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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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I respectfully disagree. The contents of the database can be reported,
as you say, by re-formatting the IRRDBU00 output. That doesn't help much
when senior management calls you at ooooo-dark-thirty in the morning and
wants to know who's been updating a particular control PDS since 3:00 PM
yesterday. Or who invoked a particularly destructive CICS transaction
and clobbered several hundred customer-related account records.
Reporting database contents is wonderful, especially when auditors show
up, but those audit trails in SMF are also important, especially to a
fiduciary and the inability to generate reports from those audit trails
might be a career-limiting condition.
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