
3.2 MVS/ESA
3.2.1 MVS/ESA and RACF
Figure 45. MVS/ESA and RACF
Key Points
MVS offers operating system integrity and system services upon which RACF
builds enhanced security services.
Presentation Script
The MVS operating system has many characteristics and features to provide a
secure environment, which include:
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System Integrity
MVS has supported system integrity since 1973 when IBM began to accept
APARs for MVS system integrity failures. System integrity helps ensure that
system security cannot be bypassed, and so it is vitally important to a
system. It mainly consists of the limitations of what an unauthorized
application program can accomplish. So, unauthorized ...