IBM provides several utilities for RACF that can be helpful for a mainframe security administrator. Without going into much detail on each of the RACF utilities, the following table provides an explanation of what each of these utilities is for: Utility Description IRRMIN00 RACF database initialisation utility. IRRMIN00 can be […]
On November 25th, RSM Partners will be hosting the RSM Security Working Group, where I will be presenting a session around security on the mainframe: How to Protect Your Mainframe from Hackers In this session Rui will draw on his experience as a mainframe security lead to expose real and […]
SAF or System Authorisation Facility is an interface defined by MVS that enables programs to use system authorisation services to control access to resources, such as datasets, MVS commands, JES, etc. SAF can either process security authorisation requests directly, or work with an External Security Manager (ESM) such as RACF, […]
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