The Duplicate Session Control for CICS

"... a flexible control that prevents the abuse of shared userids and allows swapping between CICS applications from a single terminal session."

A southeastern bank contracts with a data entry services provider to process daily transactions. If contract staff share userids, the audit capability essential for these transactions is compromised. But other job functions have different sharing requirements. Some personnel are authorized for multiple concurrent sessions when performing specified tasks.

The challenge:

To assure unique sign-ons for restricted functions while maintaining the flexibility to support multiple access where appropriate.

The solution:

CICS-DupS beefs up your security by giving you control of the number of concurrent sessions permitted for a single userid. Concurrent access authorization can be varied by excluding userids or by restricting multiple sessions to single device. Session limits and exclusions are dynamic and may be altered on the fly. CICS-DupS includes a convenient swap facility that supports two concurrent applications from a single session. CICS-DupS runs independently of existing sign-on facilities and requires no tweaking of local code.

Bottom line:

Improved CICS security with flexible session controls.

Features and Benefits:

Improves security

Eliminates shared userid problems

Supports dynamic, installation defined, limits and exclusions

Supports swapping between two applications on one terminal session

Optionally limits multiple sessions to a single device

Optionally customize limits per userid

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