CA-ACF2® - Protecting General Resources
Duration
5 hours
Overview
These courses describe how CA ACF2™ is used to protect and secure the system against accidental and malicious access and damage. It instructs the student on how CA ACF2™ works and how to define users, rules and parameters, to restrict access to the system and its resources.
Audience
Application programmers, systems programmers, database administrators, security administrators, and other personnel requiring knowledge about the use of the CA ACF2™ Security Server (ACF2) on the z/OS platform.
Prerequisites
Completion of the courses "CA ACF2™ Introduction" and "CA ACF2™ Protecting Data Integrity", and knowledge of TSO, ISPF, data sets, and basic security requirements.
Objectives
- After completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify how system resources are protected
- Define resource rules
- Identify common resource classes
- Create Role Based rule sets
- Identify how resource rules are maintained by using ACF2 commands and ISPF panels
Course Content
Protecting General Resources
Basic Resource Rules
Conditional and Service Parameters
Control Statements and Parameters
Defining Infostorage Database Rules
Protecting DASD Volumes
Controlling Access to Jobs
Program Control and Protecting Commands
Maintaining General Resource Rules Using ACF2 Commands
Compile Commands
Commands to Create, Modify, and Delete
Maintaining General Resource Rules Using ISPF Panels
Create Resource Rules
List and Modify Resource Rules
Delete Resource Rules