Specifying an OTMA ACEE aging value in the IMS Connect configuration member

The ACEE contains user IDs and other security information. OTMA caches the ACEE to improve the performance of the security checking that OTMA performs. The ACEEs are used to validate the authority of the user IDs included with the input messages passed by IMS Connect to the transactions and commands being requested.

To ensure that this security information is correct, OTMA automatically refreshes an ACEE with the security information that is stored in RACF when z/OS® notifies IMS that the security information was modified. However, OTMA also refreshes ACEEs at defined intervals, regardless of whether z/OS notifies IMS of changes. The interval between refreshes of the ACEE is determined by the ACEE aging value, which is set in OTMA.