The started procedures table (ICHRIN03) provides a way for your installation to assign RACF® identities to your started procedures. It does not allow you to assign RACF identities to jobs; for that you must use the STARTED class.

RACF allows the started procedures table to contain a generic entry, indicated by an asterisk (*) in the procedure-name field. When searching the table for a procedure-name match, if RACF finds a procedure name of “*” as the last entry in the table and the procedure name was not specifically matched by any other entry in the table, RACF uses the “*” entry as a match for the procedure name. See also Generic entry in ICHRIN03.