Failures during RACF command processing

System or RACF® failures that occur during the processing of RACF commands can cause discrepancies between the various profiles on the RACF database. (For example, a failure during ADDUSER command processing can result in the user profile being created but the default group profile not being updated with the new user ID.)

In this section, the RACF commands are grouped in categories based on the operations the commands perform on the RACF database.

Note:

If RACF is running in read-only mode, you might see error messages that appear to indicate DASD problems, but are actually caused by problems with the coupling facility. See Failures using sysplex data sharing.
The operator must have a specific authority to enter some command operands. See z/OS Security Server RACF Command Language Reference for more information about these commands and their operands.