Cursusbeschrijving: Exploiting the Advanced Features of RACF

This course teaches you how to implement some of the advanced facilities available in RACF. Through a combination of classroom lecture and hands-on lab exercises, you will learn how to establish an RRSF environment, including using 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 sysplex data sharing and sysplex communication, RACF support for z/OS UNIX, DB2 security using RACF, Network Job Entry (NJE) security, operator commands, program control and backup, recovery of the RACF database, PassTickets, and digital certificates.

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Roadmaps:

• Security Skills
• Security Skills

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Security administrators, and z/OS system programmers who need to acquire an advanced knowledge of z/OS Security Server RACF and who are responsible for designing, implementing, or administering RACF.

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You should:

• be familiar with the facilities of RACF (as they are explained in the Effective RACF Administration (BE87) course), and
• have a good knowledge of the z/OS architecture

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• establish a RRSF environment to keep multiple RACF data bases synchronized
• develop a plan to backup and recover the RACF database
• effectively apply advanced techniques to implement RACF program control
• implement security for z/OS UNIX System Services
• set up RACF to use the Coupling Facility in a Parallel Sysplex
• explore the security available for z/OS operator commands
• describe the security issues with NJE
• understand how RACF can be used to replace native DB2 security
• explain the role of RACF for PassTicket generation
• understand how RACF supports digital certificates

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RACF Remote Sharing Facility

• implement RRSF to improve performance, availability, system management, and usability
• set up a RRSF network, and provide password synchronization

RACF Sysplex Support

• describe the steps necessary to implement RACF Sysplex Communication and RACF Sysplex Data Sharing

RACF Security for DB2

• explain how the External Security Module is used to call RACF for DB2 authorization requests
• describe the RACF profiles used to control DB2 objects

Command and Console Security

• state the benefits available with the command security facilities

RACF support for z/OS UNIX (USS)

• develop a plan to implement security for z/OS USS, and control advanced UNIX applications
• set up permissions for controlling access to a file or directory including ACLs
• understand the auditing options for z/OS USS

Controlling Network Job Entry (NJE)

• manage the receipt and transmlission of jobs and SYSOUT across an NJE network

Backup and Recovery of the RACF database

• describe possible outage scenarios and recovery strategies

Program Control

• explain the functions that RACF program control provides and implement those necessary in your environemnt

PassTickets

• state the benefits of RACF secure sign-on

Digital Certifi