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z/OS Spawner

z/OS Spawner Requirements


Location of the z/OS Spawner

The z/OS spawner program, SASTCPD, is located in the SAS load library. If the BPX.DAEMON RACF profile is enabled and RACF Program Control is active, then this library must be RACF program controlled.


z/OS Spawner User ID Requirement

If the BPX.DAEMON profile in the RACF FACILITY class and RACF Program Control are active, then the user ID for the spawner started task does not require superuser (uid=0) authority.

The spawner user ID does not require READ access to the BPX.DAEMON profile.

The spawner no longer requires APF authorization.


Assigning a User ID to the Started Task

To assign a user ID to the started task, do either of the following:

For details, see z/OS Security Server (RACF) Command Language Reference from IBM.


z/OS Version Level Requirement

The spawner requires z/OS Version 2 Release 10.

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