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shashivarungupta
PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 3:42 am    Post subject: What all Authorizations, last done ? Reply with quote

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Hi,

I have couple of scenarios here..
Do we have any option by which we can identify 'what all authorizations were given to a particular user and on which mq objects and what date/time'.
{I know 'dspmqaut' which shows only authorization level on mq objs for some principal id/group id}
we have an 'amqoamd' and I used it no. of times before but it doesn't show last time/date as it doesn't have this capability. I took the backup of authorities by that 'amqoamd -m QMgrName -s > filename.mqsc' {ofcourse I know when the last backup was taken by the creation date of bkup files}.
As we know by display qlocal(queuename) , it would show the queue creation & last Alteration date&time BUT by we can't guess which Property of that queue was being modified last !!!
Same is the case I wanted to know what all authorization levels were set on a queue in the past, unless I look into the backup file ?
I believe you too might have faced such situations.


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Why would you want to know? Any authorities granted should be only what the applications need, and if those needs change so should the authorities. Your change management and documentation should include the detail of any additions/subtractions, so why double up by 'diffing' authority back-up files?
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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exerk wrote:
Why would you want to know? Any authorities granted should be only what the applications need, and if those needs change so should the authorities. Your change management and documentation should include the detail of any additions/subtractions, so why double up by 'diffing' authority back-up files?


You know application teams demand irrelevant things from middle-ware guys most of the times.
But for us, before making any further changes related to authority on mq objs, anyone would like to know what&when authorities were set on it, 'quickly' !! (though change requests/old docs can speak out but those are time taking and takes effort to create&manage them too.)
I believe we doesn't have that facility AFA oam is concerned (other then amqoamd).

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The auditors (both internal and external) at my last real job wanted the capability to view security permission history - by user, by object, by application, etc.. (Auditors come to the battle scene - after the battle, and shoot the wounded.) In the business big-picture, I don't find this to be an unreasonable request.

One of the sponsors of this site may have such a package.

As an alternative, you will need to extract permissions from OAM (or RACF) on a daily basis; populate them to a database; then write whatever SQL you need to satisfy management.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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bruce2359 wrote:

As an alternative, you will need to extract permissions from OAM (or RACF) on a daily basis; populate them to a database; then write whatever SQL you need to satisfy management.

hmmmm.... another method to keep the data for records.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Another thing which I pointed out here, unfortunately falls under same question :
" As we know by display qlocal(queuename) , it would show the queue creation & last Alteration date&time BUT we can't guess which Property of that queue was being modified last (unless we hit the docs again )!!! "
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...it would show the queue creation & last Alteration date&time BUT we can't guess which Property of that queue was being modified last (unless we hit the docs again )!!! "

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