RACF - Managing RACF Groups and Administrative Authorities 2.4

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
Display Users Connected to Groups
Group Authorities - JOIN, USE, CREATE, and CONNECT
Class Authorities
Defining Delegation Authorities
System and Group SPECIAL Attribute
System and Group OPERATIONS Attribute
Scope of Group Concepts