Using RACF Panels

If your organization has installed the RACF® panels, you can use them to perform security tasks. To get to the RACF panels, enter: 
ISPF
or: 
RACF (PANEL
If you enter ISPF, the ISPF primary menu appears. Choose option R for RACF.
Note:
  1. Although this is the usual way to access RACF panels, your installation may have implemented a different path. Check with your security administrator for more information.
  2. From any panel, press PF1 to get to a help screen.
You will see the following RACF menu: 
                         RACF - SERVICES OPTION MENU
OPTION ===>

SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

   1  DATA SET PROFILES

   2  GENERAL RESOURCE PROFILES
   3  GROUP PROFILES AND USER-TO-GROUP CONNECTIONS
   4  USER PROFILES AND YOUR OWN PASSWORD
   5  SYSTEM OPTIONS

   6  VM DUAL REGISTRATION
   7  VM EVENTS
   8  VM MINIDISK PROFILES
   9  VM FILE PROFILES
  10  VM DIRECTORY PROFILES

  98  TUTORIAL
  99  EXIT
From here, you can get to menus of different tasks you might need to do with RACF. These menus lead you through the panels, providing options that let you:
  • Find out what authority you have
  • Protect a minidisk, an SFS file, or an SFS directory
  • Change your password or password phrase

To get more information about a particular panel, type help on the command line or press the PF1 key.

You may need to know a panel ID for diagnosis. To display the panel ID in the upper left part of the screen, enter: 
panelid
to the right of OPTION ===>, as follows: 
                         RACF - SERVICES OPTION MENU
OPTION ===> panelid
To choose the tutorial option from the menu, enter: 
98
to the right of OPTION ===>, as follows: 
                         RACF - SERVICES OPTION MENU
OPTION ===> 98
You will see the following tutorial menu: 
TUTORIAL                        RACF Tutorial
Option ===>

         To view the following topics in sequence, press ENTER.
         For a specific topic, enter the number of your selection.

          1  About this Tutorial
          2  RACF Concepts
          3  Using RACF on MVS
          4  Using RACF on VM












      ENTER = Proceed                       PF03 = End tutorial

With this tutorial, you can learn how to use the RACF panels to perform your security tasks. Each option on the tutorial panel gives you definitions for user IDs and passwords, user and group profiles, resource profiles, authorities, and attributes.