August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
168 pages
5h 36m
English
book
RACF Remote Sharing Facility over TCP/IP
by Karan Singh, Rama Ayyar, Mike Onghena, Phil Peters, Arunkumar Ramachandran, Philippe Richard, Roland Schwahn
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© Copyright IBM Corp. 2012. All rights reserved. ix
Preface
The IBM RACF® remote sharing facility (RRSF) allows RACF to communicate with other IBM
z/OS® systems that use RACF, allowing you to maintain remote RACF databases. RRSF
support for the security administrator provides these benefits:
Administration of RACF databases from anywhere in the RRSF network
Creation of User ID associations for password and password phrase synchronization
Automatic synchronization of databases
Before to z/OS V1R13, RRSF only supported the APPC protocol. With z/OS release V1R13,
TCP/IP can be used to extend the RACF Remote Sharing Facility (RRSF) functionality to a
network of RRSF nodes capable of communicating over the TCP/IP protocol. Using TCP/IP
connections ...