RACF Administration and Auditing

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.