Define RMF user IDs and ensure access to z/OS UNIX System Services

At first, you should define user IDs that are associated with RMF™. We recommend to define three user IDs that relate to the three started tasks that RMF provides (of course, you may decide to define only one user ID that is assigned to all three started tasks).

Because RMF started tasks use UNIX System Services or resources, the procedures must be defined to the security program. For example, the Monitor III gatherer (RMFGAT) and the RMF Distributed Data Server (GPMSERVE) need to be defined so that they can obtain the correct data and can use the required UNIX system services.

The following example contains RACF® commands to define the three RMF user IDs, to give them an OMVS user ID (UID) and to designate the root directory as its home directory:

ALG omvsgrp OMVS(GID(2))
ADDUSER RMF      DFLTGRP(omvsgrp) OMVS(UID(nnn) HOME('/'))
ADDUSER RMFGAT   DFLTGRP(omvsgrp) OMVS(UID(nnn) HOME('/'))
ADDUSER GPMSERVE DFLTGRP(omvsgrp) OMVS(UID(nnn) HOME('/'))

In the above example, nnn can be any number, but must not be zero. For details, please refer to z/OS UNIX System Services Planning.