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How to Implement External Security with RACF

As a security administrator in your mainframe environment, your responsibilities include implementing security in CA OPS/MVS with RACF. You perform the following tasks, which appear in the recommended order. You can perform them in any sequence.

• Customize resource classes with RACF
• Define groups based on function for validation
• Define groups automatically with DEFSAF
• Generate the SAF resources with RACF
• Batch execute External Security Manager commands to create the owner and profiles
• Create access permissions with RACF
• Add user access to product resources
• Authorize user IDs to use a specific command