This step is part of the
Application Performance Analyzer configuration and must be
completed only when your
Application Performance Analyzer started tasks are configured
to use an external security product to control access to
Application Performance Analyzer functions.
You can bypass this step if your installation has chosen to control
access to functions using
Application Performance Analyzer’s internal security, for
example, its own access rules facility.
Note: Configuring
external security is suggested if internal security is used in a sysplex
environment when running Application Performance Analyzer. This can prevent situations
in which one user has set up an observation request for job aaaaaaaa to run in the sysplex environment, and
a second user submits a job with the same name on one of the other
machines, resulting in the second job capturing data from the first
job submitted.
Access to Application Performance Analyzer functions can be controlled by RACF® or a RACF-compatible external
security product. Refer to Defining RACF profiles in Chapter
2 for details on how to use RACF or
a RACF-compatible external security product to control access to Application Performance Analyzer functions.
A RACF action is required
to support workstation users that connect to an Application Performance Analyzer started
task via the Application Performance Analyzer Listener started task. The action is called
USE.LISTENER.
Below are examples of RACF commands
based on the assumptions made in Defining RACF profiles:
Define the resource profile:
RDEFINE FACILITY SYSTEMD.USE.LISTENER UACC(NONE)
Define
the permission to allow all users to connect to the
Application Performance Analyzer started
task that is running on SYSTEMD:
PERMIT SYSTEMD.USE.LISTENER CLASS(FACILITY) ACCESS(READ)