Bah humbug, any mediocre programmer (me for instance) can write every RACF
report ever wanted. Freeware (Nigel's collection....and others) abounds.
These require some knowledge of the IRRDBU00 file and some basic DF/SORT
skills. I wrote a bunch of SAS stuff years ago but I'll changing most over
to DFSORT, exploiting SPLICE and other goodies Mr. Yeager provides.
OBTW, same comment applies for Top Secret, the extract files from that
product and RACF are remarkably similar.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Rick Fochtman
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Security Packages Percentages
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No, but there is a new mainframe security package called DEADBOLT
(http://www.jmesoftware.com).
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I haven't looked at the details yet, but based on my extensive experience
with RACF (All the way back to 1.2) and my very limited experience with ACF2
and TopSecret, I'd guess that several iterations of this new package will be
necessary before it's a really viable competitor to "The Big Three". It's
might hard to be all things to all people when it comes to security. I like
RACF the best, but even it has some drawbacks. The most obvioous drawback
that comes to mind is its mediocre reporting capabilities.
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