Managing RACF Groups and Administrative Authorities

Duration

3 hours

Overview

The “RACF - Managing RACF Groups and Administrative Authorities” course follows on from the “RACF -Defining and Managing Users” course describing how users can be connected to group profiles and can be assigned special privileged access.

Audience

Application programmers, systems programmers, database administrators, security administrators and anyone requiring knowledge about how user access is defined using RACF on the z/OS platform.

Prerequisites

Successful completion of the “RACF - Defining and Managing Users” course or equivalent knowledge.

Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

• Describe the use and structure of group profiles
• Enter commands used to maintain group profiles
• Maintain group profiles using the RACF ISPF interface
• Connect and remove users from Groups
• Explain how Group Authorities and User Attributes are used

Course Content

Connecting Users, Groups, and Administration Authorities

Connecting and Removing Users from Groups
Group Authorities - JOIN, USE, CREATE, and CONNECT
SPECIAL Attribute
AUDITOR and ROAUDIT Attributes
OPERATIONS
CLAUTH Attribute
REVOKE Attribute
GRPACC Attribute
ADSP Attribute
RESTRICTED Attribute