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Status Under review
Workspace Db2 for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 19, 2024

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Db2 native and RACF security consistency requirement

This is especially important for shops like ours where for years DB2 native security and migrate to RACF security to be complaint with security audit and policies, and also new mainframe applications standards. There is multiple areas where currently the native db2 security behavior is different from RACF security behavior with the same authorizations being granted/permitted to authID executing process. For instance, DROP TABLESPACE does not honour implicit ownership authorizations and many more.

We understand there are some areas where this is not possible directly and might require a bit of coding, and in some areas it is just not coded the same for unknown reasons.

The result of this is that it is extremly difficult to complete the migration of the big, complex, aged environment and not getting into any security issues during the process. It must be stressed out, that such migration is online process in live system so consistency of the definitions in DB2 and RACF is vital to avoid issues.

The best solution here is firstly to make sure those 2 are consistent, and we would also see a zparm switch where the customer can decide if they want to use RACF that is the exact copy of the DB2 native behavior, or use currently coded inconsistent way should they consider it "better" functionally. For instance zparm DB2_RACF_SECURITY with values allowed NATIVE (meaning consistent) and RACF (whatever is different with RACF).

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  • Guest
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    |     Jan 19, 2024

    One of the worst inconsistencies today is where false ICH408I messages are given but the actual operation completes successfully .... How to explain this to an auditor I do not know.

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