This class is the logical representation of a CIM provider. Its only properties are the name of the provider, the name of the provider module in which the code of the provider physically resides and the name of a SAF security profile to be checked before a client is granted access to the provider.

string ProviderModuleName

The name of the provider module containing the code for this provider. This name needs to match the value of the Name property of the corresponding instance of class PG_ProviderModule.

string Name

The name of the provider. This name is used to identify a specific provider within a provider module (dynamic load library) and specifies the prefix of a provider’s _Create_<mi-type>MI() initialization function.

string SecurityAccessProfile

This property defines the name of a z/OS security server's profile in the CIM server’s WBEM class that will be checked for a requestor’s access before a request is routed to this provider. Depending on the type of the CIM operation, a different level of access to the security profile is required as listed in Table 2.

This is not a required property and can be omitted from the provider registration MOF.

Example of an instance of class PG_Provider in MOF syntax:

instance of PG_Provider
{
   //The provider module as defined in PG_ProviderModule
   ProviderModuleName = "TestClassProviderModule";
   // The provider name as referenced in the code
   Name = "TestClassProvider";
};