CA Dynam for VSE User Guide

Maintaining the Audit Trail File
The Audit Trail report generator lets you design your own reports by specifying
the following criteria:
• Page and heading titles
• Selecting records and fields to be reported upon with easy-to-use
keywords and selection logic
Several predefined reports are also provided. For more information about
predefined reports, see the appendix, “Audit Trail Report Examples.”
Maintaining the Audit Trail File
The Audit Trail Facility - AUDTUTIL
You can run the Audit Trail facility in either basic or extended mode.
• BASIC mode only performs logging of Catalog recovery information. You
may use the Catalog recovery facility with this mode, but none of the
reporting facilities will be available. The logmode is set when the Audit
data set is initialized and may be modified at any time by the AUDTUTIL
DATASET command.
• Run the Audit system in LOGMODE=EXTENDED if you require audit reports
concerning file management activity.
Audit Trail Logging
The system option records for DYNAM, DYNAM/D, DYNAM/T, and DYNAM/FI
provide several options through which you can control the level and amount of
logging performed by the Audit subsystem in each CA Dynam subset. This
control gives you maximum flexibility with minimum overhead. For more
information about option records, see the Programming Guide.
Creating Audit Trail Records
Audit records will be created under a wide variety of conditions, depending
upon the option record settings. If you specify the most extensive auditing,
the following conditions will produce reportable audit records:
• A tape or disk file (controlled or uncontrolled) is opened or closed.
• An end-of-volume condition occurs on tape (controlled or uncontrolled).
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