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From: Tom on 9 Nov 2009 18:47
Is there a CICS transaction provided by CICS that allowed to add or
remove CICS users from the SNT table? Rather than using command line,
I would like do this programmatically.

Thanks.
From: Arnold Trembley on 10 Nov 2009 00:50
Tom wrote:
> Is there a CICS transaction provided by CICS that allowed to add or
> remove CICS users from the SNT table? Rather than using command line,
> I would like do this programmatically.
>
> Thanks.

You could try searching through the IBM CICS manuals, but the answer to
your question is almost certainly NO. You might also try a google
search on "CICS DFHSNT". The SNT table is obsolete.

About 25 years ago I worked in an IBM VM and VSE shop and as part of my
job duties I would re-assemble the DFHSNT table, which contained the
list of userid's, their passwords in the clear, and their bit-mapped
security permissions. It was loaded into memory when CICS started up,
and its contents would be visible in a region/partition dump. So it did
not provide very much security at all.

As far as I know, DFHSNT is no longer included in any currently
supported release of CICS Transaction Server for VSE or MVS (OS/390,
z/OS). Modern CICS installations use the security facilities of the
Operating System instead.


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From: Binyamin Dissen on 10 Nov 2009 10:15
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:47:15 -0800 (PST) Tom <viper.tom(a)gmail.com> wrote:

:>Is there a CICS transaction provided by CICS that allowed to add or
:>remove CICS users from the SNT table? Rather than using command line,
:>I would like do this programmatically.

Is there anyone still using the SNT?

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From: Anonymous on 10 Nov 2009 11:34
In article <gr0jf593fqrp7ms2reiimvt81l5vc8lj59(a)4ax.com>,
Binyamin Dissen <postingid(a)dissensoftware.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:47:15 -0800 (PST) Tom <viper.tom(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>:>Is there a CICS transaction provided by CICS that allowed to add or
>:>remove CICS users from the SNT table? Rather than using command line,
>:>I would like do this programmatically.
>
>Is there anyone still using the SNT?

My memory is, admittedly, porous but I recall that IBM dropped support of
macro-level CICS in the early 1990s and that there were advertisements for
Y2K remediation which requested recent macro-level experience.

DD

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