Effective RACF Administration (BE87G)

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1 - Security and RACF overview
• Unit 2 - Administering groups and users
• Exercise 1 - Log on to the lab system
• Exercise 2 - Defining a RACF group structure
• Exercise 3 - User administration

Day 2

• Exercise review
• Unit 2 - Administering groups and users (continued)
• Exercise 4 - Delegating security administration
• Unit 3 - Protecting z/OS data sets
• Exercise 5 - Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 1

Day 3

• Exercise 5 - Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 1 (continued)
• Exercise 6 - Protecting z/OS data sets: Part 2 Exercise review
• Unit 4 - Introduction to user administration and delegation and general resources
• Exercise 7 - Password reset granularity
• Unit 5 - RACF database, tables, and performance options

Day 4

• Unit 6 - RACF utilities and exits
• Unit 7 - RACF options
• Unit 8 - Auditing the RACF environment
• Exercise 8 - Using RACF for TSO administration (Optional)
• Exercise 9 - RACF utilities (Optional)
• Exercise 10 - RACF monitoring

Day 5

• Exercise review
• Unit 9 - Storage management and RACF
• Unit 10 - Security for JES facilities
• Unit 11 - Security classification