You can use a RACF® variable as a qualifier in a profile name that has more than one qualifier. For example, a JESJOBS profile name identifies the job names to protect. It takes the form SUBMIT.nodename.jobname.userid and consists of several qualifiers. You can create a RACFVARS profile named &PROTJOB that specifies several job names as members. If you then define a JESJOBS profile called SUBMIT.*.&PROTJOB.*, the profile protects all of the member job names from any node and any user.

In a profile name, a variable name is ended by the eighth character, the end of the profile name, or one of the following characters, whichever occurs first: a period (.), another ampersand (&), a percent sign (%), or an asterisk (*).

RDEFINE RACFVARS &ABCDEFG ADDMEM(A B)

In this case, X.&ABCDEFGY.Z matches both X.AY.Z and X.BY.Z.