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Workspace IBM i
Categories Security
Created by Guest
Created on May 14, 2024

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Provide a view to list all files/objects which have authority collection turned on (i.e. AUTCOLVAL(*OBJINF))

Due to the nature of authority collection, it's common to leave it turned on for days/weeks.  It's easy to lose track of what objects are being collected.  Checking across the entire LPAR is generally not feasible (including the IFS).  One roundabout way of checking is to query a DISTINCT list of objects (or IFS paths) which have authority check entries in the authority collection repository, but this will only include objects for which an authority check has been recorded.  That's probably "good enough" but it seems like there should be a way to list all of the objects for which authority collection has been turned on.  This will help system administrators.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 9, 2024

    I don't see how that's a solution. As I mentioned in the original Idea description, you would have to run this query across the entire LPAR (every library and also the entire IFS).

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 9, 2024
    IBM believes that the solution for the Idea described is available using the SQL logic described by Christian Jorgensen.

    IBM Power Systems Development
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 18, 2024

    Since object authority collection in controlled by an object attribute, you can find QSYS.LIB objects with authority collection turned on with the following SQL:


    create or replace function OBJECTS_WITH_AUTHORITY_COLLECTED(
      Object_library  varchar(  10 ) default '*ALL'
    , Object_name     varchar(  10 ) default '*ALL'
    , Object_types    varchar( 812 ) default '*ALL'
    )
    returns table (
      OBJLIB                      varchar( 10 )
    , OBJNAME                     varchar( 10 )
    , OBJTYPE                     varchar(  8 )
    , AUTHORITY_COLLECTION_VALUE  varchar( 10 )
    )

    begin
      return
        select o.OBJLIB
             , o.OBJNAME
             , o.OBJTYPE
             , o.AUTHORITY_COLLECTION_VALUE
          from table( QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS( OBJECT_SCHEMA => 'QSYS', OBJTYPELIST => '*LIB', OBJECT_NAME => Object_library ) ) l
             , table( QSYS2.OBJECT_STATISTICS( OBJECT_SCHEMA => l.OBJNAME, OBJTYPELIST => Object_types, OBJECT_NAME => Object_name ) ) o
         where o.AUTHORITY_COLLECTION_VALUE <> '*NONE'
        ;
    end

    You could create a similar function for IFS objects using the IFS_OBJECT_STATISTICS table function.


    Best regards,

    Christian Jorgensen - CEAC member

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