The temporary PS files (files with the suffix ".U", see above) created by openFT during the transfer of PO or PDSE data sets may contain confidential information. For this reason, you may want the contents of these files to be physically deleted when the files are deleted by openFT.
Any openFT user can control this, e.g. by using the IBM product RACF to create a "generic profile" for all files created internally by openFT for this user which are to be physically deleted after use. The parameter "Erase when deleted" must then be set to "YES" for this profile.
Since this procedure causes files to be overwritten with dummy information in z/OS systems, it involves a high degree of CPU and I/O time consumption.
Example
The user with the user ID MILLER, who also uses this ID in the TRANSFER-
ADMISSION of the NCOPY command, wants the intermediate files, created internally by openFT for the transfer of entire PO or PDSE data sets, to be physically deleted. To this end, the user creates the following "generic profile" (RACF):
'MILLER.*.U'
The parameter "Erase when deleted" is set to "YES" for this profile.