Who should attend
People who are new to z/OS and RACF and responsible for security administration using the RACF element of the z/OS Security Server.
Students who need to implement some of the more advanced features of RACF may want to attend one or more of the following courses:
- Effective RACF Administration (BE87/H3927)
- Implementing RACF Security for CICS (ES84/ES840)
- Exploiting the Advanced Features of RACF (ES88/ES88A)
Prerequisites
This course requires very little familiarity with the facilities of the z/OS system. The first day of the course presents the background material needed to proceed.
Course Objectives
- Understand the basic features and concepts of zSeries architecture and of the z/OS operating system as they relate to security administration
- Describe the allocation process for data sets in the z/OS environment
- Identify the security requirements of a system
- Use the basic facilities and features of RACF
- Define users to RACF
- Set up a RACF group structure
- Use RACF to protect resources
- Select a base set of options to tailor RACF
Course Content
Review of z/Architecture, and z/OS
- An introduction to TSO/E and ISPF/PDF
- An introduction to z/OS data sets
- Batch processing
- Security and RACF overview
- Administering groups and users
- Protecting z/OS data sets
- Introduction to general resources
- RACF options
- Other administrative features and facilities
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