The following topics identify what functions RACF® provides and the information that you should provide to your security administrator to activate those functions. This topic provides information about the following concepts and tasks:

• Understanding Networking Profiles explains how the values you select for the RACF NODES profile determines what type of work and which users you want validated.
• Authorizing Jobs explains how you can use RACF to validate inbound jobs from other nodes in a network.
• Authorizing SYSOUT explains how you can use RACF to validate inbound job output (SYSOUT) from other nodes in a network.
• Translating Security Information explains how RACF can be used to replace inbound userids, groupids, or security labels with locally-defined values.
• Validating Work Based on the Submitter explains how RACF can be used to validate inbound work using the submitter's security information instead of the owner's security information.
• Understanding Default Userids describes how JES2 handles security information for work from incompatible nodes and explains how JES2 handles security information belonging to store-and-forward work. This topic also describes how you can use RACF to manipulate default security information.
• How JES2 Propagates Security Information explains where JES2 obtains missing security information for NJE work.
• Defining Nodes as Local Input Sources explains how you can use RACF to treat work from another node as if the work originated at the home node.