2.) PTF RO58015 introduced GSO RULEOPTS Control Option VSAMFAIL/NOVSAMFAIL which won't fail VSAM OPEN Requests that had previously been bypassed if TCBFSM was set in the current TCB. All other VSAM OPEN requests aren't affected by this option. It also introduced the message:
ACF79410 WARNING: GSO RULEOPTS NOVSAMFAIL WARN MODE IN EFFECT
This is sceduled to be documented in the Administration Guide and the ACF79410 message in the Messages Reference Guide.