zSecure RACF Offline & Access Monitor Overview

This zSecure course is designed, written and presented by RACF & zSecure specialists. This overview course covers both RACF Offline and Access Monitor. The course highlights how each component is used and how they can be used in conjunction with each other.

This course is only available for one-company presentations live over the Internet, via the Virtual Classroom Environment service.

What you will learn

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

describe how the two components (when used to test and simulate RACF changes before implementing them in a production RACF database
describe how the two components (when used in conjunction) can be used to c• Clean up a RACF database to address problems such as excessive access or unused definitions.

Who Should Attend

The course is suitable for RACF Administrators who use zSecure for performing RACF Administration and RACF database clean-up tasks.

Prerequisites

Attendees should have thorough working knowledge of RACF & zSecure or have attended the RSM courses RACF Administration and Auditing and zSecure Basic Admin & Reporting.

Duration

1 day

Fee (per attendee)

£875 (ex VAT)

This includes free online 24/7 access to course notes.

Hard copy course notes are available on request from rsmshop@rsm.co.uk

at £50.00 plus carriage per set.

Course Code

ZSRM

RACF Offline Overview

Overview of RACF-Offline; product configuration including protecting RACF-Offline from unauthorised use; how to create an Offline database; running supported RACF commands against an Offline database; foreground and batch support for RACF-Offline; using zSecure Admin with an Offline database; switching Offline databases; problem resolution; use cases.

Access Monitor Overview

Overview of Access Monitor; who should use it; how Access Monitor works; consolidation of Access Monitor records; reporting functions and features; simulating changes to see if RACF commands will degrade security or cause a denial of service; report on permit, group connect and profile usage; report on usage of members, such as CICSTRN / GCICSTRN protected resources; report on Global Access Table (GAT) usage; clean-up functions and features; report on userid usage including verification methods used.

Database Clean-up Using RACF Offline & Access Monitor

Run RACF commands from clean-up actions, using a RACF-Offline database; compare these changes against Access Monitor records using the built-in simulation features to determine impact.