SSA - The Scheduler for z/OS

Simplify TSO RACF administartion by scheduling automatic commands.

Smart Security Administrator is the easiest RACF administrative package available, SSA goes one step further by enhancing the user experience compared to other products. SSA is an extremely effective merging of Ease-of-Use and Power. A smarter and more sophisticated product means administrators and auditors alike can easily become acclimated and productive at new levels. SSA will assist the security administrator, security coordinator or auditor to effectively maintain and audit RACF information with concise reporting, command generation and ease of use.

SSA is engineered to save the administrator at least 30% of their time by eliminating or expediting those tasks that can be arduous or lengthily in time. With SSA, you are freed up to pursue those items that you may have put aside because of time restraints. SSA will make you a better administrator, coordinator or auditor.

The SSA Suite:

SSA    Access Simulator    CICS Direct Administration    TSO Direct Administration    The Scheduler

The Scheduler is an optional component for SSA is a scheduling facility would prove useful as a request system interface that handles decentralized security for administrators, coordinators, and auditors.

Security administrators need an automated facility to submit requests and update profiles at designated intervals. Because of security implications associated with typical Schedulers, administrator are obligated to monitor requests and updates. Security administrators also need a facility to manually enter and submit requests and updates. A scheduling facility would prove useful as a request system interface that handles decentralized security for administrators, coordinators, and auditors.

The Scheduler meets these requirements and more. Below is a list of its capabilities and their applications:

• The Scheduler is a automated system with a started task at the core of the facility. The task verifies and submits requests entered by all users and administrators. Thetask automatically scans and submits verified scheduled requests.
   
• The Scheduler started task can submit requests with its own authority, or the authority of the requester. Requests to run with the authority of the task must receive the proper approval.
   
• Submitting requests is controlled by RACF. The ability to approve, view, and deny those requests is also controlled by RACF.
   
• Users can enter requests that are beyond their ‘regular’ RACF authority to run under the tasks authority which can be approved or denied by an administrator. This allows the administrator to decentralize functions without giving the user the actual authority that might have been necessary to perform the request.
   
• The Scheduler submits any form of JCL or TSO command, therefore, you can schedule non-RACF related events as well.