Setting RACF Options

This section provides a roadmap of the system-wide options that you should consider setting when RACF® is first installed.

Table 1. Recommended SETROPTS options at RACF installation
Perform this task Using this SETROPTS operand
Allowing Mixed-Case Passwords PASSWORD(MIXEDCASE) operand
Allowing Special Characters in Passwords PASSWORD(SPECIALCHARS) operand
Password Syntax Rules PASSWORD(RULEn) operand
Setting the Maximum and Minimum Change Interval PASSWORD(INTERVAL) operand
Extended Password Processing PASSWORD(WARNING/HISTORY/REVOKE) operand
Encryption of RACF User Passwords PASSWORD(ALGORITHM) operand
Revoking Unused User IDs INACTIVE operand
List-of-Groups Authority Checking GRPLIST operand
Setting the RVARY Passwords RVARYPW(SWITCH/STATUS) operand
Restricting the Creation of General Resource Profiles (GENERICOWNER Option) GENERICOWNER operand
Activating and Deactivating General Resource Classes CLASSACT operand
Generic Profile Checking of General Resources GENERIC operand
Using SETROPTS STATISTICS for Statistics Collection STATISTICS operand
Collecting LOGON Statistics INITSTATS operand