z⁄VM Education - Unit 05 - Introduction to RACF

Resource Access Control Facility (RACF) for z/VM is an External Security Manager (ESM). RACF is a paid z/VM feature that can be used to maintain z/VM security and integrity by identifying and verifying users and authorizing users to access protected resources.

This introduction video presents an overview of how to setup RACF, permissions, user attributes, various options, VM events, groups and sharing user IDs.

Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 2:11 - RACF on your z/VM System 6:34 - RACF and DirMaint 8:24 - RACF/VM Installation 15:22 - Resource classes in RACF 27:58 - Permissions 33:41 - User attributes 37:17 - RACF commands 43:05 - RACF options 45:55 - VM events controlled by RACF 51:06 - Groups 53:33 - Shared User IDs

Material: Presentation - https://www.vm.ibm.com/education/roadmaps/int-racf.pdf