Charles Mills wrote:

> Sorry for an elementary question. I've got a customer asking me and I don't 
> pretend to be a RACF expert.

This type of question is not elementary. Only by asking you will learn. Only 
wise guys ask, the rest pretents to be wise. ;-)

>Yes, I know there is a RACF list but this list is more active.

The absolute RACF gurus are hanging out there in RACF-L, but sometimes here in 
IBM-MAIN too. There are other lists for RACF and MVS too.

>I know it is possible to monitor access to a group of "traditional" MVS 
>datasets with ADDDSD FOO.BAR.** AUDIT(SUCCESS,...) ...

Above is for SUCCESSfull attempts. You can use AUDIT(ALL(READ)) so all 
attempts, successfull or not, are logged. That is if LOGOPTIONS is set as 
ALWAYS for DATASET.

>I see that it is possible to restrict access to an entire zFS filesystem with 
>RACF.

Indeed. You can even manage the ability to mount/dismount actions too.

>Is it possible to monitor access to a group or directory of zFS files? 
>Something like ADDDSD /u/foo/bar/** AUDIT(SUCCESS,...)... ?

Radoslaw kindly said you can use chaudit. Beside SMF record 80, you should 
collect SMF records 92 and perhaps others records too.

I believe when you create a zFS file, the audit flags are turned off, but I 
could be wrong.

You should review (chmod, chown, etc) all audit and access flags for all the 
folders from up the root down to the files. 

Then, you should review these RACF classes too:

DIRACC 
DIRSRCH
FSOBJ  
FSSEC  
IPCOBJ 
PROCACT
PROCESS

No profiles can be defined in these classes except FSSEC.

You can also review the audit settings of RACF users and also their OMVS 
segments too.

Hope above will help, but I'm pretty sure others will chime in with better and 
complete advice.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

Friday Joke:

What is the benefit when you've got alzheimer?

Everytime you lie tonight next to your man/wife, it is always a new person you 
meet ...

Ouch ... 

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