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Similar requirement with CCD for upgrade jobs. Financial customers want to follow the principle of 4-eyes checking before changes are allowed to progress to production servers.
A variation on this is the ability (via LDAP groups) to limit user's functionality.
We use this within C:D Windows already so that a user typically only has 'select stats' type access and cannot change anything by default. With the correct LDAP (ie. Active Directory) group membership, they can have admin rights. Users can be added/remove from AD roles to limit what they can do. This is enabled within C:D Windows using group functional authorities which relate to AD groups.
To complete this, the groups that users are added to have 'timed access' where they are added to an AD group for a set amount of time then removed again. This access has to be independently approved and ties in with our Change Management solution.
For C:D z/OS, we have similar functionality; users are members of RACF groups which are checked by the security exit. Again, the groups are centrally administered.
It's not perfect; once a user has admin rights, they can do anything but it's huge improvement on what's available natively in ICC.
Change management procedures can vary greatly from one company to another. I believe change management standards regarding the use of Control Center to change items needs to developed/managed "in house".