During the writing of the first edition of the zSecure RedBook (first edition 2008) SG24-7633-01 we started with a standard z/OS image from the IBM Raleigh teams, who maintain and build the images for the ADCD systems also, and documented all steps necessary to bring the system up to a reasonable definition of modern RACF usage. We handed this information to the build team, and I offered to personally assist them in changing their processes to make these changes part of the standard build. At the time I was also responsible for delivering z/OS based education for the IBM Academic Initiative also using the same z/OS images as the base for their systems. It was not a secure system by a long shot, and I understand nothing much has changed in that respect since we tried to help. There was no interest in doing this from the Raleigh teams and nothing came from these efforts.
Lennie, you know me, I would be delighted to see the documented procedures you've described be distributed and available for others to benefit from. In a sense, that was one of my main motivations behind creating the zSecure RedBook in the form it took, to help people build better and more readily maintainable RACF implementations. Cheers - Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
