IBM OS/390 manual Entity, Gid, File, Hfs, Pspi

E

group

authority

.

An

authority

specifying

which

functions a user can perform in a group. The grou

entity .

A

user,

group,

or

resource

(for

authorities are USE, CREATE, CONNECT, and

JOIN.

example,

a

DASD

data

set) that

is

defined

to

RACF.

group

identifier

(GID) .

(1) In

OpenEdition

MVS,

a

EXTRACT

request

unique

number

assigned

to

a

group

of

related

user

.

The

issuing

of

the

RACROUTE The

GID

can

often

be

substituted

in

commands

that

macro

with

REQUEST=EXTRACT

specified.

An

take a group name as an

argument.

(2) A

EXTRACT request retrieves or replaces certainnon-negative integer,

which

can

be

contained

in

an

specified

fields

from

a

RACF

profile

or

encodes certain

is used

to

identify

a

group

clear-text (readable)

data.

The

EXTRACT

object

of

gidtypet,hat

request

replaces

the

RACXTRT

function.

system users. Each system user is a member of a

least one group. When the identity of a group is

F

associated

with

a

process, a group ID value

is

to

as

a

real group

ID,

an

effective

group

ID,

(optional)

supplementary

group

IDs,

or

an (optional)

FASTAUTH

request

.

The

issuing

of

the

saved set-group-ID.

RACROUTE

macro

with

REQUEST=FASTAUTH

specified.

The

group

profile

.

A

profile

that

defines

a

group.

The

primary

function

of

a

FASTAUTH

request

is

to

a

check

the

group

name,

user's

authorization

to

a

RACF-protected

information in the profile includes

resource or

profile owner, and users in the group.

function. A FASTAUTH request uses only in-storage

profiles

for

faster

performance.

The

FASTAUTH

request

programming

interface.

replaces the FRACHECK function. See also

GUPI

.

Seegeneral-use

authorization

checking.

H

G

HFS

.

Seehierarchical

file. system

general

resource

.

Any

system

resource,

other

than

an

file

system

(HFS) .

Information

is

MVS

data

set,

that

is

defined

in

the

hierarchical

class

descriptor

table

(CDT).

General

resources

are

DASD

organized in a tree-like structure of directories.

volumes,

directories.

directory can contain files or other

tape volumes, load modules, terminals, IMS and CICS

transactions,

and

installation-defined

resource

classes.

general

resource

profile

.

A

profile

that

I

provides

RACF

protection

for

one

or

more

general

resources.

Seeinventory

control

.block

ICB .

The information in the profile can include the general

resource

profile

name,

profile

owner,

universal

access

block

(ICB)

.

The

first

block

in

a

authority,

access

list,

and

other

data.

inventory

control

RACF

database.

The

ICB

contains

a

general

descript

general-use programming interface (GUPI)

.

An

of

the

database.

interface that IBM makes available for use in

customer-written programs with few restrictionsK

and

that

does

not

require

knowledge

of

the

detailed

design

or

kernel

.

(1) In

OpenEdition

MVS, the

part

of

an

implementation of the IBM software product. See also

product-sensitive

programming

interface.

(PSPI)

operating

system

that contains

programs

for

such

ta

as

I/O,

management,

and control of hardware and th

generic

profile

.

A

resource

profile

that

can

provischedeuling

of

user

tasks.

(2) The

part

of

the

sys

RACF protection for one or more resources. Thethat is an interface with

the

hardware

and

provi

resources

protected by a generic profile

serviceshavesimilarfor other

system

layers

such

as

system

names

and

identical security requirements. Forfile system support,

and

device

drivers.

(3) The

p

example,

a

generic data-set profile can protectanoperatingone or system

that performs basic functions s

more

data

sets.

as

allocating

hardware

resources.

(4) A

program

that

GID .

Seegroup

identifier.

can

run

under

different

operating

system

environments

See

alsoshell. (5) A

part

of

a

program

that

must

be

group

central storage in order to load other parts of

.

A

collection

of

RACF-defined users

who

can

program.

share

access

authorities

for

protected

resources.

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