Installing CA Disk Under IBM RACF

Regardless of whether you intend to install the CA Disk Security Interface for RACF, there are several items that you must consider for CA Disk to run effectively on a system using IBM's RACF.

Set up your production CA Disk runs with sufficient access to process all data sets managed by CA Disk.
The simplest way to accomplish this is to run these CA Disk tasks with a user ID that has the OPERATIONS attribute. Other alternatives are also possible.
Your individual users can process (archive, restore, migrate, and so on) those data sets for which they are authorized.
RACF does not give different DASDVOL authorities based on the program name being run. With the exception of the TSO command processors, CA Disk always runs as the program name ADSMI002.
If you plan to run the DSCB Update function with a user ID that has the OPERATIONS attribute, or do not plan to run the utility, you do not need to worry about RACF DASDVOL rules.

This section contains the following topics:

Installing the RACF Security Interface