Security-Enhancing Products
- Resource Access Control Facility (RACF®)
for z/VM: RACF is offered as an optional feature of z/VM. RACF can:
- Help your installation implement its security policy
- Identify and authenticate each user
- Control each user's access to sensitive data
- Log and report events that are relevant to the system's security
For more information, see z/VM: RACF Security Server General User's Guide.
- Directory Maintenance Facility (DirMaint)
DirMaint is offered as an optional feature of z/VM. DirMaint provides a safe, efficient, and interactive way to maintain the z/VM user directory. You can manage the directory with DirMaint through the use of its commands. Thus, with DirMaint, you avert errors that are often made during direct updating of the directory source file. You can also use DirMaint to audit security of relevant tasks that it performs.
For more information, see z/VM: Directory Maintenance Facility Tailoring and Administration Guide.
- Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF) for VM
ISPF is an IBM licensed program that manages interactive applications and provides services to them. It does this by controlling the interactions of a dialog. In z/VM, it can be used to manage DirMaint and RACF dialogs.