The enhancements listed in this document are available with Natural Security Version 6.3.1. The following topics are covered:
With Version 6.3.1, you can continue to use your existing FSEC system file. No migration of Natural Security data from the previous version to the current version is necessary.
If you use functional security within Natural Security, that is, if you
use the command processor NSCCMD01 to disallow functions within
the library SYSSEC, this now has a "WYSIWYG" effect:
If functions are disallowed in NSCCMD01, the corresponding menu
items will not be visible on the Natural Security menus. This means that within
SYSSEC you will only see the functions you are allowed to use.
The following new direct commands - and keywords in
NSCCMD01 - are available to invoke Administrator Services
functions directly:
| Command | Function Invoked |
|---|---|
ADMIN_D |
Library And User Preset Values |
ADMIN_I |
Application Programming Interfaces |
ADMIN_N |
Maintenance Log Records |
ADMIN_S |
System-Library Definitions |
ADMIN_U |
User Default Profiles |
ADMIN_X |
Utility Defaults/Templates |
ADMIN_Y |
Library Default Profiles |
ADMIN_1 |
Environment Profiles |
With previous versions of Natural Security, the general option Concurrent Modifications Without Notification only applied to mailbox profiles. As of this version, it also applies to user profiles, library profiles and special-link profiles.
As a result, Natural Security may react differently when you modify a user, library or special-link profile.
Several new system libraries (that is, libraries whose names begin with "SYS") are provided with this Natural version. They are included in the list of libraries provided by the Administrator Services function System-Library Definitions, which you can use to automatically create security profiles for them.
The use of the new Natural object type "adapter" can also be controlled by Natural Security: This is done by allowing/disallowing the editing of the object type "adapter" in the Editing Restrictions section of library profiles.
The initialization of the Natural utility SYSOBJH (Natural
Object Handler) under Natural Security has been improved to make the use of the
utility more user-friendly: With previous versions, users were not notified
that they were not allowed to use a selected function/option until they
actually attempted to execute it. Now a disallowed function/option is
intercepted at the earliest possible stage in the selection process.
The new application programming interface
NSCXLO
allows you to read the maintenance log records, which are created by Natural
Security if the general option Logging of Maintenance
Functions has been activated.
With previous versions of Natural Security, the application programming
interface
NSCXRIER could only be invoked from
within the library SYSSEC. As of this version, it can also be
invoked from outside SYSSEC.
