Sysplex External Security Conversion Aid

In order to use the sysplex security enhancements, you must select the Application Performance Analyzer External Security option. As part of these enhancements, the naming convention for the RACF® (or equivalent) security profiles has changed.

Note: The changes apply to all External Security option users in both sysplex and non-sysplex environments.

Currently, the RACF general resource profiles use the Application Performance Analyzer started task identifier (STCID) for a prefix. The sysplex enhancements require that the profile names use the sysplex system names of the target or servicing systems as the prefix.

A REXX utility program, CAZRACON in library hlq.SCAZEXEC, is provided to aid in the conversion of the external security profiles. This utility supports RACF environments only. CAZRACON is a REXX program and can be run in TSO foreground or in a TSO batch job. Sample JCL is provided below. Using the existing RACF profiles as a base, CAZRACON generates the JCL and RACF commands needed to create new RACF profiles using the sysplex naming conventions. CAZRACON must be run once for each Application Performance Analyzer instance or STCID.