Group Ownership of Profiles

You can assign a RACF® group as the owner of a user profile, group profile, data set profile, minidisk profile, or any other general resource profile. In this way, profile ownership can remain constant, regardless of how often users change jobs in your organization.

Any user connected to the owning group who has the group-SPECIAL attribute will have the authority of SPECIAL for all profiles owned by the group (see User Attributes) and will have the ability to perform all owner functions for the group.

You can assign any group to be the owner of a profile. (A group profile must be owned by a user or by its superior group.) An owning group does not need to be a group to which a user (represented by the profile) is connected. Being able to assign any group as an owner allows you flexibility in defining an authority structure. For example, you could establish one group for the sole purpose of owning user profiles, and give a group administrator the group-SPECIAL and CLAUTH (for the USER class) attributes in that group.