Mainframe Security Automation with Rexx: A Practitioner's Guide to Scripting RACF, TSS, and ACF2 for Audits and Compliance

By Mark Dwayne

Manual mainframe audits are slow, repetitive, and simply cannot scale for modern compliance. When auditors demand proof of SOX, PCI, or NIST compliance now, running checklists by hand isn't just inefficient-it's a critical business risk. You need to automate.
Mainframe Security Automation with Rexx is the definitive, hands-on guide to solving this exact problem. Written for the professional z/OS Security Administrator and Auditor, this book provides the practical scripts and frameworks to automate security tasks across RACF, ACF2, and TSS. Learn to use Rexx as the "glue" language to build a reliable, auditable, and continuous compliance system from the ground up.
This is not a theoretical programming book. This is a library of practical, day-one solutions for your most urgent security tasks.
Inside, you will master the complete automation workflow:
Cover All Platforms: Get parallel, practical automation scripts for RACF, ACF2, and Top Secret (TSS)-all in one book.
Master the Core Engine: Learn to "trap" TSO command output with OUTTRAP, the key to parsing and analyzing any security data.
Get Production-Ready Tools: Build and deploy a "Bulk User Provisioning" script and a "High-Risk Dataset Finder" (e.g., UACC(ALTER)).
Generate "Audit-Ready" Reports: Automatically create formatted compliance reports (CSV, JSON) to satisfy auditors and management.
Build Interactive Tools: Go beyond batch scripts and learn to build ISPF panels, empowering your entire security team .
Proactively Monitor: Implement advanced tools for reading SYSLOG and parsing SMF security records (Types 80, 81, 83) for real-time alerts.

Stop reacting to audit findings. Start building a proactive, automated security program.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2BBG3QB
• ISBN13: 9798274413763
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"