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RACF

UACC and ID(*) in RACF

4th October 2014 Rui Miguel Feio
If you work with mainframes, you are probably familiar with UACC (universal access) and ID(*). Many people believe that UACC and ID(*) represent the same thing. This is not true. They are slightly different and you need to take the difference in consideration when planning your RACF security environment. Access Authority Description […]
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CARLa to list RACF Global Access Table Profiles

19th August 2014 Rui Miguel Feio
The following CARLa script will list the RACF Global Access Table (GAT) profiles: n i=base s c=general and s=base c=GLOBAL sortlist class(key,pas) searchkey(key,nondispl) key(key,pas,12), memlst(header,0,sort) The result of the above CARLa script should look like: Class Profile key Members GLOBAL DATASET &RACUID.**/ALTER SYS1.HELP/READ  
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CARLa to report on the number of users connected to each RACF group

7th August 2014 Rui Miguel Feio
The following CARLa will report on all RACF groups and the number of  users connected to them: newlist type=RACF select c=group s=base sortlist key(‘Group’,8) owner supgroup aclcnt The result of the above CARLa script should look like: Group    Owner    SupGroup Perms #AUX     #RMF     #RMF         2 #LUXBRG  #RMF     #RMF         0 #RMF     SYS1     SYS1       […]
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CARLa to list RACF user’s attributes

1st August 2014 Rui Miguel Feio
The following CARLa will produce a list of RACF userids and their attributes: newlist type=RACF select class=user segment=base sortlist key(8) pgmrname owner dfltgrp revoke(8) special operations auditor   The output report produced is: Profile Name         Owner   DfltGrp Revoked Spc Opr Aud USER01  TEST USER 01 TESTGRP TESTGRP YES USER02  TEST […]