CA-ACF2® - Protecting System Access
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 CA-ACF2 Introduction course and knowledge of the use of TSO, ISPF, data sets, and basic security issues
Objectives
- After completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe the structure of a logonid record
- Define logonid records used to protect system access
- Identify and define special and privileged users
- Enter ACF2 operator commands to modify logonid definitions
Course Content
CA-ACF2 Logonid Database Record Fields
The Logonid Database
Logonid Database Record Fields
Defining Users to CA-ACF2
Inserting Logonids
Changing Password Fields
Deleting Logonids
Changing Logonid Definitions
The Change Command
ACF2 ISPF Panels
Defining Special and Privileged Logonids
Special Maintenance Privileges
Special Batch Privileges
Special Access Privileges