ETF/A for ACF2– Administration

ETF/A is designed to increase productivity and to assist in boosting the efficiency of your CA-ACF2 security administration. It is a tool comprised of a series of TSO/ISPF panels, functions, and batch programs, which are intended to enhance, not replace, the basic facilities, services, and features of ACF2.

ETF/A can be utilised to recover rules and logon ids, model user access rules, test rules prior to moving them into a production environment, grant temporary emergency access, identify unused rule lines, manage multiple UIDs for users, and much much more!

Product Benefits

• Reduces outage caused by improper rule modification
• Eliminates down time through real-time recovery
• Automates ACF2 rule maintenance
• Streamlines & cleans-up the ACF2 VSAM databases
• Removes potential exposures caused by old rules
• Controls access to special privileges
• Permits a single Logon id dual UID strings and a Firecall Facility
• SAF controlled dynamic ISPF Menu Option provides control of administrative functions
• Rule optimisation feature provides a way to manage large NEXTKEY chains.