Business benefits
| Features | Advantages | Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Automates and simplifies routine administrative tasks | Tivoli zSecure Admin offers robust, non-intrusive security capabilities designed to simplify managing mainframe security. For example, you can automate recurring, time-consuming security tasks such as managing passwords, password phrases, and copying or removing user and group IDs including all their references. You can also perform these for multiple users or groups at one time. | Simplifies complex into one-step actions that you can perform without extensive knowledge of RACF and with only minimal training. You can execute queries in seconds, and implement mass changes with little administration effort. |
| Identifies and analyzes problems to minimize threats | Tivoli zSecure Admin helps you quickly identify problems in RACF, such as missing or inconsistent definitions so you can fix or prevent mistakes before they become a threat to security and compliance. | Reduces the chance of breaches, lowers the cost of administration and enables the business to do continue uninterrupted with security issues. |
| Merges databases quickly and efficiently | Tivoli zSecure Admin simplifies consolidation efforts by enabling you to: Efficiently merge security rules from different databases; Copy or move users, groups, resources, applications or whole databases between systems; Rename IDs in the same database. | Provides essential flexibility for database management in an ever-changing business climate in which frequent mergers and acquisitions are common. |
| Displays data from the active (live) RACF database | Administrators can view current information, including recent changes by other administrators. | Enables the administrator to immediately verify the effect of the changes wait for a refresh of the extract file or unloaded RACF database. |
| RACF database cleanup | The Access Monitor function uses actual RACF database usage information to analyze profiles, permits and connects and automatically generate the commands to clean up the database. Administrators can review commands to confirm that clean up actions do not affect definitions that must be retained. | Increase the integrity of system security by removing unused or obsolete profiles, permits, and connects.Reduce manual effort needed in processes for assuring compliance. |
| RACF usage reporting using the Access Monitor function | Report on actual usage of profiles and authorizations and relate that information to the current profile and authorizations defined in the current RACF database. | Understand how profiles and authorizations are used in production. Identify unused or obsolete profiles and authorizations on ACL lists. Determine how RACF database changes affect users before implementing them. |
| Creates a mirrored copy of the RACF database (offline) | RACF administrators can check and verify their configuration changes in the offline copy, without affecting the production database. | Provide the ability to test changes and review the results before implementing them. This reduces the risks of introducing errors into the production database, human error, and possible outages of security. |
| Integrates smoothly with IBM Tivoli zSecure Audit | While Tivoli zSecure Audit enables you to efficiently measure and verify the effectiveness of your mainframe security and security policies, Tivoli zSecure Admin can help you take the appropriate steps to remediate problems in an efficient, cost-effective manner. | Provides end-to-end monitoring and remediation of security and security life-cycle management for governance and compliance. |
| Stores non-RACF data to reduce organizational costs | Stores non-security information (such as telephone numbers, accounting codes and e-mail addresses) in the RACF database; Supports both the installation data fields and USR DATA; Enables you to view and update this information; Keeps the information safe and confidential with access controls. | Makes security and compliance management easier. For example, you may want to match human resources information with user profiles. |
Tivoli zSecure Admin, a component of the IBM Tivoli zSecure suite, is a user-friendly layer on top of RACF that enables security administration, user management, and compliance on the mainframe.
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