Re: Retrieve screen history in ACS...

Hi Paul

I was thinking als about STRCPYSCN - the archive things is basically just that - it captures what has just processed - now the archive does have that history file, and it is a PKZIP archive - and one of the files in the archive has the characters of each screen captured - something else makes them look like images in the viewer.

So a person COULD open up the history file and get all the screens as text - just as STRCPYSCN lets you do.

Cheers
Vern

On 1/28/2019 5:26 PM, Paul Roy wrote:

what about using STRCPYSCN command...
I remember an audit function recording screen image for some "sensitives"
transactions..

Paul




From: Robert Rogerson <rogersonra@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 29/01/2019 00:17
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@Paul, this is for documentation purposes. As an aside, we do use
journals extensively and have a nightly extract set up which retains the
daily transactions and stores the data in "extract files" which can
easily be queried at a later time. We have found this invaluable for
resolving both software and user issues.

@John, thanks for the idea of a third party tool but at this point we're
just trying to understand what ACS has to offer out of the box.

@Jack Silly Putty is so passé. I can get better resolution taking a
picture with my Nokia Flip Phone

Thanks to all who responded.

Rob

On 1/28/2019 5:41 PM, Musselman, Paul wrote:

Rob (the other Rob)--

Is this to be a one-time exercise to document the procedure, or a means

of tracking down who did what to whom?

From the course of this thread, I'm assuming that a nice log(4 00

*seclvl) logclpgm(*YES) joblog is not sufficient...

What we've been doing is journaling our files. This is required for our

backup process (MIMIX - to copy data from our production to our backup
system), but as a 2ndary benefit, we capture the transactions for key
files and tuck them away for error analysis. Then, when a user asks, "Who
changed this order?!" we can look at the journal receivers and say, "You
did-- on the 14th of December at 10:33 in the morning." This goes a long
way towards determining if we have a software or a user malfunction. (:

Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Subject: Re: Retrieve screen history in ACS...

What we trying to accomplish is a document which shows the steps/screens
a user took in order to accomplish a task. So yes, we do want images
(in one form or another). What I've found from you and Vern is that it
is possible although manual steps are required.

This may be acceptable but a fully automatic solution would be even

better.

Rob