Setting the RVARY passwords (RVARYPW option)

If you have the SPECIAL attribute, you can specify passwords that the operator must use to respond to RVARY command requests to:

Switch the RACF® databases
Change RACF status (ACTIVATE or DEACTIVATE)
Change mode (DATASHARE or NODATASHARE)

You can specify the passwords using the RVARYPW operand on the SETROPTS command. RACF allows you to specify separate passwords for switching the databases and for changing RACF status. The following example specifies HAPPY as the switch password and RABBIT as the status password:

SETROPTS RVARYPW(SWITCH(HAPPY) STATUS(RABBIT))

Password names must conform to the following rules:

Passwords can be up to 8 characters in length.
Valid characters for passwords are alphabetic uppercase A - Z, numeric (0 - 9), and national (#, @, and $).

When RACF is first initialized, the switch password and the status password are both set to YES.