Posts Tagged as ‘racf’

February 9, 2009

CICS Access to RACF, Part 2

I admit that I’m a little overdue to post this follow-up to my post about accessing RACF info from a COBOL program in CICS. But when I posted it, I had no idea that was going to be the single most viewed entry on my blog site. So I’ve finally had enough people asking about [...]

December 1, 2008

CICS Access to RACF

CICS doesn’t supply much  access directly to RACF info via the API. But there is a supported way to obtain a lot of RACF information about the current user. And it can be done in plain ol’ COBOL.
EXEC CICS ADDRESS ACEE will provide access to the RACF ACEE control block. (ACEE stands for Access Control [...]