Re: QSCWCHPS Generating a lot of JS-T Audit Journal Entries

[Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx>]

After doing some testing on my box here, I can confirm that there is 
some kind of swapping going on by the IBM i OS when a call is made to a 
watch exit program.  The audit journal indicates that the profile is 
being swapped from QUSER to the application profile that started the 
watch.  I'm wondering if starting the watch as QUSER would resolve some 
of this?

Rich Loeber - @richloeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com

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On 12/10/2020 4:41 PM, Peter Dow wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
> I ran into this myself using STRWCH.  What I didn't understand at 
> first is that each message the watch monitor sees that matches your 
> criteria starts a new QSCWCHPS job.  If you get 100 messages, that's 
> 100 jobs started.  Each of those jobs runs your watch event program, 
> so if that program is swapping profiles, you will get ab audit journal 
> entry each time the program swaps profiles.  100 messages means 100 
> jobs means 100 journal entries if you event program just does one 
> profile swap.
>
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> /
> On 12/10/2020 11:56 AM, Rich Loeber wrote:
> > I have a customer that is seeing a ton of JS-T security audit journal 
> > entries being generated for QSCWCHPS.  This is the Watch function 
> > (STRWCH) running.  The type T entry is described as "Change profile 
> > or group profile using profile token".
> >
> > Any insight in to how the volume of journals might be reduced while 
> > still being able to use the STRWCH feature would be much 
> > appreciated.  I don't see any information about this at the IBM 
> > Knowledge Center.
> >
> > Rich Loeber - @richloeber
> > Kisco Information Systems
> > http://www.kisco.com