If two or more systems that are not enabled for sysplex communication are sharing a RACF® database, SETROPTS REFRESH processing applies only to the system on which you issue the SETROPTS command. With this type of sharing, you must issue the SETROPTS command on all of the systems to perform REFRESH processing on all of the systems. If you do not issue the SETROPTS REFRESH command on one of the shared systems, REFRESH is performed for that system when the system re-IPLs.

On systems that are enabled for sysplex communication, issue the REFRESH command only once. If the command is successful, it is propagated to the other members of the data sharing group.

If the command fails on any of the peer systems and the system is in data sharing mode, RACF stops processing the command and backs it out of all the member systems, including the system on which it was issued.

In non-data sharing mode, the command can fail on a peer system without backing out of the other systems.