What is the purpose of RACF

mrlee · New User Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4

Hi Friendz

What is the purpose of RACF.Plz send the any information or screen shots regarding RACF.

Regards
MRLee

superk · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:57 pm

RACF is the Resource Access Control Facility. It is the facility for securing access for users to system resources, and access for users and systems to data.

A good starting point might be here:

www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/

ajmats13 · New User Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Bangalore

RACF is the Resource Access Control Facility.
This is used for user account administration in mainframe.
You can create/modify/delete accounts and grant access in various groups.
The amount of administration rights depends on the client but most of the times you can monitor CICS,TSO,IDMS etc.

phil rook · New User Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 12 Location: amsterdam

RACF. is the IBM security package - Your user id can be attached to a RACF profile - which gives you access to the datasets you are allowed to access. THe RACF controller must do this.

iknow · Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2005 2:01 pm

Hi mrlee,

As a follow up of other replies let me just add some more information about RACF.

RACF stands for Resource Access Control Facility. RACF is a software security product that protects information by controlling access to it. RACF also controls what the user can do and protects all of the operating system's resources. RACF provides this security by identifying and verifying users, authorizing users to access protected resources and recording and reporting access attempts.

RACF helps meet the needs for security by providing the ability to:

One specific RACF user, called the RACF administrator, has the ability to define users and resources to RACF. As well as defining what resources to protect, the RACF administrator can define and grant the authorities by which users access the protected resources.