by Robert Tripp | Jul 25, 2006 | Articles, Banking Product Engines, General
RACF was helping tidy up the security processes on the mainframe where many important bank processes were carried out.Unfortunately most banks were buying and building lots of systems on other IT infrastructure such as AS/400, UNIX, Microsoft NT. This is illustrated...
by Robert Tripp | Jul 25, 2006 | Articles, Banking Product Engines
IBM spotting a market opportunity produced a piece of software called RACF (Resource Access Control Facility) which tried to centralise the security processing. This is illustrated in the diagram below. The key ideas are that there is a separate database of users,...
by Robert Tripp | Jul 24, 2006 | Articles, Banking Product Engines, General
The diagram below illustrates the nature of banking systems at this time. Basically the only technology used by most banks was the IBM mainframe hardware. Any software required to do something was written by the bank. Thus the bank wrote the business logic (“if...
