Expired or deleted RACF accounts that are still active in DB2
Hello, I have a question related to ‘expired or deleted RACF accounts that are still active in DB2′. In our shop, with z/OS as the operating system and RACF as a security tool. While DB2 native security is used to manage access for each of the DB2 objects such as database, table, view, or storage [...]

Answer Question   |  March 14, 2012  10:10 PM
DB2, RACF, z/OS

UACC vs Generic Userid
As a long time RACF guy, I have believed that although it would be a rare scenario to exploit this, Universal Access (UACC) will allow access to an ‘MVS user’ that is not necessarily RACF defined and hasn’t been authenticated through RACF, yet Generic Userid (*) equates to ‘any RACF defined user’, which requires the [...]

Answer Question   |  October 14, 2011  6:20 PM
Generic User UACC, RACF, z/OS

What is CTC and ATC and refreshing the RACF?
Can someonre give a high level view odf what CTC1 and ATC1 is? Also says the RACF was refreshed?

Answer Question   |  September 15, 2009  3:52 PM
Acronyms, RACF, Resource Access Control Facility

GET OPID SEGMENT CICS FROM A COBOL/DB2/CICS PROGRAM (RACF)
Please I need Get the OPID segment CICS  of RACF from a COBOL/CICS  Program.   Thanks JORGE

Answer Question   |  September 9, 2009  12:27 PM
CICS, COBOL, DB2, OS/390, RACF

Copy RACF dataset profile rules between LPARs
We have 5 lpars. I need to copy approx 100 dataset profile rules from one lpar to another. I’m fairly new to racf and not sure how to do this or of you can. Thanks.

Answer Question   |  January 16, 2009  1:58 PM
LPAR, RACF, Resource Access Control Facility

Best Practice for RACF
Our security & control is weak. The application development has created multiple user id for some users. When a user leaves the company, they revoke his user but NEVER remove the ID for audit trail. On top, it looks like the application development is building a how to for RACF around their application. In real [...]

Answer Question   |  February 6, 2008  3:31 AM
RACF, RACF maintanance, Security best practices

Getting RACF Active Classes List
Hello, I am developing an assembler code (z/OS) getting the RACF Active Classes List. It should use CDT (CNST) and RCVTVCPR (RCVT), I suppose, but I haven’t understood how this RACF algorithm works. Can anybody help, please? Thanks

Answer Question   |  January 23, 2008  4:54 PM
CDT, RACF, RRCVTVCPR, z/OS

Reporting for RACF (Resource Access Control Facility) question
A question that was emailed to us: We are running RACF on a Z/OS mainframe and I am trying to get a report from RACF detailing users that have group access. I have a list from DSMON that tells me who has the special attribute on group connect but wanted a listing of each group [...]

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2008  5:04 PM
DSMON, RACF, Resource Access Control Facility, z/OS