Implementing security

SAF passes security requests to external security managers (ESMs). SAF security supports the IBM RACF product and the CA Technologies CA-ACF2 and CA-Top Secret products.

Profile names define product resources that are secured by an ESM through the SAF interface. The following books provide the information that you need to secure MainView for CICS resources with an ESM:

• MainView Security Reference Manual lists the SAF entity names for MainView for CICS services, views, and actions.

• MainView Security Guide describes how to use Plex Manager security views to manage security parameter and resource class property members in the BBSECURE data set.

MainView for CICS provides a proprietary security macro (CMRSECU) that can protect action line commands from full-screen displays and from some window-mode views; however CMRSECU can protect only full-screen display access.

When a full-screen display is replaced by a window-mode view, the full-screen display is no longer supported. The action parameter table (Table 1) is not updated when more actions are available for window-mode views.

This section documents the macro for compatibility purposes. If you are a new MainView for CICS user, you should not use the CMRSECU security method. In addition, current users should migrate to ESM security protection.