IBM Safenet/400 manual Recommended approach to testing

Recommended approach to testing

A recommended approach to using the On-Line Transaction Testing program is:

1.Set all of the important server functions to Security Level 1, Log All. This will log all requests without affecting any users. Set your Future Server settings or use the pre- loaded recommended values.

Turn off logging on the non-critical servers to limit logging.

2.Collect your requests and print out the Security Report by User from the Network Transaction Analysis Reports Menu. Select Historical Review.

3.Set up your User to Server and User to Object, SQL, FTP, CL, etc. tables if you wish to go to Security Level 4.

4.You can use several tools provided with SafeNet/400 to test your security settings. Use the Security Report by User or the on-line version, PCTESTR. These can be run to test the collected transactions against the current or future server settings. (Use Future Setting)

5.Use ‘Show only Rejections’ on PCTESTR and ‘Print only Rejections’ on the batch report. If your settings are correct for the Security Levels being tested, you should receive messages only for transactions that would be rejected.

If any of the requests are rejected, check the message description and make the appropriate corrections to the SafeNet/400 settings. Try the transaction again.

Note: If you request Level 4, you may only get a security check to Level 3 since some servers support only up to Level 3. This is noted on each record in the On-Line Transaction Testing as “Level Requested”, “Level Checked” and “Max Level”.

SafeNet/400 Reference Guide
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