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If you ever come across a situation where you need to get rid of a profile from RACF but for some odd reason it’s proving to be a difficult task, you may relax; RACKILL utility is here for the rescue. The RACKILL utility allows you to unconditionally delete profiles in […]
It is important to ensure that your TSO resources on the mainframe are secured. The following table contains the list of RACF classes and corresponding profiles available to protect TSO resources: RACF class name Profile name Resource protected TSOPROC procedure name Logon procedure ACCTNUM account number Account number for […]
It’s important to keep your z/OS system datasets protected. The table below, sets the advised security UACC settings to many of the system datasets. For system data sets that are listed in with a UACC greater than NONE, you might prefer to specify UACC(NONE) and create an access control list […]
The Application Identity Mapping (AIM) is a RACF feature that provides translation between the RACF userid and the names that other software calls users (e.g. in z/OS Unix System Services the users are called UIDs). AIM has 4 stages: Stage 0 = Pre-conversion database Stage 1 = Builds and maintains, […]
Probably not known to many people is the existence or how to use the CLIST parameter of the RACF SEARCH command. Its usefulness however makes it worthwhile for everyone to learn how it works. As you may know, to query the RACF database for the existence of profiles, we rely […]
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