RACF Administration and Auditing
Overview
It introduces the concepts, terminology, commands, and procedures involved in administering and auditing RACF. All major aspects of day-to-day RACF administration and auditing are covered.
This course is suitable for RACF Administrators and Auditors, Systems Programmers and any other technicians requiring a knowledge of RACF administration principles and practices.
On successful completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Explain the need for security in business information systems
- Describe how RACF meets business information systems security needs
- Design a group structure to meet their installation’s requirements
- Explain & use RACF commands
- Describe the effect of the various group profile related parameters
- Explain the management and use of the various non-RACF segments in user profiles
- Connect users to groups and manage the assigned group authorities
- Use the dataset related commands to manage both discrete and generic profiles
- Manage general resources
- Use and explain the operation of the setropts management commands Use and interpret the output of the Data Security Monitor
- Use the database unload utility, cross reference utility, remove id utility, database verification utility,
- Database split/merge/extend utility, and the database block update utility.
Training Partners
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Modules
Prerequisites
Attendees should have a clear understanding of zOS at a conceptual level and also have a basic understanding of RACF that can be gained by attending the RSM course Understanding RACF. A working knowledge of TSO/ISPF and JCL is also required.