Refreshing global access checking lists (GLOBAL REFRESH option)

If you have the SPECIAL attribute, you can initiate the refreshing of global access checking lists by specifying the GLOBAL and REFRESH operands on the SETROPTS command. When you specify GLOBAL and REFRESH, also specify the class for which you want RACF® to refresh global access checking lists. Note that you must issue this command each time you want RACF to perform the refresh process.

To refresh the profiles, issue the SETROPTS GLOBAL(classname) REFRESH command. RACF processes classname and all classes that share the same POSIT value on their class descriptor table (CDT) entries.

The following example specifies that you want RACF to refresh global access checking lists for the DATASET and TERMINAL classes.

SETROPTS GLOBAL(DATASET TERMINAL) REFRESH

If you specify GLOBAL(*), RACF refreshes access checking lists for the DATASET class and all active classes in the class descriptor table (CDT).

If you specify NOGLOBAL, you disable global access checking for the class that you specify.

For information about SETROPTS REFRESH processing on shared systems, see Refreshing shared systems (REFRESH option).