FMN2POPT-controlled auditing

Use the AUDIT option in FMN2SSDM to customize how FM/Db2 records an audit trail.

  • No audit trail produced under any circumstances. Specify AUDIT=NONE.
  • Optional for the current FM/Db2 session. An audit trail is produced if the individual user wants to record audit information, but the audit option is reset to "not selected" when a File Manager/Db2 session ends. Specify AUDIT=(OPTIONAL,OFF).
  • Optional for this and subsequent FM/Db2 sessions. An audit trail is produced if the individual user wants to record audit information. The current setting of the audit option is saved in the ISPF profile between FM/Db2 sessions. Specify AUDIT=(OPTIONAL,PROFILE).
  • Required. An audit trail is produced for each user, regardless of whether the user wants to record audit information. Specify AUDIT=(REQUIRED,....).
  • Demand. An audit trail is produced for each user, regardless of whether the user wants to record audit information. An audit report job is submitted when the edit function ends or when you change SSIDs. Specify AUDIT=(DEMAND,....).

    The job submitted is determined by the skeleton member FMN.SFMNSLIB(FMN2FTAD). Customize the job card and JCL to specify the reporting options you require. To change the audit report options in the skeleton see "AUD (Print Audit Trail Report)" in the File Manager User's Guide and Reference.

When recording of audit information is optional, this is determined by the individual setting of Create an audit trail in the user's Editor global options.

For optional auditing, AUDIT=(OPTIONAL,OFF) is suggested as the best option when audit data is written to data sets, rather than SMF, and when auditing is an exceptional, rather than a normal process.

Note: The AUDIT option is active only when data is modified via the editor (view, browse or edit) or copy utility. The setting of this option is ignored for any other File Manager function that allows data to be modified, and for data modified by the ISPF editor, even though this is from within File Manager.

Auditing can be selectively disabled when using FM/Db2 view or browse by specifying AUDITBROWSE=N in the FMN2SSDM macro definition for a Db2® system. Specifying this option does not affect the audit records produced when using FM/Db2 edit. See AUDITBROWSE for information about AUDITBROWSE.