Steps for granting authority to start the Agents

Follow these steps after you decide who you want to be able to start the Agents.

Procedure

Perform the following steps to grant authority to start the Agents:

  1. Ensure that the OPERCMDS class is active and RACLISTed, and RACLIST processing is enabled. If you have already done this for the Advisor, you can skip this step. 
    SETROPTS CLASSACT(OPERCMDS)
SETROPTS RACLIST (OPERCMDS)
  2. Define the following OPERCMDS class profile using a security product like RACF®: 
    RDEFINE  OPERCMDS (MVS.SERVMGR.LBAGENT) UACC(NONE)
  3. Grant the Agents access to the OPERCMDS class: 
    PERMIT   MVS.SERVMGR.LBAGENT CLASS(OPERCMDS) ACCESS(CONTROL) -
                  ID(userid)
  4. Refresh the OPERCMDS class: 
    SETROPTS RACLIST(OPERCMDS) REFRESH
  5. See the EZARACF sample in SEZAINST for specific instructions. All commands that you can issue against the Agents are MODIFY commands, with the exception of the STOP command used to stop the Agents. Therefore, you might also want to limit which users are able to issue MODIFY and STOP commands.
Parent topic: Step 4: Decide who will have authority to start the Agents (optional)