If I remember correctly(it has been a while) Top Secret has the same functionality as ACF2 - very easy to clone users.
On 17 January 2014 18:34, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:56:29 +0100, R.S. <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >Well, I grew up with RACF with no add-on product installed. Since time I > >mastered RACF I had no problem with lack of the option above. Note: in > >the past I frequently had requests like " define 20 users like JSMITH > >and 30 users like KOWALSKI" , etc. > > Most of us have. One of my consulting gigs many years ago was > really a RACF admin and I created model definitions for all the > different job functions so after I left all someone had to due was > basically go into a PDS member for the job function and change > xxxxxxx to the userid. I also created some cleanup programs in > REXX. I think one is on my web site / CBT (for deleting unused > userids and cleaning up their data sets). > > However in a huge shop this is more of a problem. For example one of my > clients adds / changes / deletes hundreds or maybe even thousands of > userids > in a week. But they provision userids using software that interfaces with > RACF (they are in the process from switching to a new product for this > as well). Usually sysprog IDs are defined manually by the RACF team. > > I'm just surprised that RACF has never added a feature for this yet after > all these years. Maybe Walt can comment if he is lurking. > > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS > ITIL v3 Foundation Certified > mailto:[email protected] > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
