Authority to modify or delete resource profiles

To modify or delete a generic profile, you must meet at least one of the following criteria:

Own the profile or, for data set profiles, have a user ID that matches the high-level qualifier of the profile name
Have the SPECIAL attribute (or group-SPECIAL attribute, if applicable)

To modify a discrete profile, you must meet at least one of the following criteria:

Own the profile or, for data set profiles, have a user ID that matches the high-level qualifier of the profile name
Have the SPECIAL attribute (or group-SPECIAL attribute, if applicable)
Have ALTER authority to the profile

For complete descriptions of the required authorizations to any RACF® command, or if adding members, see the description of the command in z/OS Security Server RACF Command Language Reference.