The Novell® Identity Manager 3.6.1 driver for RACF on mainframes (z/OS operating system) includes two parts. They are installed in separate operations.
The RACF Event Subsystem: Serves as an interface between the driver shim and RACF.
The RACF Event Subsystem must be installed on each system that shares the RACF database.
The driver shim: Provides the conduit for information transfer between eDirectory™ (through Identity Manager) and the RACF Event Subsystem.
The driver shim can be installed on an z/OS system that runs the RACF Event Subsystem, and configured to use the Java* Remote Loader; or the driver shim can be installed on a server that runs eDirectory.
The driver shim communicates with the RACF Event Subsystem through Telnet connections. Unless your network provides the level of security required to ensure the privacy of data transmitted over these Telnet connections, we recommend that you install the driver shim on an z/OS system with the RACF Event Subsystem and configure the Telnet connections to use localhost.
Before you install the Novell Identity Manager Driver for RACF on z/OS in a production environment, you should install the driver in a test environment for use in developing your full deployment plan.