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  • 1.  zSecure CICS toolkit vs application program

    Posted 11/03/22 09:12 AM
    Hi Guys, 

    Is it possible to use zSecure CICS toolkit to interface with an application program to access and issue RACF commands ? 
    By the way, that application is in Cobol language and access  DB2 running  under z/OS CICS.
    The main  idea is to issue RACF commands under CICS via that application.

    Thank you 

    Jose Villela

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    Jose Villela Ribeiro Junior IBM zSecurity Consultant
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  • 2.  RE: zSecure CICS toolkit vs application program

    Posted 11/03/22 11:33 AM

    Yes,

    All the RACF commands that are available under the RTMM transaction are also available through the API. There are Cobol copybooks for the API commare mapping.



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    Guus Bonnes
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  • 3.  RE: zSecure CICS toolkit vs application program

    Posted 11/07/22 02:41 AM
    zSecure CICS Toolkit provides an API for COBOL(and other) programs running in CICS, to access RACF profile information and to modify (many but not all) profile fields.  The API uses a control block to retrieve the (old) profile field values, and to specify the (new) field values, so the (COBOL) program does not have to build a RACF command, and to save on command parsing + syntax verification.
    As long as your COBOL application does not intend to execute RACF commands, but instead updates RACF profile fields via the CICS Toolkit API, you're good.

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    Rob van Hoboken
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