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The following is a snapshot of a page from Software Europe’s website c. August 2000, for historical interest only.
See Software Europe, IBM (formerly Consul), and EKC for details of their current products.

ACF2 Administration Solutions

| ACF2 Administration | RACF Administration |
| OS/390 Auditing & Event Monitoring | Open Systems Event Monitoring |
| Other OS/390 Security | Security Matters |

ACF2 administration solutions on this page:

| ETF/A | E-HelpDesk |

ETF/A

ETF/A is a powerful tool that provides the information security professional with a wealth of invaluable information and capabilities.

• Reduces outage caused by improper rule modification
• Eliminates down time through real-time recovery of LIDs, DSN, and RES rules.
• Automates ACF2 rule maintenance
• Streamlines & cleans-up the ACF2 VSAM databases
• Removes potential exposures caused by old rules
• Controls access to special privileges such as NON-CNCL for emergency situations
• Permits a single logonid (LID) multiple UID strings
• Monitors and tracks rule line usage

For more information, see EKC's Web page

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E-HelpDesk

E-HelpDesk is used when a user forgets his current password. E-Help Desk is a VTAM application that will verify any of the last four passwords currently being stored in CA-ACF2, as well as any other installation-definable piece of information from the user record such as SSN, birth date, mother's maiden name, etc. If all pieces of information entered by the user are correct, E-HelpDesk will prompt the user to enter a new password. That password is also synchronized across all nodes.

All sign-on and password change activity is logged to SMF using standard CA-ACF2 facilities. There is no need for further logging.

For more information, see EKC's Web page

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