RACF Remote Sharing Facility over TCP/IPThe 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:
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. |
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AT-TLS policy COMMAND HAS COMPLETED communications COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY Configuration Assistant default defined DELETE digital certificates example environment HOST ADDRESS IBM Redbooks INMSG IRR.RRSF.KEYRING IRROPT75 IRROPTTP IRROPTxx file issued JOBNAME key ring Key Size keyring main system NETSTAT NODE PLEX75 SYSNAME OK RRSF SERVER OMVS OPERATIVE TARGET NODE PAGENT PARAMETER LIBRARY MEMBER password synchronization PLEX75 SYSNAME SC75 PREFIX SYS1.RACF private key PROTOCOL APPC LUNAME protocol conversion PROTOCOL TCP ADDRESS RACDCERT ID(RACF RACF address space RACF database RACF parameter library RACF REMOTE SHARING RACF SUBSYSTEM TARGET remote node REMOTE RRSF NODE REMOTE SHARING TCP ring name RRSF CERTAUTH CERT RRSF CONNECTION RRSF network RRSF SERVER CERTIFICATE self-signed certificate shown in Example shown in Figure specified SUBSYSTEM TARGET COMMAND SYSNAME ADCD TARGET NODE PLEX75 TCP definition TCP LISTENER TCP/IP stack Transport Layer Security TTLS UNIX System Services updates user ID association Verify workspace data sets WORKSPACE VOLUME BH8ST4 z/OS image