RACF - Resource Access Control Facility - Mainframe System

RACF is the IBM Security Management product for mainframe operating system.
RACF - Extream Security Manager(ESM).

Profile - RACF stores all this information about users groups and resources in profiles. A profile is a record of RACF information that has is a record of RACF inforamtion that has been defined by the security administratior.

There are 3 profiles.

1) User Profile

An individual member identified by his unique id and verified using a password.

2) Group Profile

A group is a collection of RACF users who share common access requirement to protected resources or who have similar attributes within the system.

3) Resource Profile

Any information stored on a computer system such as datasets, Terminals, volumes etc.

There are two type of Resouce Profile

a) Dataset Profiles
b) General Resource Profiles