OpenFrame/TACF 7.1

This chapter briefly describes new features of OpenFrame/TACF 7.1. For further details on each feature, refer to the respective guide.

1. Updated Features

This section describes updated features of the new version.

1.1. Supporting Fully-Qualified Generic Profile

  • TACF 7.0 defined a fully-qualified generic profile (a generic data set profile whose name contains no special characters such as %, * or **.) by using the UNIT (G) parameter.

  • TACF 7.1 defines a fully-qualified generic profile by using the GENERIC parameter.

  • In the following two examples, TACF 7 and TACF 7.1 define respectively a fully-qualified generic profile.

    • TACF 7

      ADDSD ROOT.DMAN0201 UNIT(G)

    • TACF 7.1

      ADDSD ROOT.DMAN0201 GENERIC

1.2. Adding tacfmigin

  • TACF 7.1 uses the tacfmigin tool to read files containing the entire RACF privileges of the host system, to prints TACF commands in a script file.

    For more information about the tacfmigin tool, refer to OpenFrame Tool Reference Guide.

1.3. Managing OpenFrame Configuration Information as Tables

  • Modified so that the existing file-based OpenFrame configuration information can be managed as tables in a database.

  • Changed the configuration meta file format to be loaded in a database, and separated each file by individual product.

  • Modified to load data into TmaxTCache, to synchronize the configuration information and support multi-node environments.

  • Added the ofconfig tool, to manage the modified configuration information structure.

    1. For more information about OpenFrame Configuration, refer to OpenFrame Configuration Guide.

    2. For more information about how to use the ofconfig tool, refer to OpenFrame Tool Reference Guide.

1.4. Managing Error Codes as Tables

  • Modified so that the existing file-based OpenFrame error information can be managed as tables in a database.

  • Added the insert feature to the oferror tool to load the error information into a database.

    For more information about the oferror tool, refer to OpenFrame Tool Reference Guide.

1.5. Formatting System and Server Logs

  • Formatted logs for all OpenFrame products.

  • Improved the date-hour display format in logs.

    • Service log format

      [YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.ffffff] [SERVICE-NAME(PID)] [M] [MSGCODE] MESSAGE-CONTENTS

    • System log format

      [YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.ffffff] [EXECUTED-MODULE] [CODE] [MSGCODE] EVENT FREE-FORMAT-CONTENTS

    • Operational log format

      [YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.ffffff] [EXECUTED-MODULE] [CODE] [MSGCODE] EVENT FREE-FORMAT-CONTENTS

      For more information about logs in OpenFrame, refer to "Appendix.D Log Management" in OpenFrame Base Guide.