On https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=zos-what-is-saf , IBM says:
> System authorization facility or SAF is an interface defined by MVS™ that > enables programs to use system authorization services to control access to > resources, such as data sets and MVS commands. SAF either processes > security authorization requests directly or works with RACF®, or other > security product, to process them. Someone on r/mainframe asks what SAF does without an ESM. I'm thinking "not much", but the last sentence above sort of suggests otherwise--unless "SAF either processes security authorization requests directly" means "returns RC=0 in all cases", in which case it would be accurate but IMHO overly vague. Thoughts? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
