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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Original Message:
Sent: Thu November 03, 2022 09:12 AM
From: Jose Villela Ribeiro Junior
Subject: zSecure CICS toolkit vs application program
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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