Year: 2011

Security
RACF

What is RACF and what does it do?

1st July 2011 Rui Miguel Feio

RACF (Resource Access Control Facility) helps to secure an organization’s Mainframe environment by providing: – Flexible control of access to protected resources – Protection of installation-defined resources – Ability to store information for other products – Choice of centralized or decentralized control of profiles – An ISPF panel interface – […]

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JCL

Types of JCL Statements

30th June 2011 Rui Miguel Feio

JOB – Identifies the beginning of a job. The JOB statement informs the operating system of the start of a job, gives the necessary accounting information, and supplies run parameters. Each job must begin with a single JOB statement   EXEC – Indicates what work is to be done. EXEC (execute) statement […]

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Glossary

XCF Group

22nd May 2011 Rui Miguel Feio

A group is the set of related members defined to XCF by a multisystem application in which members of the group can communicate with other members of the same group. A group can span one or more of the systems in a sysplex and represents a complete logical entity to […]

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Glossary

XCF Member

22nd May 2011 Rui Miguel Feio

A member is a specific function (one or more routines) of a multisystem application that is joined to XCF and assigned to a group by the multisystem application. A member concept applies to all authorized routines running in the address space that issued the IXCJOIN macro service. Only for termination […]