Enabling RACF security statistics for IMS Connect

If IMS Connect is configured to call RACF®, you can enable RACF security statistics to be recorded and updated when IMS Connect issues the RACF call RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY. You can enable RACF statistics to be recorded and updated for ODBM client connections to IMS DB and for OTMA client connections to IMS TM. After you enable RACF statistics, the statistics are updated no more than once per day.

Before you enable RACF security statistics to be recorded when IMS Connect issues the RACF call RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY, ensure that RACF=Y is specified in the HWS statement of the HWSCFGxx IMS PROCLIB member. If RACF=N is used in the HWS statement, IMS Connect does not issue the RACF call RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY; therefore, RACF statistics will not be recorded.

To enable RACF statistics for ODBM client connections to IMS DB, use one of the following methods:

To enable RACF statistics in the ODACCESS statement of the HWSCFGxx member of the IMS PROCLIB data set, specify ODRACFST=Y.
To enable RACF statistics by updating the RACF statistics option online, use the ODRACFST(ON) keyword on the UPDATE IMSCON TYPE(CONFIG) command.

To enable RACF statistics for OTMA client connections to IMS TM, use one of the following methods:

To enable RACF statistics in the HWS statement of the HWSCFGxx member of the IMS PROCLIB data set, specify TMRACFST=Y.
To enable RACF statistics by updating the RACF statistics option online, use the TMRACFST(ON) keyword on the UPDATE IMSCON TYPE(CONFIG) command.

After you enable RACF statistics, IMS Connect uses the STAT=ASIS parameter on the RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY call. With STAT=ASIS, the RACF messages and statistics are controlled by the installation's current options on the RACF SETROPTS command.

After you enable RACF statistics, the statistics are recorded by RACF no more than once per day to a system management facility (SMF) data set or log stream. The SMF data set or log stream that is used to record the RACF statistics is specified in the RACF configuration.