Simplified authorization requirements for real-time TCP/IP network monitoring NMI

The real-time TCP/IP network monitoring network management interface (NMI) provides real-time data that network management applications can obtain. This NMI comprises the following service interfaces:

SYSTCPDA: TCP/IP packet and data trace data
SYSTCPCN: TCP connection SMF data
SYSTCPOT: OSAENTA trace data
SYSTCPSM: SMF data

Applications use the TMI copy buffer interface of the NMI to copy the real-time data to the application storage.

As of z/OS® V1R13 Communications Server, network management applications that use this NMI are no longer required to be APF authorized to call the TMI copy buffer interface to copy the real-time data to the application storage. If an application is not APF authorized, the administrator must define the security product resource profiles of the real-time interface that the application is using and give the user ID of the application READ access to the resources.