Obtaining CICS-related data for a user

CICS® obtains CICS-related data from the RACF® profile by calling RACF when a 3270 user signs on to CICS. CICS obtains the same information for the CICS default user ID at CICS initialization.

CICS obtains the user information in the following order:
  1. If the CICS segment or the LANGUAGE segment data is present for the signed on user, RACF returns this data to CICS.
  2. If none of the segments are available, CICS uses the information of the default user, which is defined during system initialization.
  3. If none of the previous information is available, the following default values are used:
    • National language from the NATLANG system initialization parameter
    • OPCLASS=1
    • OPIDENT=''
    • OPPRTY=0
    • TIMEOUT=0