Rex,

If the DSN is less than 17-characters and CA 1 rejects it; I am wondering if 
Filemanager is dynamically adding an extra HLQ before doing the OPEN and has 
98000 specified to bypass the tape management system. If you look at the job 
that ran successfully, what DSN was actually allocated? Was it the correct name?

And when you say that CA 1 rejects the access when the DSN is less than 
17-characters, what exactly is the rejection message? 

Lastly, is the FUNC option enabled (YES or EXT) within CA 1? This would allow 
you to control who can use 98000 to bypass CA 1.

Russell Witt
CA 1 Development 

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Pommier, Rex
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 1:23 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [External] Re: Filemanager and security

Hi Bob,

Sorry for the delay.  RACF is showing "TAPE DATA SET PROTECTION IS ACTIVE" .  
CA-1 won't allow me to browse the tape using FM if I shrink the DSN or change 
it to something other than what is recorded in TMS.  ICHBLP is defined with 
UACC(NONE) and no users in the access list.  

Thanks,

Rex

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Of Robert S. Hansel (RSH)
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 5:30 AM
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Subject: [External] Re: Filemanager and security

Hi Rex,

How have you activated tape protection in your environment - SETROPTS, 
PARMLIB(DEVSUPxx), or a Tape Management product option? What Tape Management 
product do you have?

Not that this may matter, but does your ID have READ access to FACILITY ICHBLP 
or your Tape Management product's equivalent? If it does, have you tried the 
function with an ID that does not have this access?

Regards, Bob

Robert S. Hansel
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-----Original Message-----
Date:    Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:08:16 +0000
From:    "Pommier, Rex" <rpomm...@sfgmembers.com>
Subject: Re: [External] Re: Filemanager and security

Hi Kolusu,

Unfortunately that doesn't do it.  According to the FileManager documentation - 
which I verified on my system - granting any kind of access (read, update, 
alter, it doesn't matter) either grants you access to the function or denies it 
(access=none).  For example, if I grant READ access to FILEM.TAPE.OUTPUT, I 
have access to update tapes.  Likewise if I grant ALTER access to 
FILEM.TAPE.INPUT, all that gives me access to is tape browse type functions 
like tape browse and tape label display.  These are just toggles to the 
function within FileManager.  The problem that I am running into is that for 
example, if I have 2 production datasets on tape, one with GL information and 
the other with the payroll information on it, and I need to grant an accountant 
access to the GL information but not the payroll, it appears that I can't.  It 
looks like FileManager doesn't check dataset level access.  Once I grant access 
to FILEM.TAPE.INPUT, a user can browse data on any tape on the system, 
regardless of whether they have access at a dataset level or not.  

I'm hoping I just have something set wrong, but I can't seem to get FileManager 
to look at dataset level RACF protection on tapes.  As I mentioned earlier, I 
have a mixed GDG, with some generations on disk and others on tape.  If I grant 
an ID access to the TB function, whether through FILEM.FUNCTION.TB or through 
the grouping profile FILEM.TAPE.INPUT, I can look at the data on the tape, even 
though I can't look at the other generation that's on disk through FileManager. 
 

Test I just reran this morning.  GDG with 5 generations, 4 on disk, 1 on tape.  

ISPF edit on one of the disk based generations I got RACF security violation, 
ACCESS INTENT(READ   )  ACCESS ALLOWED(NONE   )
Filemanager option 2 edit on the same generation as ISPF:  ACCESS INTENT(READ   
)  ACCESS ALLOWED(NONE   )
Filemanager option 4.1, Tape Browse: FILEM.FUNCTION.TB CL(FACILITY)    ACCESS 
INTENT(READ   )  ACCESS ALLOWED(NONE   )    
Change FILEM.FUNCTION.TB to give me READ access to the FACILITY profile 
Filemanager option 4.1:  I got access to browse the data Filemanager option 2 
with the tape generation: I got access.

Looks like it's time for a question to IBM FM folks to see if this is WAD.  In 
my mind, this is a security hole.

Rex

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Sri h Kolusu
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2018 4:21 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [External] Re: Filemanager and security

Pommier Rex,

I believe you need to update the following functions


FILEM.TAPE.INPUT
    Tape input functions
FILEM.TAPE.OUTPUT
    Tape output functions
FILEM.TAPE.DUPLICATE
    Tape copy functions
FILEM.TAPE.UPDATE
    Tape update functions

If you are only allowing browse function of the tape dataset then you need to 
do something like this


PERMIT FILEM.TAPE.INTPUT CLASS(FACILITY) ID(userid) ACCESS(READ)

Check this link which explains in detail about the function

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSXJAV_13.1.0/com.ibm.filemanager.doc_13.1/cust/secracf.html

Thanks,
Kolusu

IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote on
04/09/2018 12:10:19 PM:

> From: " SH19-8163-00, Rex" <rpomm...@sfgmembers.com>
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Date: 04/09/2018 12:11 PM
> Subject: Filemanager and security
> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>
>
> Hello list,
>
> I've been poring through the FileManager manuals and either am missing 
> something or it doesn't exist regarding security.  We're running FM 
> 13.1 under ISPF so non-APF authorized.  I needed to grant the 
> capability for browsing tape datasets to a developer.  I did this 
> granting READ access to FILEM.FUNCTION.TB.  This granted the access to 
> the tape browse function.  However, it appears that FileManager 
> bypasses dataset name SAF checking if the user has access to the TB 
> function.  To wit: a particular GDG has a mix of tape and disk 
> generations.  I specifically denied access to this GDG to my ID.  I 
> get a RACF violation when trying to browse the disk based generation, 
> but FileManager allows me to use TB to look at the tape generation.  
> Is this WAS or am I missing some setting that tells FM to do dataset 
> name SAF checking as well as FM function checking?
>
> TIA,
>
> Rex
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