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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories RACF
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 6, 2018

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Logon-ability with a Business Role

Definition of a Member-Class, the profiles are the name of the Business-Role, the members are group-names that represent different access-rights.
Example:
Profile: RACF-Systemadministrator
Member:
#TSOBASE Group for TSO-Basic-Rights
#SDSF001 Group for Standard-SDSF-Rights
#RACF001 Group for RACF-Database-Rights

When logging on, the ACEE of the authorized user is enhanced with all groups of the member-list.

The activation of Role-Access-Rights should be controlled by a general SETR-parameter.

Allow Logon with Business-Roles:
- Assign a 8-Byte unique shortname in the application-data-field of the role-profile.
- Use the shortname instead of the groupname in the logon-process.

Implement an additional attribute for the userid (individual for userids, because technical userid do not logon with roles):
- Userid can logon with a Business-Role
- Userid can only logon with a Business-Role
- In addition with the restricted attribute the userid then has only the rights of the groups listed in the memberlist of his role.

It would be nice, if attributes like special, auditor or operations can be includes in roles.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 29, 2023
    This item is a valid requirement but unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan. If this requirement is high value, please re-open it, or open a new requirement.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 8, 2018

    Thank you for the response. We understand that LOGONBY is not a good match for your requirement.
    We accept this as an uncommitted candidate. The method of implementation is not yet determined.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 18, 2018

    Sorry, but an equivalent function of LOGONBY would not solve my problem, because I don't want different userids for one person. When logging on with different roles, the person has only a single userid and should have different sets of access-rights.
    My proposal is a mixture of NOGRPLIST-functionality with a defined list of groups.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 18, 2018

    Sorry, but an equivalent function of LOGONBY would not solve my problem, because I don't want different userids for one person. When logging on with different roles, the person has only a single userid and should have different sets of access-rights.
    My proposal is a mixture of NOGRPLIST-functionality with a defined list of groups.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 16, 2018

    Thank you for submitting this requirement. Your propose solution is interesting.
    We wonder however, would the LOGONBY capability, if implement on z/OS satisfy your requirement?
    LOGONBY is the SURROGATE function offered with z/VM RACF that allows a user to logon as another with that other user's authorities.
    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSB27U_6.4.0/com.ibm.zvm.v640.icha7/secadm.htm

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