Security and Auditing Environment Variables

These environment variables relate to configuring the security and auditing environment.

ES_CESN_NO_OS390

Overrides the default behaviour CESN transaction response for invalid user credentials. Default behaviour reports "Your userid is invalid" or "Your password is invalid".

Syntax

SET CESN_NO_OS390=value

Values

• Setting this variable to any value causes CESN to produce an invalid credential message instead of a specific invalid user or invalid password message.

Default

Specific invalid user/password messages will be produced.

ES_DISABLE_DFLTUSR_SIGNON

Disables the default user ("mfuser") signon when invoking ES Monitor & Control (ESMAC).

Syntax

ES_DISABLE_DFLTUSR_SIGNON=value

Values

• Y or y Having logged on to ES administration via your MFDS internal security account, you no longer receive the auto logon as "mfuser" when accessing ESMAC.

Default

If this is not set, mfuser will be used as the default user to sign in to ESMAC.

ES_ESM_PLTPISEC

The level of security checking for PLTPI processing.

Syntax

ES_ESM_PLTPISEC=value

Values

• NONE - You do not want any security checking on PLT initialization programs.
• CMDSEC - You want CICS to perform command security checking only.
• RESSEC - You want CICS to perform resource security checking only.
• ALL - You want CICS to perform both command and resource security checking.

Default

NONE

ES_ESM_RCF

Determines how RACF is used for command authorization

Syntax

ES_ESM_RCF=value

Values:

• A Includes options T, C, and S.
• C Specifies that RACF is to be used for ETO terminal command authorization.
• N Specifies that no sign-on, transaction, or command authorization is to be performed by RACF.
• S Specifies that RACF is to be used for static and ETO terminal command authorization. Includes option C.
• T Specifies that RACF is to be used for sign-on and transaction authorization.
• Y Includes options T and C.

Default

N

ES_OLD_SEC_TSTD

Prevents security being enforced for TS or TD queues that are not declared in the security repository.

Syntax

SET ES_OLD_SEC_TSTD=value

Values

• Any value.

Default

By default security is enforced for TS or TD queues that are not declared in the security repository.

ES_SURROGATE_JOB_USER

Associates a user ID with a job when submitting the job for processing through the internal reader from CICS.

Syntax

ES_SURROGATE_JOB_USER=value

Values

Any value - The user ID that started the ES region is used in the job submission.

Default

By default, the CICS default user CICSUSER, or as specified by ES_USR_DFLT_CICS, is used in the job submission.

MF_ROOT_CERT

Enables the MF Directory Server process and any client applications to pick up the value of the root certificate file.

MFAUDIT_LOGS

The location of audit files.