RACF Remote Sharing Facility over TCP/IP

The IBM RACF® remote sharing facility (RRSF) allows RACF to communicate with other IBM z/OS® systems that use RACF, allowing you to maintain remote RACF databases. RRSF support for the security administrator provides these benefits:

• Administration of RACF databases from anywhere in the RRSF network
  
• Creation of User ID associations for password and password phrase synchronization
  
• Automatic synchronization of databases
  

Before to z/OS V1R13, RRSF only supported the APPC protocol. With z/OS release V1R13, TCP/IP can be used to extend the RACF Remote Sharing Facility (RRSF) functionality to a network of RRSF nodes capable of communicating over the TCP/IP protocol. Using TCP/IP connections for RRSF nodes provides advantages over APPC such as improved security, including stronger encryption levels.

This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses the issue of implementing a new RRSF network using the TCP/IP protocol. It covers planning, implementation, and operational issues for deploying RRSF using TCP/IP. In addition, It addresses migration of an RRSF network from APPC to TCP/IP, including in-depth examples of the migration process.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Planning
Chapter 3. Configuring RRSF for TCP/IP
Chapter 4. Converting APPC connections to TCP connections
Chapter 5. Operations

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Publish Date
30 August 2012

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Author(s)

• Karan Singh
• Rama Ayyar
• Mike Onghena
• Phil Peters
• Arunkumar Ramachandran
• Philippe Richard
• Roland Schwahn

ISBN-10
0738437050

ISBN-13
9780738437057

IBM Form Number
SG24-8041-00

Number of pages
168