Alert™/CICS

Security Management

Alert™/CICS

CICS Security Manager

Platform: z/VSE and VSEⁿ

Alert™/CICS is a comprehensive, menu-driven CICS security product used to control access to CICS transactions, programs, files, and maps and access security for fields within records. Alert™/CICS is explicitly written for both the CICS/VSE 2.3 & CICS/TS 1.1 environments under z/VSE, so resource usage is low.

Some Key Features:

Without changing any of your current programs, you can secure transactions, programs, files, and BMS maps
Facilities are easy to use, even for non-technical personnel—no need to write programs, change JCL, or learn a “rules” language
Provides online, menu-driven screens for defining security at all levels—for each user, department, and section
Requires a minimum of memory and DASD, and written with attention to minimizing the number of security checking cycles. Your system does not bog down with ALERT’s security, so your users won’t be slowed down either.
Offers two ways for you to restrict access to system resources: 1) Restrict access times for files, programs, maps, and transactions, 2) Specify either inquiry-only or inquiry-and-update processing for files

Alert™/CICS’s User Resource Security allows you to:

Limit access to secured CICS resources based on the user’s profile
Automatically sign off users and erase screens that are inactive for a specified period
Define both scheduled and temporary access times—ALERT denies any attempt to access the system outside the user’s defined access times
Report access violations to a specific terminal or CICS printer

Use Alert™/CICS’s Terminal Resource Security to protect any 3270-type terminal recognized by CICS to:

Limit access to resources based on the terminal’s ID without requiring user sign-on
Automatically sign off terminals and erase screens that are inactive for a specified period
Define both scheduled and temporary access times—ALERT denies any attempt to access the system outside the terminal’s defined access times
Report access violations to a specific terminal or CICS printer

A full report writer produces user-definable reports from the log, audit, and security files, as well as several predefined reports, including:

Violation and sign-on specification
System transaction security
System program security
System file security
System map security
User security information
Terminal security information

Additional features of Alert™/CICS include:

A modeling facility so that you can model a new user or terminal after one that was previously defined
The ability to update and implement security changes in real-time
Forced password change and automatic password distribution after a period that you determine
Capabilities for decentralized security administration
A user-callable interface for defining security for non-CICS resources
The ability to customize violation messages and display them in different languages
The ability to define resources to a group and assign the group to individual users. When the resource group is updated, the changes are automatically propagated to any user profile that contains that group.

Supports: