General requirements for CICSPlex SM security

You should review your RACF® configurations to ensure that the following minimum requirements are met:
  • The user ID associated with the coordinating address space (CAS) must have:
  • Each CICSPlex® SM address space (CMAS) must have authority to connect to a CAS and attach a service point, which establishes the product and context a user can access.
  • The IDs for all users expected to use CICSPlex SM should be defined to RACF in each MVS system in which there is a CMAS. For each individual user, the ID must be the same for each MVS system.
  • User access authority to CICSPlex SM definitions and CICS® commands and resources should be defined to RACF in a consistent manner in all MVS systems used by CICSPlex SM.
In addition, you should be aware that, in the CMAS address space, a security environment is created for the user specified in the DFLTUSER system initialization parameter associated with the MAS.