Audience
PLEASE NOTE: This course is a replacement from the retired IBM course - ES88G.
This intermediate course is for security personnel and RACF support personnel responsible for implementing RACF, administering RACF, or both.
Prerequisites
You should have RACF administration skills. These can obtained by attending Effective RACF Administration - BE87G or Basics of z/OS RACF Administration - ES19G, or through equivalent experience.
Duration
4 days. Hands on.
Course Objectives
This course teaches you how to implement some of the advanced facilities available in Resource Access Control Facility (RACF).
Through a combination of classroom lecture and hands-on lab exercises, you will learn how to establish an RRSF environment,
including using RACF Remote Sharing Facility (RRSF) facilities to administer security of remote RACF databases from a single centralized location,
allowing users to synchronize password changes among several associated userids, using RRSF facilities to automatically maintain synchronization of two or more separate
RACF databases. Other major functions that you will study include RACF support for z/OS UNIX, Network Job Entry (NJE) security, SDSF, operator commands,
program control and backup, recovery of the RACF database, PassTickets, and digital certificates.
- Perform backups and recoveries of the RACF database
- Implement Command, console and SDSF security
- Implement Z/OS UNIX security including its advanced features
- Implement Digital Certificates to be used in an AT-TTLS environment
- Implement an RRSF Network for Password synchronisation and commands
- Understand NJE security
- Understand Program Control
- Understand PassTickets
Course Content
Day 1
Unit 7.Backup and recovery of the RACF database
Lab Exercise - Backup and recovery of the RACF database
Unit 4.Command, console and SDSF security
Lab Exercise - Console, Operator and SDSF
Day 2
Unit 5.RACF support for z/OS UNIX
Lab Exercises - Z/OS UNIX
Day 3
Unit 10 -Digital certificates ( including understanding ATTLS)
Lab Exercise - Digital certificates
Unit 1 - Introduction to RRSF
Lab Exercises - RRSF
Day 4
Lab Exercises - RRSF continued
Unit 6.Controlling network job entry
Unit 8.Program control
Unit 9.PassTickets