Group administration

For the ADMN_ADD_GROUP, ADMN_DEL_GROUP, ADMN_ALT_GROUP, and ADMN_LST_GROUP function codes, the mapping associated with the function-specific parameter list is mapped as follows:

Table 1. Parameter list format for group administration. This is a table with three columns to describe the offset, length, and description of the parameter list format for group administration.
Offset Length Description
0 1 Length of the Group Name
1 8 Uppercase RACF® Group Name
9 1

A series of option flags for this request:

  • '10000000'b – ADMN_FLAGS_NORUN – If set, then do not execute the command which is constructed by the r_admin service.
  • '01000000'b – ADMN_FLAGS_RETCMD – If set, return the text of the command which is constructed by the r_admin service.
  • '00100000'b – ADMN_FLAGS_ADDQUOT – If set, automatically add quotes around fields which are quotable. Also verify that fields which are not quotable do not contain certain illegal characters.

The other bits are reserved and should have value of 0.
10 2 Output offset to the segment or field entry in error in relation to the start of the Parm_list. Only applied to ADMN_ADD_GROUP and ADMN_ALT_GROUP requests when an "invalid 'request" error is returned to the caller.
12 2 Number of RACF profile segments
14 * Start of first segment entry

For ADMN_DEL_GROUP, no segment data is expected. The number of segments should be zero. If non-zero, any segment data present is ignored.

See Segment and field entry mappings for segment and field entry information.

The output from these functions is either command output or error messages. See Command output message block mapping for the output format.

For tables defining the field names and their usage, see Group administration.